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others gradually widening. Thorax finely reticulated, the lines not raised, the axille- 
polished, not sculptured. Abdominal petiole scaly, the scutellum finely striate longitudinally 
and near apex bearing a very fine convex cross-suture distad of which it is brassy. Propo- 
deum short, with lateral carinze but the median one at base only. Apical margin of fore 
wing hyaline, the large black spot not touching the curved distal part of the submarginal 
vein as in the type species of Tomicobomorpha and is almost kite-shaped, the proximal part 
pointed. Laterad, propodeum glabrous. Pleura glabrous. Four long sete from about center 
of scutum, the first pair closer together. Long sete from cephalic margin of pronotum. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, November 1, 1913 (A.P.D.). 
Type: No. Hy 3198, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and 
a hind leg on a slide. 
The abdominal petiole in this genus seems rather to be the produced propodeum because 
the lateral carine continue without break its entire length along the lateral edge; above 
centrally it (the so-called petiole) is distinctly striated longitudinally; the postscutellum 
is a glabrous platelike sclerite followed by a transverse row of fover ard then a transverse 
ridge. The type has been re-examined; it bears a complete median carina on the propo- 
deum. Two females at Gordonvale, forest, January 4 and 6, 1914 and another from forest 
swamp, May 15, 1914 at Chindera, Tweed River, New South Wales (A. P. Dodd). 
1. TOMOCERA FLAVICEPS new species. 
Female :—A little smaller than glabriventris which it is like excepting in the follow- 
ing particulars: About the distal half of that part of the scutellum distad of the faint 
transverse suture is glabrous (in the other species only apex at meson); the fore wings are 
narrower, the fuscous spot less distinct, its distal edge over the length of the marginal vein 
from apex (about that length in the other species), the hind wings are somewhat narrower, 
the stigmal vein a little shorter, the antenna reddish brown, the club black, the fore wings 
lack a large, isolated discal bristle near caudal margin at proximal edge of the fuscous spot. 
The thorax is brassy, the legs all reddish. Head reticulated. 
Described from three females reared from a coccid, October 10, 1913 (G. F. Hill). 
Labelled ‘‘ No. 24.’’ 
Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 
Types: No. Hy 3199, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three females on a tag. 
CHEIROPACHYSIA new genus. 
Built like Cheiropachys Westwood but the legs slender and unarmed, the funicle 
5-jointed, the antennw 12-jointed with two ring-joints, the club 3-jointed. Pedicel much 
shorter than the first funicle joint. Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth broad at apex, 
its outer apical angle acute like a second tooth but the truncate mesal slope does not form 
a third tooth but is gradual. Parapsidal furrows complete, the scutellum without a cross 
furrow, the propodeum strongly tricarinate or short and noncarinate. Abdomen sessile, non- 
carinated, longer than the rest of the body, pointed conic-ovate, the segments not lengthened, 
2 longest; ovipositor only slightly exserted, the valves less so. Fore wings with a midlongi- 
tudinal black stripe from apex or hyaline, the postmarginal vein twice or more the length 
of the moderately long stigmal, nearly as long as the marginal which is only somewhat shorter 
than the submarginal. 
1. CHEIROPACHYSIA LONGIFASCIATIPENNIS new species. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 3 mm. 
Brilliant metallic purple, the scutellum, propodeum and base of abdomen metallic 
green; legs pale reddish brown, the coxze metallic basally, the trochanters and knees white. 
Seape white at base, otherwise like the legs, the club yellowish white; rest of antenne black. 
