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on each side of the meson each reaching somewhat three fourths the way to apes. Thorax 

 distinctly longitudinally lineolated. Hind tibia? more or less dusky just below knees. Marginal 

 vein subequal to stigmal. Scape white, antenna black. 



From one female caught on a native grass in forest, April 4, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2128, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



A second female taken May 13, same place, had the base of abdomen yellow transversely. 



Genus PABUFENS Girault. 

 The antennae bear two ring-joints. Bemoved from Ufens. 



1. PARUFENS ARGENTITIBIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.70 mm. 



Jet black, the vertex more or less yellowish, the trochanters, tibia?, knees and tarsi 

 silvery white, the wings hyaline. Pedicel nearly twice the length of the funicle joint which is 

 cupshaped, its greatest width (apex) a little more than its length; club acuminate-ovate, longer 

 than the scape, without a terminal seta, its three joints longer than wide. Pedicel apparently 

 with a coarse scaly sculpture. Fore wings moderate in width, with about 15 regular lines of 

 discal cilia and a curved line from the stigmal vein with about four cilia. Stigmal vein long, 

 the marginal longer than it but not much more so. Hind wings short, moderately broad, 

 obtusely pointed at apex, bearing four lines of discal cilia, two cephalad and distinct, two 

 caii dad and faint; caudal marginal fringes about as long as the greatest width. Marginal 

 fringes of fore wing very short. 



Differs from the genotype only in having the tibia? silvery besides the tarsi, the funicle 

 joint cupshaped and apparently in having one more line of discal cilia in the hind wing. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female captured December 24, 1912 in forest. 



Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2429, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with the 

 type of Aprostocetus salt en sis Girault. 



2. PARUFENS ARGENTIPES Girault. 

 A male of this species was captured January 4, 1913 at Capeville (Pentland), Queens- 

 land, by sweeping in forest. It differs from the female in bearing a distinctly 2-jointed funicle, 

 the antenna? as in the female of Ufens Girault. Thus the female Ufens is like the male of 

 Parufens except that there are two ring- joints in the latter. In the female of argentipes, 

 the pedicel is coarsely sculptured into scales, while the funicle is much wider than long and 

 apparently solid while in the male the pedicel seems simple, the funicle plainly 2-jointed and 

 only somewhat wider than long, the division transverse. The male genitalia are extruded 

 distinctly for some length (half that of the abdomen) and resemble an ovipositor. The 

 mandibles are tridentate in both sexes, the hind Avings with three rows of discal cilia, two 

 cephalic. The ring-joints in the male are distinct but the second one adheres closely to the 

 funicle. 



Genus ABBELLA Girault. 



1. ABBELLA SEXGUTTATA new species. 



Female: — Very similar to mira Girault but the two distal spots on the abdomen do not 



form cross-stripes but are widely separated, the second spot widest, all wider than long. The 



substigmal spot is very pronounced as in mira and the club is dusky, its first joint black as 



in mira. 



Male: — Not known. 



From one female taken in forest, March 31, 1914. 



