272 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



14. GYROLASELLA TAU new species. 

 Female:- — Length, 2.15 mm. 



Very similar to f estiva, the scutum bearing a green marking like the Greek letter Tau 

 of the lower case or Upsilon of the capital case. Differing however, as follows : The parapsidal 

 furrows are metallic green but not the inner margin of the parapsides; the green median line 

 of scutellum is swollen distad like an inverted exclamation point. The propodeum is green 

 only on each side of the projecting postscutellum ; there is a green dot in center of each 

 parapside and another (larger) spot on each axilla mesad; also a spot filling the center of 

 the postscutellum. The abdominal stripes differ in that there are six, the first really consisting 

 of a semicircular loop on each side at base, the apex or top of the loop a little caudad of 

 mesad, the caudal end at lateral margin and accented like a round spot; stripes 2-6 connected 

 along meson by a narrow line, 2 and 3 abbreviated laterad, 5 fainter but complete, some 

 distance from 6 which is near apex and represented by a dot on each side at margin. Ocelli 

 in green spots ; just latero-caudad of lateral ocellus a green dash and a crescentic mark ventrad 

 of each; also a narrow green line connecting antennal insertions from thence dorsad to ventral 

 end of each eye. Scape beneath, basal third of pedicel and a curved, long spot above on 

 scape also green. Otherwise similar but the mandibles 5-dentate. 



From two females on a card labelled " Mordialloc. Emerged 11-10. F. Spry, Vict." 



Habitat. • Mordialloc, Victoria. 



Types: In the National Museum, Melbourne, the above specimens on a tag, the heads 

 on a slide. 



15. GYROLASELLA BRACTEATA new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.75 mm. 



Yellowish green, the wings hyaline, the shortly extruded valves of the ovipositor black. 

 Marked with dark metallic green as follows: A transverse line across meson of pronotum, a 

 dot at each caudo-lateral angle of pronotum, a short, elliptical marking along meson of scutum 

 at about distal three fourths, a narrow wedgeshaped marking along mesal margin of each 

 parapside a little caudad of middle (extending well toward caudal edge but not reaching it). 

 A little over cephalic half of median line of scutellum rather broadly, dorsal propodeum except 

 lateral margin and eephalo-laterad, a small triangular (apex mesad) spot over propodeal 

 spiracle, two 20 wider than long spots on meson of abdomen a little distad of middle of proximal 

 half and two marginal dots resembling spiracles nearly opposite the central transverse 

 spots but a little caudad of each one respectively. Funicle joints narrower than the club, 

 subequal, somewhat wider than long. Mandibles with about four teeth. Pedicel above metallic 

 at base. 



From one female caught in forest, April 10, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2668, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



16. GYROLASELLA MULTIPUNCTUM new species. 



Female: — Length, 2 mm. Slender, rather large. 



Greenish yelloAv, the wings hyaline; marked with dark metallic green as follows: Three 

 minute marks in a triangle just ventrad of ocelli; two very narrow lines across face, one above 

 antenna;, the other through their insertions; dorsal edge of scape and a spot on each side; 

 proximal third or more of pedicel; somewhat less than distal half of median line of scutum 

 very narrowly; an oval spot in center of parapside, an elongate spot along center of axilla; 



20 A faint third one distad of second. 



