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venation) with about seven lines of diseal cilia, the caudal marginal cilia much longer than the' 

 marginal cilia of the fore wing but much shorter than the greatest width of the hind wing. 

 Mandibles bidentate but a third minute tooth is indicated within but is much shorter. Post- 

 marginal vein a little shorter than stigmal. One ring- joint. Parapsidal furrows complete. 



From one female captured by sweeping in forest, January 7, 1913. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2509, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



Dedicated to Alexandre Dumas, pere. 



CHBYSOCHABELLA nomen nudum. 

 This genus heretofore has been poorly characterised. Its' antennae are rather short,- 

 subcompressed, clavate, the club casually appearing 4-jointed, since the second funicle joint is 

 more or less closely attached to the club. In the genotype, the parapsidal furrows are only 

 cephalad, the axillae advanced but not very much so. The shape of the antennal flagellum is 

 the characteristic of the genus. See antea, p. 169. Later, I find the group the same as- 

 Achrysocharella through connecting forms. See Achrysocharella. 



1. CHRYSOCHARELLA PULCHRA new species. Referred to Neochrysocharella Dodd. 



Length, about 1 mm. Abdomen finely scaly like the thorax. Pore wings broad, 

 pyriform. Antea, p. 169. The parapsidal furrows are distinct only for a short distance 

 cephalad. Type re-examined. 



Described from one female captured July 14, 1912. Type specimen on a tag, the head 

 on a slide. 



2. ACHRYSOCHARELLA NIVEIPES new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.80 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the antennae and legs silvery white; last club joint dusky; fore 

 wing with an obscure stain from the stigmal knob. Coxae white, the hind one partly metallic 

 outwardly. Terminal spur of club distinct; funicle joint 1 shorter than the pedicel; next two 

 joints wider than long. Body uniformly sculptured, scaly. Mandibles bidentate. 

 . Male: — Unknown. 



Described from two females captured in forest, November 1, 1913 and from a window, 

 December 25, 1913. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2510, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the first specimen on a slide. 



3. ACHRYSOCHARELLA ASHMEADI new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.75 mm. 



Similar in most respects to niveipes, but the mark on the fore wing is more distinct, 

 being a suffused dusky cross-stripe from the stigmal vein and distal part of marginal (in 

 niveipes an obscure patch from the stigmal vein), those wings are distinctly narrower with 

 longer marginal fringes (about 14 lines of diseal cilia where broadest, the longest marginal 

 cilia nearly a third of the greatest width; in niveipes about 19 lines, the longest marginal 

 cilia about a fourth the greatest width). The funicle joint 1 is subquadrate. Very distinct 

 from Neochrysocharella fasciatipennis which bears a distinct wing marking, the fore wings 

 broad, with about 30 lines of diseal cilia, the marginal cilia short, not a ninth of the greatest 

 wing width. Besides, the legs in that species are distinctly colored, also the antennae. The 

 hind wings in fasciatipennis are twice or more the size of those in ashmeadi. Mandibles- 

 bidentate. 



Prom one female captured in forest, January 7, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2511, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



