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sculptured. Wings with pale yellow neuration and stigma. 

 Length about 3 mm. 



Hab. Bundaberg, Queensland; bred. 



PARANTEON gen nov. 



Of robust form. Head in dorsal aspect transverse, the vertex 

 convex, maxillary palpi 6-jointed, labial three-jointed. Antennae 

 simple, pvibescent, and with longish hairs beneath, both on the 

 scape and the flagellum, all the joints of the latter elongate, the 

 scape as long as the two following joints together, the fourth 

 longer than the third, but none of the flagellar joints differ much 

 in length. Pronotum short, evidently shorter than the mesono- 

 timi, narrowed anteriorly; the mesonotum convex, with short, 

 widely separated parapsidal furrows; the propodeum very short, 

 subvertical from close to its anterior margin. Front legs imper- 

 fectly chelate, the chelae being incapable of extension, the fifth 

 joint subnormal, elongate and with only a very short free basal 

 prolongation beneath the fourth, the chelar claw closing on it 

 and being of about the same length and without denticles be- 

 iieath; fourth joint short, subnormal, hardly longer than the pre- 

 ceding. Front wings with large subovate stigma. Basal seg- 

 ment of the abdomen with strongly marked anterior and dorsal 

 surfaces, the former abruptly inclined to the latter and much 

 longer than it. 



Par ant eon viyrmecophilus, sp. nov. 



Black, the head, most of the thorax and basal joint of antennae 

 ferruginous, the postscutellum and propodeum generally black 

 or piceous, front legs more or less brown or pitchy. 



Head shining and with rather indefinite punctuation, tending 

 to rugosity; mesonotum somewhat shining, decidedly more finely 

 punctured than the head, and the punctures not very definite; 

 dorsal face of propodeum very short along the middle line, not 

 longer than the post scutellum, with very fine granulate or coria- 

 ceous sculpture and the posterior raised line obsolete or wanting; 

 posterior face shining, excessively feebly and indefinitely rugu- 

 lose, and with no median area defined. Wings with neuration 

 and stigma dark fuscous, a faint oblique cloud beneath the 

 stigma. Length 3-4 mm. 



Male. Entirely black except the front tibiae and tarsi. Face 

 Vv'ide, subtransverse, smooth and shining', with large shallow 



