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not longer than wide; oblique hairless line present, the marginal fringes very short, the discal 
ciliation fine and dense. Propodeum transverse at meson, widening laterad. Antenne 12-jointed, 
a very short ring-joint being present. Cheeks not much more than half the length of the eyes. 
Hind tibial spur single. Abdomen a little shorter than the thorax, depressed, triangular, the 
ovipositor just tipping it. 
Male:—The same but the frons is broad, the lateral ocelli a little separated from the 
eyes while the antenne are filiform, wholly colored like the legs and the club is solid. Scape 
not as distinctly swollen; funicle joints subglobular and much longer than the pedicel excepting 
funicle 1 which is much longer than wide. Funicle joints bristly, the bristles not very long. 
From one male, five females reared from eggcases of a native cockroach from the jungle 
and in company with Hutrichosomella blattophaga Girault, February, 1914 (A. P. Dodd), 
Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. 
Types: No. Hy 3007, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male, five females on a tag, 
one female, one male and female head on a slide with type of Hutrichosomella blattophaga. 
Of the above eggcases, two were parasitized, the parasites issuing from both ends by 
way of two perfectly circular holes, one at each end and on opposite sides of the dorsal ridge 
of the eggcase. The eggcases are rather small, of a greyish color, the bottom and bottom sides 
and a longitudinal stripe somewhat below the dorsal edge abbreviated at each end and 
interrupted once beyond or before the middle, dark reddish brown. 
Subsequently a female was found in a bottle labelled ‘‘Gordonvale, sweeping grass, 
forest, April 10, 1912.’’ In this specimen the cephalic knees were dusky. 
NEOCOPIDOSOMYTA new genus. 
Female :—Differs from Copidosomyia Girault in that the head (cephalic aspect) is 
rounded and a little wider than long, not ovate and plainly longer than wide. Also, the frons 
is twice broader and the scrobes normal, forming a deep triangle, the face inflexed. The 
antenna has a short ring-joint. Axille slightly separated. Abdomen as long as the thorax, the 
ovipositor not exserted. Second segment of abdomen occupying only a fourth of the surface. 
Outer two teeth of mandibles distinctly longer than the inner. Otherwise as described for 
Copidosomyia. 
1. NEOCOPIDOSOMYIA VIRIDISCUTELLUM new species. Genotype. 
Female:—Length, 1.90 mm. Robust. 
Purplish black, the seutellum dark metallic green, the fore wing lightly embrowned from 
the bend of the submarginal vein to apex or nearly so; distal half of tibize and the tarsi 
yellowish brown. Antenne concolorous, scape a little compressed, excised ventrad at tip; 
pedicel one and a fourth times longer than wide at apex, subequal to funicle 1 which is 
distinctly longer than wide, the longest, 2 a little longer than wide, 5 and 6 distinctly wider 
than long. Club obliquely truncate, not more than half the length of the funicle. Cephalic 
ocellus about twice its diameter from either eye. Head densely finely scaiy, the vertex with 
obseure, small punctures. Scutum sculptured like the vertex but the scutellum densely 
punctulate. Abdomen scaly like the scutum but without the punctures. Pubescence incon- 
spicuous. A darker spot against the marginal and proximal two thirds of stigmal veins. 
Marginal vein somewhat less than twice longer than wide. Oblique hairless line narrow. 
Mesopleura finely, longitudinally scaly and lined. Hind tibial spur single. 
From four females on a card labelled ‘‘ Apr. 24, 1903. F. P. Dodd.’’ 
Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. 
Types: No. Hy 3008, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, four females on a card; head, 
portion of fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 
Later, another card with seven females, one male was found bearing the same data and 
a flower-like case of what appeared to be a fulgorid, the host. The male was broken but as 
far as could be seen resembled the female except that the frons was broader and the funicle 
more hairy. 
