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margin carinated; propodeal spiracle minute, laterad of the lateral carina. Abdomen glabrous. 
Propodeum black. Club larger than the funicle but only about half its length, obliquely 
truneate; pedicel a little over twice longer than wide at apex, a little longer than funicle 1 
which is longest, the following joints shortening and widening gradually to the club, 4 
subquadrate, 5 and 6 somewhat wider than long. Hind tibial spurs double. Cheeks two thirds 
the length of the eyes. Antenne well clothed; pubescence on thoracic dorsum present but 
not vonspicuous yet from lateral aspect rather dense. Scutellum more coarsely scaly than rest 
of thorax. Mesopleurum densely, distinctly punctate, smooth at extreme cephalic end. Head 
impunctate but a row of fine punctures across the vertex by the eye margins. 
From one female caught May 19, 1913 by sweeping in jungle (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3185, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and a 
hind leg on a slide. 
2. PARASTENOTERYS VARIPES new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.50 mm. 
Black or nearly, the scutellum metallic blue, the abdomen dark coppery, green at base. 
Fore wings lightly stained yellowish under marginal vein, the venation pale. All coxe and 
cephalic legs except the tarsi and each end of the tibiz, concolorous; rest of legs reddish brown. 
Scape reddish brown except the bulla which is concolorous; rest of antenne black, except the 
yellowish apex of pedicel. Wings hyaline. Pedicel somewhat longer than wide at apex, some- 
what longer than any of the funicle joints which thicken a little distad but are subequal, a 
little longer than wide; club two thirds the length of the funicle and distinctly much wider, 
conic-ovate. Hairless line rather obscure, with about five lines of cilia proximad of it. 
Marginal vein about five times longer than wide, the postmarginal a little longer than the 
stigmal which is two thirds the length of the marginal or a little longer. The smaller spur of 
hind tibia no longer than the apical sete but distinctly stouter. Head somewhat longer than 
wide. Seutum polygonally scaly and with pilosity; axille more finely scaly, the scutellum 
like the axille but the scaliness has a longitudinal trend. Meson of propodeum with oblique 
ruge. Segment 2 of abdomen occupying a third of the surface, much longer than any of the 
other segments. Face rather much inflexed, frons not prominent, the scrobes as in the genotype. 
Ovipositor slightly extruded. Otherwise as in the genotype. 
From one female caught May 4, 1914 in jungle near Tweed River (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Tweed Heads, New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy 8137, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, a pair 
of wings and hind tibie with slide type of Hetromomyiella articulus Girault. 
PARATETRACNEMOIDEA new genus. 
Female :—Difters from Tetracnemoidea Howard in that the venation does not reach 
the costal margin, the marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal absent, the stigmal short 
but distinct, clavate, about twice longer than wide. Mandibles with two unequal, acute teeth. 
Carina on epistoma not distinct; the thorax is globular, the axille separated a short distance; 
abdomen very short, depressed, pointed triangular, shorter than the thorax, the ovipositor 
extruded a short distance. Fore wing extending well beyond the body. Scutellum overhanging 
the short propodeum, convex, globular from dorsal aspect. 
1. PARATETRACNEMOIDEA BREVIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. 
Female :—Length, 0.70 mm. Very short but rather robust. Dark metallic purple, the 
legs and scape except at apex, rich yellow-brown, the cox mostly concolorous with the body. 
Antenne inserted at the elypeus, the flagellum spear-shaped, the scrobes long, the scape 
slender; pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 1 which is longest, somewhat longer than wide, 
2 somewhat shorter than 1, a little longer than wide, 3 and 4 quadrate, 5 and 6 wider and 
