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than 1 which is plainly longer than wide. Scape metallic. Postmarginal vein as long as the 
stigmal. Scape short. Pronotum transverse (without the head, rather large, conical). Antenna 
inserted a little above ventral ends of the eyes. First femora slightly swollen, simple. 
Described from one female reared from galls on young gum trees, March, 1911 (F. P- 
Spry). 
Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. 
Type: No. Hy 3208, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head, 
a fore leg and a hind tibia on a slide. 
GENUS APHOTISMUS Girault. 
Agreeing with Photismus Walker but the abdomen with a very short petiole, its body 
_ compressed, appearing sublinear from dorsal aspect and large and round from lateral aspect, 
the ovipositor hidden. Head from cephalic aspect subrectangular, a little wider than long, 
the antenne inserted slightly above the ventral ends of the eyes, 13-jointed with one ring- 
joint and a 3-jointed club. Pronotum transverse; parapsidal furrows complete, the scutellum 
simple but with a cross-groove, the median carina of propodeum weak, the spiracle small, 
round. Marginal, stigmal and postmarginal veins about equal, the first and last a little 
longer, the fore wing with a longitudinal, suberescentic, fuscous band extending from apex 
of submarginal vein to apex of stigmal. Mandibles bidentate but the second tooth broad, its: 
apex concayely emarginate. Posterior femora much swollen and with a large triangular tooth 
beneath near apex whose distal margin is minutely serrulate; cephalic femora also swollen 
but simple. Hind tibie with two spurs. ' 
1. APHOTISMUS NIGER Girault. Female; male. Genotype. 
Length, 1.85 mm. 
Shining black, the tibiz and tarsi lemon yellow, also the distal third of cephalic femora; 
antenne concolorous, the funicle joints transverse, the first only twice the size of the ring- 
joint, the others wider, all shorter than the pedicel; flagellum short, clavate. Thorax finely, 
transversely lined and polygonally reticulated and with obscure thimble punctures. Short and 
stout. The male is about the same. 
Habitat: Adelaide, South Australia. From galls on Caswarina. 
Type: No. I. 1337, South Australian Museum. 
_ TOMICOBOMORPHELLA new genus. 
Head triangular, the antennz inserted at the clypeus, clavate, the club solid, the scape 
dilated but not very greatly, the first two funicle joints like ring-joints, the others all wider 
than long, widening distad. Mandibles tridentate. One spur of caudal tibiz very short, the 
other large but not especially long. Postmarginal and stigmal veins elongate, the former 
somewhat longer, nearly as long as the marginal. Parapsidal furrows complete, shallow. 
Pronotum transverse. Scutellum simple. Propodeum conical, nonearinate. Postseutellum 
rounded triangular, platelike. Abdomen sessile, depressed, conic-ovate, noncarinate, subequal 
to the thorax, segments 2 and 3 large, together occupying not quite half the surface, 2 the 
larger. Cephalic femur swollen but simple; caudal femur stout, simple. Club obliquely 
truncate. Antenne 11-jointed. 
1. TOMICOBOMORPHELLA JUSTICIA new species. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 2 mm. 
Dark metallic green, the scutellum, propodeum and abdomen dark ecoppery purple, 
the wings subhyaline or but very slightly yellowish; legs concolorous except the knees broadly, 
tips of tibiae and the tarsi which together with the funicle and club are rich reddish brown 
