BY ALAN P. DODD. lOS 



Genus Hadronotus. Foersier. 



Hadron'otus nigricoxa, Dodd. 



Two females captured from foliage of plants around 

 canefields, Halifax. Herbert River, X.Q,., 29th March, 

 1914 (A. P. Dodd.) 



Hadroxotus aquaticus, Dodd. 



One male caught by sweeping in forest, Gordon vale, 

 N.Q., 13th August, 1914 (A. A. Girault). 



Genus Sceliomorpha. Ashmead. 



SCELIOMORPHA MAGNICLAVA, Sp. nOV. 



Q Length. 3.75 mm. 



Coal black : legs golden yellow, including the coxae : 

 first five antennal joints slightly suffused with yellow. 



Head no wider than thorax ; rugose -punctate, the 

 punctures of moderate size ; ocelli in an equilateral triangle, 

 the lateral pair distant from the eye margins by nearly 

 their own diameter. Thorax scarcely longer than wide ; 

 scutum with rather large, circular punctures, rather dense, 

 the spaces betAveen the punctures finely scaly : scutellum 

 with large scattered punctures, the surface otherwise 

 • glabrous ; parapsidal furrows complete : scutellum large. 

 Abdomen sessile, scarcely as wide as the thorax ; as long 

 as the head and thorax combined : 2nd segment slightly 

 the largest ; 1st segment with six strong striae centrally, 

 rest of abdomen densely longitudinally rugose. Fore wings 

 reaching apex of abdomen ; broad : infuscated : discal 

 cilia rather fine, very dense ; submarginal vein attaining 

 costa about middle of wing ; sfcigmal vein moderately long, 

 not very obhque, straight : venation golden yellow. Anten- 

 nae 12-jointed : scape equal to next five joints combined ; 

 pedicel nearly twice as long as Avide ; funicle joints slightly 

 narrower than pedicel : 1st one-half longer than wide ; 

 2nd and 3rd wider than long : 4th widened, and probably 

 forming part of club : club 6 -jointed, 1st joint the longest 

 and widest, as long as wide, 2-5 twice as wide as long. 



Hab : New South Wales. Described from one female 

 in the collections of the Macleaj^ Museum. 



Type ■ Macleay Museum, Sydney ; Hymenoptera Id. 

 a $ on a tag, the antennae and forewings on a slide. 



