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8. TUMIDICOXELLA AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. Female. 
Length, 2.85 mm. 
Black, punctate, the tegule, knees and tarsi yellowish; wings hyaline. Posterior femur 
with nine teeth beneath, the ninth tooth very small; funicle 1 and club joint subequal; two 
elliptical lemon yellow spots on posterior tibiz one just below knees, the other just before tip. 
Habitat: National Park, New South Wales. 
Type: No. I.1246, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 
DIRRHINOMORPHA new genus of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 
Male:—Head abnormal, deeply excavated in front with two horns somewhat as in 
the tribe Dirrhinini. Antenne inserted above an imaginary line drawn across base of eyes; 
13-jointed, one ring-joint, three club joints as in Chalcis, the third club joint small, truncate. 
Eyes large, bare. Pronotum distinctly visible from above, as wide as the mesonotum, much 
wider than long. Parapsidal furrows deep and distinct. Scutellum with a small, rounded 
plate. Abdomen no longer than the thorax, the second segment occupying rather more than 
half the length. Marginal vein three times as long as the postmarginal, the latter longer 
than the stigmal. Posterior femora with about eight large teeth. Agreeing with Chalcis and 
differing only in the excavated and horned head. The horns are not so conspicuous from 
lateral aspect as in the Dirrhinini. 
1. DIRRHINOMORPHA ANGUSTA new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Genotype. 
Male :—Length, 8.25 mm. 
Black; posterior cox and femora bright red; cephalic and intermediate tarsi and the 
knees golden yellow, a little suffused with dusky; cephalic tibie suffused with yellow; apical 
club joint of antenne yellow. Fore wing with a large infuscated area round the marginal 
and postmarginal veins. Pedicel small and transverse; the ring-joint small; funicle 1 longer 
than wide; 2 somewhat shorter, 3-7 all wider than long; club distinctly longer than preceding 
joint, longer than wide. Second tooth on posterior femur very minute, the last also small. 
Head and thorax with large cireular punctures; second abdominal segment with fine, Bese 
gonal scaly sculpture, the following segments with scattered punctures. 
Described from one male caught on foliage of Melaleuca, October 12, 1913 (A. P. Doda). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3386, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag and a slide 
bearing the antennz and a fore wing. 
CHRYSOCHALCISSA new genus. 
Like Chalcis Fabricius but small and compact like Perilampus, the body metallic, the 
seutellum quite simple. Head normal, metallic, the antenne inserted slightly above the 
middle of the face, 13-jointed with two ring-joints, the club 3-jointed, the funicle joints with 
short, stout peduncles. Posterior femora armed beneath, finely denticulate proximad, then 
with many comblike teeth as in Stomatoceras, the last two of these confluent at base; no large 
teeth. Marginal vein nearly as long as the submarginal, the postmarginal twice the length 
of the short stigmal but only about a third the length of the marginal. Abdomen quite as 
in Perilampus but the third segment is very short. Punctation very fine and dense. (An 
indieation of a minute fourth club joint present.) 
1. CHRYSOCHALCISSA OLIVACEA new species. Male. Genotype. 
Length, 1.75 mm. 
Dark olive green with slight zneous tinges, especially on, the head; _wings hyaline; legs 
concolorous, the knees, much of cephalic tibia and all tarsi straw yellow; ‘scape reddish brown, 
