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fine circular strie, glabrous ventrad of the antenne; lateral ocelli very distant from the 
eye margins; scrobicular cavity with its lateral margins noncarinate; a tubercle at latero- 
cephalic aspect of pronotum. Scutellum between and behind the axille (at the meson) sunken. 
Abdominal petiole longitudinally striate. Cephalic part of thorax dorsad (cephalad of the 
middle of the seutum) coarsely reticulate as is also much of the scutelum. Base of propodeum 
with deep transverse fover, the region with lateral grooves. Caudal half of seutum practically 
smooth. 
Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. Reared from ants, July, 1902. 
Types: No. Hy 1195, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three females on a card, a head 
on a Slide. 
2. EPIMETAGEA MAGNIFICA (Girault). Female. 
Astilbula magnifica Girault. 
Length, 3.95 mm. Robust. 
Brilliant metallic wneous-green, the abdomen shining, the scutum transversely striate, 
the scutellum longitudinally so, both more or less irregularly; scutellum with a weak median 
carina. Wings hyaline. Petiole roughened. Venation brown. Legs straw yellow brown, the 
coxe and most of the femora concolorous; also antenne but the scape and pedicel brownish. 
Club joint next longest of the flagellum. 
Habitat: National Park, New South Wales. 
Type: No. I. 1287, South Australian Museum, a female on a card, the head on a slide. 
3. EPIMETAGEA PURPUREICORPUS new name. Female. ° 
Astilbula purpura Girault. 
Length, 3.75 mm. 
Metallic purplish, the abdomen much darker; knees, tarsi and tibiw straw yellow, the 
first three antennal joints brownish; wings hyaline, the venation brown. Femora and coxe 
concolorous. Sculptured as in magnifica. Joints of funicle after the first cup-shaped or nearly, 
erected on thick peduncles; first funicle joint cylindrical, long. Abdomen ascending. Mandibles 
dentated as in the preceding (%.e., regarding number of teeth). 
Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. 
Type: No. I. 1288, South Australian Museum, the specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. 
4, EPIMETAGEA ZENEA (Girault). Male. 
Astilbula enea Girault. 
Length, 4.75 mm. 
Dark eneous green, the head and scutum with purplish; abdomen beneath mesad and 
the legs, except coxee, yellowish brown, the scape and pedicel pale; petiole of abdomen and 
cox blackish. Fore wings with a sooty blotch under the stigmal vein (continued attenuatingly 
proximad) and another opposite to the first (continued proximad more distinctly). Thorax 
rugose and transversely lined, the scutellum with the lines longitudinal, the base of the 
prong-like process about twice longer than its least width, longitudinally striate. Hind outer 
angle of each parapside produced laterad into a platelike tooth. Head finely circularly striate, 
the lower half of the face glabrous. Propodeum with a lateral groove. Antenne 12-jointed, 
no ring-joints, eight long branches from joints 2-9, all from the same side; funicle 1 twice 
the length of the pedicel, 2 a little shorter than the pedicel, transverse, 3 a little wider than 
long, 4-9 gradually increasing in length, 9 being distinctly longer than 1; club very long, 
much over twice the length of the distal funicle joint. Petiole thrice the length of the hind 
COXe. 
* Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, May 9. 
Lype: No. ily 5283, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Tag and slide. 
The type has been re-examined. 
