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axille distinctly separated for some distance; knees, tarsi and tips of tibie yellowish white. 
Joints 5 and 6 of funicle white, 5 suffused with dusky; distal two club joints suffused with 
whitish. Fore wings sooty from the bend of the submarginal vein distad to apex, the sootiness 
broken by the oblique hairless line and by six rounded spots—two eggshaped ones facing each 
other in the center of the blade just before apex; two larger rounded ones, one at apex of 
venation at cephalic margin, one at caudal margin somewhat distad of a point opposite the 
first; a similar spot opposite the marginal vein at caudal third, one end against the oblique 
hairless line; and the sixth (smallest) one between the oblique hairless line and venation, 
in the angle subtended by them. Scape distinctly dilated (compressed) ventrad but the 
convexity not very great; pedicel a little longer than wide, somewhat longer than funicle 6 which 
is longest of the funicle, yet wider than long; funicle joints 1-4 short, twice longer than wide, 4 
a little the longest, 5 twice the length of 4, a little smaller than 6. Club conic-ovate, nearly 
as long as the funicle. Second tooth of mandible truncate. Marginal vein a little over thrice 
longer than broad, the postmarginal subobsolete, the stigmal vein short, colorless, the fuscous 
patch just cephalad of the hyaline spot at apex of the black marginal vein, distinctly darker. 
Discal ciliation of fore wings extremely fine and dense, the marginal ciliation short. Frons 
moderate, the antenne 11-jointed, inserted about on a level with the ventral ends of the eyes. 
Head (cephalic aspect) rounded. Pubescence not conspicuous, very sparse, no ring-joint. 
Scrobes distinct, moderate. Cheeks nearly as long as the eyes. 
From one female caught by sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, December 2, 1912 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3134, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and a 
fore wing on a slide. 
Later, a female was found from Ayr, Queensland, captured November 6, 1912 by 
Sweeping in natural forest. In this specimen all of funicle 5 was white. 
Also a female from Cloncurry, forest, April 18, 1914 (A. P. Dodd); one from Chindera, 
New South Wales (forest, sand-ridges near coast), May 9, 1914 (A. P. Dodd); and one at 
Capeville (Pentland), Queensland, forest, September 10, 1914. 
PARASTENOTERYS new genus 
Female:—In Ashmead’s (1904) table of genera running to the second part ot couplet 
15 but differs from the included genera in having the axille distinctly separated yet not for 
a great distance. The flagellum is strongly clavate, the vertex and frons moderate (neither 
broad nor especially narrow), the scrobes deep, tolerably long, not joined above but separated 
by a distinct ridge from the base of the antenne. From cephalic aspect, the head is longer 
{han wide. Marginal vein of fore wing a little over thrice longer than wide, the postmarginal 
“nd stigmal veins subequal, each about two thirds the length of the marginal. Oblique hairless 
line and marginal cilia present, the former narrow. Abdomen not as long as the thorax, 
pointed, depressed, the second segment occupying over a third of the surface, the others short, 
trausverse. Ovipositor not exserted. Propodeum large. Mandibles with two equal, acute 
teeth. 
1. PARASTENOTERYS PUNCTATUS new species. Genotype. . 
Female :—Length, 1.33 mm. 
Metallic purple, the scutellum rosaceous coppery; legs except the concolorous hind coxe 
and the scape reddish or yellowish brown, the distal two club joints yellowish white. Fore 
wings distinctly embrowned from a little out from base to apex but with a midlongitudinal 
hyaline line from apex to proximal third. Thorax very finely scaly, the pronotum, scutum, 
axille and scutellum with numerous, distinct, but not large, setigerous punctures. All of the 
mesal part of propodeum foveolate, farther laterad smooth, with a lateral carina and the lateral 
