173 



about twenty rows: venation as in nir/er. Length, 0'75 mm. 



Described from a single specimen caught on a window, 

 December 27, 1912. 



Hah. — North Queensland: Nelson, near Cairns. 



Tyjie. — I. 1433, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a slide. 



Table of the species of Xeotelenomus, Dodd. 



(1) Forewings infuscated ; tibiae and 



tarsi yellow; stigmal vein very long leai, Dodd 



(2) Forewiugs hyaline ; stigmal vein 



moderately short. 

 (a) Shining-black, forewings long and 

 broad. 



(1) Legs (except cephalic cox£e), 



yellow ; antennal scape 



yellow ovivorus, Dodd 



(2) Cox£e and femora black, 



antennal scape black. 

 Marginal vein one-third 



as long as stigmal ... o,ntherece, Dodd 

 Marginal vein two-thirds 



as long as stigmal ... niger, Dodd 

 (h) Fuscous, forewings short and 

 rather narrow. 



Legs (except coxae), yellow 



suffused with brown minimus, Dodd 



Mtrotelenomus, nov. gen. 

 9 • Head transverse, wider than the thorax ; eyes rather 

 large, bare : ocelli situated wide apart, the lateral ones near 

 the eye margins; mandibles biclentate. Antennas 12-jointed; 

 short; scape long and slender; pedicel short: funicle- joints 

 small, all wider than long, the last a little widened; club 

 slender, 5-jointed. Thorax subquadrate ; a little wider than 

 long : pronotum not visible from above ; mesonotum without 

 furrows; scutellum large, semicircular. Forewings short, 

 broad, with long marginal cilia ; submarginal vein short ; 

 thickened, joining the margin at one-fourth wing length ; mar- 

 ginal vein short, thickened : postmarginal and stigmal veins 

 absent. Abdomen broadly oval : sessile ; much wider than the 

 thorax ; longer than heacl and thorax united : scarcely longer 

 than wide ; first segment as wide as the metathorax : depressed 

 at the base ; second segment the longest, but only equal to one- 

 third abdominal length. 



MiROTELENOMUS ABNORMIS, Sp. UOV. 



9 • Shining-black ; the legs and antennal scape reddish- 

 yellow. Forewings when closed not reaching apex of abdomen ; 

 first third of wing hyaline, the rest much infuscated ; longest 

 marginal cilia equal to one-third greatest wing width ; discal 

 cilia very fine and dense. Length, I'lO mm. 



