178 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Genus BUEYISCHOMYIA Girault. 



Like Euryischia but the parapsidal furrows are complete; the hind coxae are enlarged 

 but cylindrical ovate as in some species of Euryischia. Tarsi 5 -jointed. The male is similar 

 but with an obtuse abdomen. 



1. EURYISCHOMYIA WASHINGTONI Girault. Female, male. Genotype. 



Length, 1 mm. Slender, the abdomen conic-ovate. 



Very dark metallic green; legs (except caudal coxae and femora) and tegulae pale 

 lemon yellow. Fore wings with a clearly delimited, broad, jet black band across them under 

 the marginal and most of postmarginal veins, its distal margin just reaching apex of stigmal 

 vein, its proximal margin nearly straight. Wings hyaline. Scutum with hardly more setae 

 than the scutellum which is nearly naked, the sparse setae whitish. Thorax finely scaly. 

 Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth broadly truncate. Two ring- joints, the three funicle 

 joints subquadrate. Not more than two bristles under submarginal vein. Hind femur 

 compressed. The male is similar. Outer angle of second tooth of mandible acute. 



One female was captured by sweeping in forest, Townsville, January 19, 1913. The 

 type locality is Pentland (January 8, 1913). 



Habitat: Capeville (Pentland) and Townsville, Queensland. Forest. 



Type: No. Hy2'M2, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 



2. EURYISCHOMYIA FLAVITHORAX new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 1.40 mm. 



Abdomen jet black; thorax deep orange yellow except most of the short black pronotum 

 which is lemon yellow at lateral angles and the postscutellum and propodeum which are 

 transverse and lemon yellow, the suture between them black. Head lemon yellow as are also 

 the legs and antennae and thoracic pleura. Hind coxae blackish. Thorax finely reticulated. 

 Wings hyaline. Mandibles tridentate, the third tooth really a truncation from the second 

 which forms the acute inner angle of the apex. Postmarginal vein somewhat longer than 

 the stigmal. Somewhat similar to saintpierrei Girault. Funicle 3 largest, all wider than 

 long. Obscure white marginal spots on base of abdomen. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from three females taken by sweeping forest, December 1 and 3, 1913 

 (A.A.G.). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Types : No. Hy 21 '44, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag, the head, 

 a hind tibia and another female on a slide. 



On March 2, 1914 a female was captured at Cooktown in forest (A. P. Dodd). 



3. EURYISCHOMYIA SAINTPIERREI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.30 mm. 



Running to Anysis Howard in the Eunotinae but the antennae clavate and 10-jointed 

 with two ring-joints, the club 3-jointed; scutellum flat and hardly differentiated from the 

 propodeum, not as long as the scutum which bears complete parapsidal furrows. Wings 

 as in Euryischia of the Elasmidse but the large bristles absent; hind coxae enlarged but 

 cylindrical. Second abdominal segment (dorsad) hardly as long as the others, not a fifth 

 of the surface, the abdomen short and stout. Hind tibiae with stiff bristles dorsad, the femora 

 stout. Wings hyaline. Propodeum apparently without carinas. Pedicel subelongate. 



Abdomen black, thorax and head yellowish brown, the propodeum black; legs brownish 

 black, the knees, tibiae and tarsi lemon yellow; antennae brownish yellow, the three funicle 



