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shorter than the pedicel, which is a little longer than wide. Club apparently with a minute 
apical fourth joint (excluding this, antennew 13-jointed with two ring-joints). 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, December 2, 1912 (A. P. 
Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3172, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the 
head and a hind leg on a slide. 
A second female, type habitat, May 27, 1914. 
Trine METASTENINI. 
METASTENOIDES new genus. 
Form short, robust, the head large, from cephalic aspect rounded, the antennz inserted 
in the middle of the face, 13-jointed, three ring and club joints. Clypeus emarginate at meson. 
Mandibles 3- and 4-dentate. Postmarginal and stigmal veins long, the former longer than the 
latter, nearly as long as the rather short marginal. Scutellum simple. Pronotum distinct, 
transverse. Propodeum conical, without a median carina, the lateral carine present and a 
foveate, irregular, short spiracular sulcus, the spiracle narrow, long-reniform. A large transverse 
fovea at cephalic margin of propodeum just mesad of lateral carina. Abdomen short, depressed 
ovate, the second segment longest, occupying a little less than a fourth of the surface, the 
others shorter but not transverse-linear. 
1. METASTENOIDES SIMUS new species. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 2.70 mm. 
Bronze, the wings hyaline, the abdomen dark green, legs (except the concolorous hind 
coxa, others not noted) reddish; the knees, tips of tibize and tarsi white. Antenne reddish, 
the first funicle joint longer than the pedicel, longest of the funicle, the others shortening, 
joint 1 nearly twice longer than wide; funicle 5 slightly longer than wide. Scape long and 
slender. Head and thorax densely punctate. Distal half of hind tibiz white. 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Jungle, September 15, 1913. 
Type: No. Hy 3173, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the hind tibiz and 
antenn on a slide. 
GENUS ARTHROLYSIS Foerster. 
1. ARTHROLYSIS FLAVIVENTRIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female. 
Length, 3.25 mm. 
Head and thorax dark metallic blue, the cephalic coxe concolorous; anterior femora 
black-brown; rest of legs golden yellow; abdomen with a longitudinal stripe running down 
each lateral margin from base to two thirds length and a median stripe from one sixth length 
to two thirds length, brown; apex of abdomen black, rest golden yellow; antennz wholly 
brownish yellow. Wings hyaline, long and broad, the venation yellow; marginal vein one 
third longer than postmarginal, the latter twice as long as the rather long stigmal vein. 
Abdomen conic-ovate, depressed above, convex beneath, as long as the head and thorax 
combined, its second segment occupying one fourth of the surface, 3 and 4 subequal, together 
equal to 2, 4-6 gradually lengthening, 6 as long as 2. Pronotum distinctly separated ; 
parapsidal furrows only indicated anteriorly; scutellum as long as wide, simple; propodeum 
moderate in length, punctate, without carine or sulci. Thorax densely umbilicately punctate 
and with a few seattered hairs. Mandibles 4-dentate. Antenne inserted about on the middle 
of the face, 13-jointed with two ring-, three club joints; pedicel distinctly longer than wide, 
