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strongly aciculated, with two keels slightly diverging at the apex, in the center. Metapleure 
regularly reticulated. Abdominal petiole aciculated, more strongly at base than apex, its sides 
margined, weakly so on apical half, sides with two stout keels, and an irregular one on basal 
half between them. 
Habitat: Mittagong, New South Wales. 
Type: Query. 
GENUS NEARRETOCERA Girault. 
1. NEARRETOCERA JOHNSTONI Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 2.60 mm. 
Black, punctate, the punctures not confluent; tegule, coxee (except hind coxa above) and 
the rest of legs (except outwardly, a large black area from upper margin of hind femur, ovate 
in shape) dark reddish; scape and next six joints orange, rest of antenna black. Fore wings 
with a black stripe across them from the marginal vein and in the outer third of the blade a 
black marking like a fleur-de-lis (but with the bottom part, that below the ring absent) which 
is upended upon one of the arms; the base of this marking nearly touches the first cross-band; 
proximad of latter the blade fumated to the bend of the submarginal vein. Scape nearly half 
the length of the flagellum (including pedicel), the club distinetly shorter than it; first funicle 
joint subquadrate, joints 4-8 longest. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, May 26. 
Type: No. Hy 3421, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Tag and a side. 
The genus agrees in every detail with Arretocera Kirby but the club is solid; the small, 
third antennal joint is plainly not a ring-joint. Scutellum simple. Postmarginal vein absent. 
Petiole of abdomen short, stout; stigmal vein a mere spur. Pedicel longer than any of the 
funicle joints. 
2. NEARRETOCERA FUSCIPENNIS new species of A. P. Dodd and Girault. Female. ~ 
Length, 3.50 mm. 
Black, coarsely punctate; knees, tips of tibia and the tarsi more or less ferrugineous. 
Punctures less dense and not confluent on scutellum and axille; parapsides almost wholly smooth. 
Propodeum with many transverse and several longitudinal carinz. Petiole short, stout, the 
abdomen likewise, the second segment dorsad occupying over half of the surface, strongly 
longitudinally carinated, the rest of the abdomen dorsad and laterad with circular punctures 
and long white pubescence; second segment short laterad; proximal half of abdomen laterad 
quite smooth and shining. Fore wings wholly deeply fumated. Antenne 11-jointed, without a 
ring-joint; scape very long, pedicel also long, much longer than any of funicle joints, of which 
the first is smallest, though plainly not a ring-joint; joints all longer than wide. Marginal vein 
not short. 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. October 11, 1914 (H. Hacker). 
Type: No. Hy 3422, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Tag and slide. 
8. NEARRETOCERA RUBRICORNIS new species of A. P. Dodd. Female. 
Length, 3 mm. 
Black, coarsely punctate, the antennz, trochanters, anterior tibiew, tips of other tibia, 
knees and tarsi ferrugineous. Wings hyaline, marginal vein short; second abdominal segment 
smooth or nearly so; abdomen more slender than in fuscipennis. Funicle 1 more like a ring- 
joint; other joints of funicle as wide as long, 1 wider than long. 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. November 19, 1913 (H. Hacker). 
Type: No. Hy 3423, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. A slide. 
