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margin just before tip. Pedicel small, hardly longer than wide, yet somewhat longer than any 
of the funicle joints which are all distinctly wider than long, 2 and 3 a little the longest, 6 
widest, all hispid; ring-joint present. Hind tibial spurs double. Stigmal vein long, curved, 
over twice the length of the marginal, the postmarginal longer than the marginal. Many lines 
of discal cilia (over a dozen) proximad of hairless line. Whole body with a frosted appearance, 
subglaucous, extraordinarily finely scaly reticulate. Cheeks somewhat over half the length of the 
eyes. Scutellum reaching base of abdomen, the axilla distinctly separated by a short triangular 
projection at apex of scutum but they are not very wide apart. Thorax with scattered, short 
white pubescence. Vertex sloping; face inflexed. Wings hyaline. 
From one female caught by sweeping forest. 
Habitat: Gordonyvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3005, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; fore wings, 
hind tibia and head on a slide. 
COPIDOSOMOPSIS new genus. 
Female:—Form small, the thorax very convex, globular, the abdomen rather distinctly 
narrower than it and somewhat longer, narrow-triangular. Agrees otherwise with the description 
of Copidosomyia but the frons is broad, the cheeks longer than the eyes, the scrobes long. 
Also the marginal vein is punctiform, the postmarginal absent, the stigmal twice longer than 
the marginal. Mandibles rather long, with three acute, small teeth, of which the middle is the 
iongest. Axille distinctly separated for a short distance. Marginal vein thickened, almost 
eireular. 
1. COPIDOSOMOPSIS PERMINUTUS new species. 
Female :—Length, 0.70 mm. 
Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline; scape, middle legs (except coxe), tarsi and tips 
of hind tibiw# broadly (cephalic tibie not seen), yellow. Funicle 1 distinctly longer than wide, 
subequal to the pedicel, the following joints quadrate, the distal three a little wider than long. 
Head and thorax finely scaly. Club no thicker than the funicle and shorter. Very few sete 
proximad of hairless line of fore wing, the line not very definitely bounded by a single line 
of cilia. 
From one female, all remaining out of 2,120 reared from a ‘‘ pyrale larva,’’ April 23, 
1914 (F. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3006, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; fore wing, 
head and fragments of antenne on a slide. 
BLATTICIDA new genus. 
1. BLATTICIDA ASHMEADI new species. Genotype. 
Female :—Length, 1.25 mm. 
Very dark metallic blue, the wings hyaline, the scutellum contrasting metallic green, 
the Jegs and antenne rich yellowish brown but the much enlarged club black. Head and thorax 
delicately scaly with obscure setigerous punctures (in rows on the vertex), the scutum pilose; 
seutellum densely punctate. Mandibles with three small teeth, the inner tooth shorter. Funicle 
joints annular. Axille slightly separated. Scape distinctly dilated for its entire length, not 
long, the pedicel a little longer than wide yet much longer than any of the funicle joints which 
do not differ much in length (4 and 5 shortest) but 6 is twice wider than 1. Club as long as 
the funicle and pedicel united, obliquely truncate, over twice the width of funicle 6, the 
flagellum strongly capitate. Face strongly inflexed, the vertex and frons moderately narrow 
but over thrice the diameter of the cephalic ocellus, the lateral ocelli oblique and against the 
eyes. Metapleura bare, the body pubescence not conspicuous. Marginal vein somewhat over 
twice longer than wide, the stigmal shorter than it by a fourth or more, the postmarginal vein 
