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Closterocerus abelardi, new species. 



Blue, wings clear; tip tibia 3, distal two-thirds of 3, distal 

 third of 1 and tarsi white. Femur 3 rather flat. Scape flat, 

 gradually dilated from base ; clubs smaller than funicles. Face 

 with a V-shaped carina with apex at mouth, each arm going 

 dorsad along (near) eye-margin; other characters of genus 

 present. Wings ample. Propodeum noncarinate, thorax finely 

 scaly, parapsidal furrows faint. 



Watsonville, Queensland, forest, March. 



Note : Owing to bad manuscript, tibia 1 may be white for 

 distal two-thirds, the type at present not available. 



Metapelma bachi, new species. 



Like westzvoodi but femur 3 all blue, femur 1 at basal half 

 or less and ventrad to knee, tibia 1 dorsad blue. Propodeal 

 spiracle round, far caudad near the angle of the carinated 

 caudal margin. 



Forest, Nelson, January 11, 1919 (type), and Brisbane, three 

 females, February, March (Hacker). 



Neochrysocharella chamaeleon, new species. 



Like fasciatipennis but central third femur 3, a narrow cinctus 

 near base of all tibiae (faint in 1) and ventral edges widely at 

 center of femur 3, black. Also blotch of fore wing rather 

 faint, scape somewhat compressed and white basal two-thirds. 



Nelson, forest, April. 



Neochrysocharella froudei, new species. 



Like preceding species but scape slenderer, white, black of 

 femur 3 irregularly broken centrally, the cinctus of tibia 3 is 

 longer, extending a bit beyond middle ; blotch of fore wing 

 distinct; setae from marginal twice longer, subequal to post- 

 marginal in length. Types compared (first coxae not seen in 

 froudei). 



Wynnum, forest, April. 



Diaulomyia floris, new species. 



Like genotype but femur 3 concolorous to tip, fore wing with 



