186 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
GENUS SEMIOTELLUS Westwood. 
1. SEMIOTELLUS DICE (Walker). 
Miscogaster dice Walker, male, 1839, p. 24. 
2. SEMIOTELLUS THEOPE (Walker). Male; female. 
Miscogaster theope Walker, 1839, p. 25. 
GENUS ASEMANTUS Foerster. 
1. ASEMANTUS CECIDOMYIZ Ashmead. Female; male. 
Length, 2.4 mm. Metallic bronzed green, finely, closely punctate; head with some 
thimble-like punctures along anterior orbits and on vertex; mesopleura blue, almost smooth; 
scrobes distinct, semicircular; antenne brown-black, scape zneous black, flagellum subclavate, 
sparsely pubescent, funicle joints longer than thick. Parapsidal furrows distinct, entire; 
thorax abruptly truncate anteriorly, the pronotum not visible from above except slightly at 
lateral angles; scutellum large, axille widely separated. Legs yellow, coxe except at tips, 
metallic; trochanters, tarsi and tibie yellowish white. Wings hyaline; marginal, postmarginal 
and stigmal veins light brown, the marginal being very long, fully four fifths the length of 
submarginal vein; postmarginal half the length of marginal; stigma! a little shorter than the 
marginal and ending in a rounded knob. Abdomen conically elongate and about one third 
longer than head and thorax united. 
Male measures 1.8 mm. Blue to bluish green; flagellum long, filiform, the joints more 
than twice as long as thick, the first and second fully thrice as long as thick; legs, except 
middle and hind coxe#, wholly yellow; abdomen oblong, depressed and scarcely as long as 
thorax. 
Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. On Cecidomyia frauenfeldti. 
Type: No. 4888, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 
Genus SYSTASIS Walker. 
This genus is similar to Paruriella of the Pteromalide. 
1. SYSTASIS VARIPES new species. 
Female :—Length, 2 mm. 
Afneous green, the wings hyaline, the coxe, first two pairs of femora at middle ventrad 
and hind femur except at apex, concolorous, also the antenne. Legs otherwise reddish brown 
including the trochanters, the tips of tibia and tarsi white. Vertex with shallow thimble 
punctures, rest of head scaly. Abdomen darker. Funicle joints subequal, 5 quadrate, barely 
shorter than 1, the latter a little shorter than the pedicel, slightly longer than wide. Mandibles. 
tridentate, maxillary palpi white. Club 1 quadrate. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the 
stigmal. Thorax densely, rather finely punctate, the scutum and scutellum with traces of 
obscure larger punctures. Propodeum moderate in length, distinctly tricarinate, the lateral 
carina at apex running strongly mesad along caudal margin and also laterad and so up 
lateral margin but more weakly. Abdomen longer than the thorax, scaly. 
From one female from the Queensland Museum collections, October 11, H. Hacker, 
collector. 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2164, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; hind tibie 
and head on a slide. 
