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the latter with about five lines of cilia proximad of it. The stigmal vein is shorter, subsessile. 
Antenne as in the genotype except that the pedicel is somewhat shorter. The frons is a little 
broader. Otherwise like the genotype. 
From one female caught in forest, December 23, 1913. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3031, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of 
quadridentatus; head, fore wing and hind legs with slide type of Achrysophagus westwoodi 
Girault. 
NEZARHOPALUS new genus. 
1. NEZARHOPALUS CAUDATUS new species. Genotype. 
Like Zarhopalus Ashmead but the funicle joints not annular. 
Female :—Length, 0.60 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for three fourths the 
length of the abdomen. Slender. 
Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; legs, antenne® and ovipositor concolorous; knees, 
tips of tibie and tarsi pallid. Scape a little compressed, tapering toward tip; funicle 6 largest, 
much wider than long (not annular), over twice the width of 1, distinctly shorter than the 
usual pedicel; club enlarged, subequal to funicle in length; funicle widening rather rapidly 
distad; scape more or less equal to the funicle. Mandibles with three acute teeth. Frons 
rather narrow, prominent, the cheeks over half the leugth of the eyes. Venation pallid. Hind 
femur compressed. Thorax with a short phragma. Axillw slightly separated. Scutum a little 
longer than the scutellum. Abdomen conic-ovate, nearly as long as the thorax. Cephalic legs 
paler. Hind tibial spur minute. Fore wings densely, finely ciliate, the hairless line present, 
proximad of it, the discal cilia arranged only in two conspicuous lines. Venation as described 
for Zarhopalus Ashmead. Marginal vein punctiform, the stigmal and postmarginal very long, 
subequal. 
From one female captured July 28, 1913 in jungle (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3032, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 
NEASTEROPANUS new genus. 
Female:—Runs to Asteropeus Howard but the funicle is a little longer than the club, 
the frons is subprominent only, the postmarginal vein a little shorter than the marginal which 
is about twice longer than wide. The axilla are distinctly a little separated and the ovipositor 
extruded for a length equal to a fifth that of the abdomen. 
1, NEASTEROPUS CAUDATUS new species. Genotype. 
Female :—Length, 0.85 mm. excluding the ovipositor. 
Dark metallic purple, the scutellum green, the first two pairs of legs (except cox), the 
caudal knees and tarsi and distal half (or a little more) of caudal tibie, whitish. Funicle and 
club brownish yellow. Wings hyaline but with a dusky spot against whole of the side of the 
stigmal vein. Venation black. MHairless line of fore wing with about a half dozen lines of 
cilia proximad of it. Pedicel slightly longer than wide, longer than funicle 6 which is largest 
and a half wider than long; funicles 1-2 subequal, ring like; funicle joints enlarging distad. 
Frons moderate. Cheeks as long as the eyes, the head rounded. Mandibles with two short 
outer teeth and a third broad one, the latter truneate, the mandibles small. Scape subequal 
to the club. Hind tibial spur weak. Fore wings broad, very finely ciliate. Body sealy. 
Seutellum reaching base of abdomen. Pubescence soft, weak. Abdomen pointed, conic-ovate, 
as long as the thorax. Axille narrow. Pronotum transverse-linear. 
From one female caught by sweeping on Tweed River, May 10, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Murwillumbah, New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy 3033, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore 
wing and a hind tibia with slide type of Taneostigmoidella nympha Girauit. 
