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westivoodi but it also is distinctly joined to the middle stripe by a short oblique band from its- 

 apex to the middle of the dorsal arm of that stripe. Hind tibial spurs single in both species.- 



What appeared to be the male was similar. 



From one female caught on forest uplands, May 3, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed Eiver), New South Wales. 



Type: No. Hy2540, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with type 

 westwoodi. 



Eespectfully dedicated to George William Curtis. 



OMPHALOMOBPHOIDES new genus of A. P. Dodd. 

 Like OmphalomorpJiella but the postmarginal vein not developed. 



1. OMPHALOMORPHOIDES VIOLESCENS new species of A. P. Dodd. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 3.75 mm.. 



Brilliant metallic purple, the coxeb concolorous, rest of legs intense lemon yellow; 

 antennae black. 



Antennae 11-jointed, two ring, four funicle, three club joints; pedicel long, fully twice 

 as long as greatest width, ring-joints large (forming a transition between ring and funicle- 

 joints), funicle and club joints transverse, the flagellum clavate. Mandibles bidentate. 

 Scutum large, the scutellum also large, both densely reticulately scaly and with a few scattered' 

 punctures. Scutellum simple. Propodeum short, without carinas, finely scaly. Abdomen 

 sessile, short and broad, second segment slightly the longest. Wings long, hyaline. 



Described from two females in the collections of the Macleay Museum and labelled 1 

 " Sydney, NSW." 



Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. 



Type: No. Hymenoptera 10d, Macleay Museum, Sydney University, two females on' 

 a tag; head and hind legs on a slide. 



One hind tibial spur, deep complete parapsidal furrows, submarginal vein broken,, 

 marginal shorter than submarginal, stigmal very long, nearly as long as the marginal, post- 

 marginal not developed; discal ciliation normal. 



Genus ZAOMMOMYIELLA Girault, 



In this genus, the cheeks are very short yet distinct, the eye not quite extending to- 

 the mandibles. 



1. ZAOMMOMYIELLA OCULATA (Girault). 



One female was captured in jungle at Babinda, Q., February 11, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 

 The terminal spine of club is as long as joint 3. The abdomen has three dusky cross-stripes^ 

 distad of the broad blue basal band. The oral area is yellow. Funicle 1 longest of the 

 flagellum, subequal to pedicel. 



2. ZAOMMOMYIELLA ABNORMIS Girault. 



The vertex and sides of thorax are reddish brown. Type re-examined. 



3. ZAOMMOMYIELLA TINTINNABULUM new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.80 mm. 



Similar to oculata Girault but on dorsal abdomen there is one broader metallic blue and' 

 three narrower dusky stripes distad of the broad basal stripe (only three narrow dusky stripes 

 in oculata) ; the first or metallic of these stripes is deeply excised at meson from cephalic- 



