192 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
1. HABRITELLA GRACILIVENTRIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 
Female :—Length, 1.70 mm. 
Dark metallic blue, the cox and femora concolorous; second and third segments of 
abdomen brilliant blue-green; knees, tibiew, tarsi and antennal scape golden yellow; rest 
of antenne black. Wings hyaline, the venation fuscous. Thorax, including propodeum, densely 
punctate; the abdomen smooth. Pedicel slightly longer than first funicle joint which is a little 
longer than wide; 5 quadrate; club no longer than two preceding joints united, the first two 
joints subequal, the third shorter. Abdomen slender, narrower than the thorax. 
Described from one female caught by sweeping in forest, summit of second coast range,. 
1,500 feet, May 29, 1913 (A. A. Girault). 
Habitat: Northern Queensland (Gordonvale near Cairns). 
Type: No. Hy 3175, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head and hind 
“legs on a slide. 
GENUS AMICROMEULUS Girault. 
This genus belongs here, not where formerly placed. 
Similar to Micromelus Walker but funicle 1 is a little longer than the pedicel, segment 
2 of abdomen not more than a fifth the length of the abdomen, the antennz only 12-jointed,. 
the club but 2-jointed the second joint terminating in a distinct spur. Marginal vein longer 
than the stigmal, the abdomen longer than the thorax, the ovipositor not exserted. Propodeum 
with a fovea on each side at cephalic margin midway between the meson and the oval spiracle. 
1. AMICROMELUS CYANEUS Girault. Genotype. 
Female :—Length, 2.20 mm. 
Dark metallic blue, the abdomen above dark coppery, the wings hyaline, the venation 
pale; coxee and femora concolorous, the knees, tibiz and tarsi pale, nearly white; thorax with 
a white pubescence somewhat as in Aplastomorpha. Head and thorax densely punctate, including 
the propodeum; abdomen microscopically sculptured. Antenne capitate, the distal funicle joint 
just a little longer than wide, the whole dusky brownish, the club brown. Corrected description. 
Described from three females captured by sweeping in a forest, May 5, 1913. 
Tabitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3178, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one of the above on a tag and a 
slide with parts of the others and the appendages. 
There are two ring-joints and no carine on the propodeum. Mandibles 3- and 4-dentate,. 
the 3-dentate one with its third tooth broad, incised at middle. Antenne inserted slightly 
below the middle of the face, the scape very long, slender. Types re-examined. Compare 
Neocaudonia Dodd of the Cleonymine. 
SuBFAMILY PIRENINA. 
GENUS APIRENE Girault. 
Head somewhat wider than long (cephalic aspect), the antenne inserted high up, above 
the middle of the face, the scape extending above the vertex—11-jointed with two ring-joints, 
the club solid and terminating in a nipple-like projection, the funicle joints long, the first 
plainly more than twice the length of the short pedicel and twice the length of the distal funicle 
joint. Maxillary palpi with at least three joints. Postmarginal and stigmal veins well 
developed, the former a third longer. Parapsidal furrows obscure, only about half complete 
(from cephalad). Abdomen subsessile, ovate, depressed above, produced ventrad beneath, 
the ovipositor not exserted. Propodeum with neither spiracular sulci nor carina, the spiracle 
not large, oblong. Second abdominal segment longest. Posterior tibiew with two spurs. 
