1:16 MEMOIES OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Genus GROTIUSELLA Giranlt. 

 The antennal club is solid. 



GROTIUSELLA VARIGUTTATA new species. 



Female: — Of the usual size. Dark metallic blue-green, the abdomen 

 yellowish except dorsad, the legs white; caudal coxie and femora coucolorous 

 hut the apex of these femora rather broadly white. Caudal margin of pronotum 

 rather broadly except at extreme lateral end, a broad stripe across base of 

 abdomen deeply incised at meson of cephalic margin, followed by two pairs of 

 marginal spots (dorsal aspect), the mesal one wider than long, followed at about 

 midclle by a cross-stripe w^hich is not quite complete and has a marginal dot 

 just laterad of it, followed by a pair of marginal spots (the mesal one round- 

 ovate, the lateral a mere dot — dorsal aspect like the lateral ones of the other 

 pairs. From lateral aspect, the lateral spots are nearly as large as the mesal 

 ones and wider than long ; the abdomen thus bears spots much as in muUiejuttata. 

 The first pair is smallest), followed by a narrow, incomplete cross-stripe which is 

 obscurely interrupted at meson, followed by a mesal dot at tip, ivory white; 

 also ventral two thirds of face, facial margin of the eyes very narrowly (inside 

 of a broad, broken green line down the eyes) and the vertex except all the central 

 part broadly. Scape white, with a dusky spot on each side of tip. The following 

 parts golden yellow or tawny: Distal part of the " parapsidal furrows" and at 

 extreme cephalic end, margins of axilla; except the cephalic, margins of the 

 scutellum except the cephalic, proximal half of the teguhe, lateral margins of 

 postscutellum and sutures surrounding insertions of the wings, caudal tibiae 

 just below the knee, middle coxa\ an obscure area along iniddle femur ventrad 

 near tip, one on middle tibia^ dorsad near base and distal tarsal joint, metallic 

 purplish. Body finely scaly. Wings hyaline, the venation i)ale, the postmarginal 

 and stigmal veins subequal. Cheeks metallic. Pedicel barely longer than wide, 

 a little smaller than the subequal funicle joints wdiich are slightly wider than 

 long. ^Mandibles 6-dentate. Propodeum with a median carina. 



Described from a female captured by sweeping upland eucalyptus forest, 

 Brookljai, New South Wales, November 3, 1914. 



Type: No. Hy 3557, Queensland Museum, the specimen on a slide. 



GYROLASELLA GEMMA new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.25 mm. 



Lemon yellow, marked with dark coppery metallic green as follows: — A 

 Greek letter pi ( tt ) of the lower case centre of upper half occiput, ocellar 

 area, dorsal pedicel except at apex; distal half of scape dorso-laterad ; median 

 line of pronotum rather broadly; a dot at extreme^ caudo-lateral angle of 

 pronotum; parapsides, the green running to centre of each axilla; a cuneate 

 marking from mesal cephalic margin of scutum extending to apex, the yellow 

 lateral margin of scutum gradually widening distad ; scutellum except lateral 

 and apical margins broadly (green between the grooves but caudad narrowing 

 a little, leaving the grooves), postscutellum except lateral and apical margins 

 (hence an acute triangle at its base mesad) ; a Y-shaped marking at base of 

 abdomen ; a narrow cross-stripe on abdomen just before apex ; tip of ovipositor 

 valves; four pairs of cross-stripes on abdomen, the first stripe of each pair 

 fainter, the second stripe of the third pair complete or nearly, the others 



