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subflaviceps only the second joint of the funicle is white. Mesonotum clothed with short white 
pubescence. Legs pale yellowish. Ovipositor only slightly exserted. The short ring-joint is 
present. The extreme tip of the scape is black in all three species. The ovipositor in mirus is 
barely exserted. Scape colored as in the other species. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping miscellaneous vegetation along the 
left bank of the Pioneer River, October 21, 1911. 
Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3090, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag; the 
head and a hind leg on a slide. 
A second female from virgin jungle, Malanda, Northern Queensland, December 31, 1911. 
4. EPIDINOCARSIS FUSCIVENTRIS new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.80 mm. : 
Orange yellow, the face of pronotum, ventral margin of the face and the antenna jet 
black; wings hyaline; legs white; cox, abdomen and metapleura, brownish black; pronotum 
silvery white, also an oval spot in center of propodeum with a black dot in its center. Tegule 
silvery. An inverted conspicuous, tau-shaped marking on each side of scape at apex silvery 
white. Eyes hairy. A quadrate, white dot on scape at base. Mandibles with two acute teeth. 
Funicle 1 about four times longer than wide, somewhat longer than the pedicel; 2-4 subequal to 
eacn other and to the pedicel, 6 somewhat longer than wide; club longer than distal two funicle 
joints together. Caudal tibial spurs double. Frons moderate. Cheeks not half the length of 
the eyes. Ring-joint present. Oblique hairless line of fore wing closed at both ends; the 
numerous cilia proximad of it no coarser than the main ciliation; marginal vein four times 
longer than wide, a little shorter than the long stigmal, the latter a little shorter than the 
postmarginal. Scutum and prothorax with short silvery pubescence. Postscutellum lemon 
yellow, laterad the propodeum concolorous with abdomen. Head and thorax extraordinarily, 
finely, densely, pin-punctured and also the dorsal surface of the abdomen. Venation rather 
abnormal. Axille distinctly separated for some distance. 
From one female taken by sweeping, May 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy 3091, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; fore wing, 
caudal tibie and head on a slide. 
5. EPIDINOCARSIS AURATISCUTUM new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.25 mm. 
Like tricolor but differing as follows: The large, black spot on scutellum is absent, the 
mesopleurum is purplish black while the distal half of dorsum of the honey yellow abdomen 
is not black, the extreme tip of abdomen silvery white. The funicle joints are all a little 
shorter. Postmarginal vein hardly developed, the stigmal somewhat shorter than the marginal. 
Otherwise the same. 
From one female caught sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, December 4, 1915. 
Habitat: Gordonvyale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3092, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and a 
fore wing on a slide. 
6. EPIDINOCARSIS CUNEINOTA new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.80 mm., including the ovipositor which is shortly extruded, black, 
white at base. 
Differs from tricolor only in having the postmarginal vein a little over a third the length 
of the stigmal and in bearing a long conical black marking on seutum from base nearly to 
apex, the base of this marking fitting the broad mesal black of the pronotum which widens. 
rapidly from it; hence the base of the marking is but moderately broad, the whole a little 
