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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
5. ISOSOMA AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. Male. 
Length, 2.85 mm. 
Black, the antenne and legs concolorous except most of cephalic legs, which are 
brownish and the knees, tips of tibize and the tarsi of the others; wings hyaline, the venation 
very pale, the stigmal and postmarginal veins about equal; scape very short; abdomen long 
and cylindrical, the third segment a little the longest, the whole surface of the abdomen with 
a very fine, scaly sculpture; propodeum with a median sulcus which has two longitudinal lines 
of fover down it, rugose, the mesothorax uniformly opaque, finely scaly. Antenne 10-jointed 
with one ring-joint, the club 2-jointed, the first funicle joint longest, longer than the scape, 
the other four joints of the funicle each a little shorter than the one preceding; the whorls of 
long hairs white. 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Jungle, December 18, 1912. 
Type: No. Hy 3276, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the male on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
6. ISOSOMA WORDSWORTHI new species. 
Female :—Length, 2.60 mm. 
Black, the wings hyaline, the knees, tips of tibiz and tarsi brownish, also the scape, the 
flagellum black. Venation pallid, the postmarginal vein somewhat shorter than the stigmal, 
the latter very slightly shorter than the marginal. Hind tibial spurs unequal. Ring-joint 
longer than wide; funicle 1 not elongate, somewhat longer than wide, somewhat longer than the 
short pedicel; funicles 2 and 3 subequal, a little shorter than 1, 5 globular. Club solid, ovate, 
longer than the two preceding joints united. Propleurum with an oval lemon yellow spot 
cephalad. Segment 3 of abdomen transverse-linear, shortest, a third the length of 4; other 
segments subequal, all with a scaly sculpture except 2 and 3, this sculpture on the cephalic half 
of each segment. Thorax densely scaly, the propodeum subrugulose, without a distinct median 
channel or impression but one is indicated by a pair of separated, more or less obscure, median 
carine. A few shallow umbilicate punctures on axille and caudal scutum and also on seutellum. 
Parapsidal furrows ending laterad before the pronotum. Axille a little separated. 
From one female caught by sweeping secondary forest growth, May 23, 1914. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3277, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
Dedicated to Wiliam Wordsworth. 
TrisE RILEYINI. 
NEORILEYELLA new genus. 
Female :—Like Neorileya Ashmead but the parapsidal furrows complete, the axille 
large, nearly meeting inwardly, the marginal vein long, over one and a half times longer than 
the stigmal which is slightly longer than the postmarginal, the fore wings with a pattern. 
The abdomen is compressed, subsessile. Scutellum without a transverse suture but with at 
least more than the distal third differentiated. Otherwise the same. Hind tibia with two 
unequal spurs. Stigmal vein curved. Abdomen above more or less depressed. 
1. NEORILEYELLA FASCIATA new species. Genotype, 
Female :—Length, 2 mm. 
Orange yellow, the proximal part of the scutellum lemon yellow; legs and antenne 
concolorous. Fore wing with a narrow black stripe across it at the bend of the submarginal 
vein and distad with a large, conspicuous, rounded stigma-like spot from the base of the 
stigmal vein and reaching nearly across the blade. Distal half of abdomen black, the antennal 
