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perfectly simple, no cross-line of foveas before tip; propodeum perfectly plane, polished; 

 no pubescence. Thorax jet black, also distal one or two funicle joints. Otherwise in color 

 like the type forms. Petiole longer than the long hind coxae. 



Captured September 13, 1913 at Kuranda (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2469, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above female on a slide. 



2. POLYNEMA FRANKLINI Girault. 

 This species also differs from rousseaui in having no disto-cephalic spot on the fore- 

 wing. 



3. POLYNEMA SAPPHO Girault. 

 The color of the legs given in the table of species is correct. 



4. POLYNEMA LODGEI Girault. 



Antea, first sivpplement, p. 123, fourth line from bottom scond read second. 



5. POLYNEMA FRATER Girault. 

 The type is a male, the type locality Ingham, Queensland. 



6. POLYNEMA ROMANESI Girault. 

 In the table of species (first supplement, p. 127), this species should be included within 

 the group containing draperi and allies. It differs from draperi in its greater size and 

 longer antennal joints. Thus, funicle 2 is only about twice the length of the pedicel in male 

 draperi, plainly thrice its length in male romanesi. The tarsal joints are much longer. From 

 nordaui female, romanesi differs in the greater slenderness as with draperi and the hind legs 

 are wholly orange yellow. The first joint of caudal tarsus is distinctly less than half the 

 length of the caudal tibia in nordaui (somewhat less so in draperi) but in romanesi it is 

 about half the length of the caudal tibia or a little more. In romanesi, joint 1 of the caudal 

 tarsus is distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints while in male draperi it is about 

 as long as the longest joints of the funicle in that species. In female nordaui the tarsal 

 joint is a little shorter than funicle joint 2. Types of the species named re-examined. 



7. POLYNEMA WALLACEI new species. 



Female: — Length, 2 mm. 



Characterised by bearing on the fore wing longitudinally a large subovate fuscous 

 marking which fills over the distal third of the blade and thus running to lodgei Girault 

 from which it differs in that the longitudinal marking in that species is uniform and central, 

 columnar; also in lodgei the club is short and stout while in this new species it is long and 

 slender; in lodgei, also, the distal funicle joints are shorter. The wings are about the same 

 otherwise. Antennae black except the first three joints which together with the first two pairs 

 of legs (except coxae and a ring around first femur at base), the petiole except distal half 

 and the hind tarsi, are chrome yellow. Hind legs somewhat darker. Funicle joint 6 over 

 twice longer than wide, shortest, somewhat longer than the pedicel. Ovipositor just tipping 

 the abdomen. In lodgei the fore wings are a little broader and funicle joint 6 is not twice 

 longer than wide but subequal to the pedicel. Differs from grotiusi in being smaller, the 

 nonexserted ovipositor, the different color and somewhat longer antennal club. First two or 

 three abdominal segments long, the others transverse. Short carina? inclose the propodeal 

 spiracle. Cross-groove of scutellum finely punctate. Scutellum, pronotum, scutum, axillae, 

 parapsides (except laterad centrally) polished; vertex faintly sculptured; scutellum with 

 indication of a median groove at base (a longer than wide fovea) ; abdomen polished. 

 Propodeum with a distinct median carina, which forks at apex; its spiracle minute. 



