168 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
‘eyes. Frons with some punctures; scutum finely scaly, the scutellum glabrous; scutum with 
numerous obscure setigerous punctures, the seutellum with only few. Avxille separated for a 
short distance. 
From three females caught May 28, 1913 by sweeping jungle. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
' Type: No. Hy 3139, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one specimen on a tag; head, a 
wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 
PARALEPTOMASTIX new genus. 
Female:—Form robust, the head lenticular, narrowed ventrad of the face, the mandibles 
not large, with two acute teeth, the second tooth much shorter than the first, from lateral 
aspect acute. Frons broad, the cheeks over half the length of the eyes; scrobes very short. 
Fourth joint of maxillary palpus elongate. Antenne slenderly clavate, the scape slender but 
normal, the first funicle joint elongate, the club short, ovate, its first two joints much wider 
than long, together forming only about a third of the length. Marginal vein about thrice 
longer than wide, the postmarginal elongate, over two and a half times the length of the 
marginal, the stigmal long, curved, one and two third times longer than the marginal. Costal 
cell large. Hind legs (including first tarsal joint, excluding coxa) compressed, the femur 
along distal half ventrad with a narrow colorless membranous exfoliation; two tibial spurs. 
Ovipositor not exserted, the abdomen much smaller than the thorax. Pronotum transverse. 
Axille meeting. 
1. PARALEPTOMASTIX THOREAUINI new species. Genotype. 
Female :—Length, about 2.30 mm. 
Dark metallic green with bluish tinges, the abdomen and hind legs black-blue, the first 
two pairs of legs and antenne reddish brown; antennal club black. Venation dusky black, 
the fore wing with a large, diamond-shaped smoky area suspended from the distal half of 
-stigmal vein and reaching nearly to caudal margin, its apex distad and extending to a point 
beyond apex of the postmarginal vein. The area is divided longitudinally nearly into two 
equal halves by a clear line. 
Head densely punctulate. Seutum finely scaly, pilose. Scutellum longitudinally 
lineolated. Axilla with a short carina between them. Oblique hairless line with over a dozen 
lines of coarser cilia proximad of it. Club shorter than funicle 1 which is distinctly twice 
longer than the normal pedicel; funicle 2 a little over half the length of 1, distinctly longer 
than the pedicel, 4 and 5 subequal, each slightly longer than wide, 6 a little wider than long. 
Joint 1 of maxillary palpus black. 
From one female taken November 19, 1913 (H. Hacker). 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3140, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore 
wing and a hind leg on a slide. 
PARATETRALOPHIDEA new genus. 
Female:—In Ashmead’s (1904) table of genera runs to Calocerinus Howard but the 
scape is distinctly but not greatly dilated, foliaceously widening toward apex. Head a little 
longer than wide, the second tooth of mandible broadly truncate, the cheeks not quite as long 
as the eyes, the scrobes tolerably short, forming more or less of a semicirele, the face sub- 
lenticular; frons tolerably narrow. Antenne inserted not far above the clypeus, clavate, 
12-jointed with one short ring-joint, the club short and stout, compressed, about a third the 
length of the funicle; pedicel subequal to funicle 3, the distal three funicle joints wider thaa 
long. ‘Axille broadly joined. Marginal vein about four times longer than wide, the stigmal 
a fourth shorter than it, the postmarginal just developed. Oblique hairless line present. Fore 
