282 MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



In this genus, the seutellum really bears four grooved lines, the second groove shorter 

 and visible only from dorso-laterad, the first as described — from dorsal aspect near lateral 

 margin of seutellum. 



EuplectropJielinus differs merely in having the club solid and a very short abdominal 

 petiole. Otherwise it is exactly similar except that segment 2 of the abdomen is longer. 

 Sympiesomorphelleus is the same as Diglyphomorphomyia. All the species bear four grooved 

 lines on the seutellum but as described not as in the Tetrastichini and probably most of the 

 genera with grooves on seutellum are the same. The presence of the second groove is not a 

 good diagnostic character at all and I have now ignored it. The species E. saintpierrei has the 

 punctures of the groove of seutellum isolated; in the species of Sympiesomorphelleus they are 

 ■joined. 



Genus ALOPHOMOEPHELLA Girault. 22 



Female: — In my table of genera runs to Alophomorphella Girault but the grooves of the 

 seutellum are narrow, delicate and merely curve toward each other at apex, the abdomen is 

 sessile and the propodeum bears a pair of close, narrow median carina?, the distinct, conspicuous, 

 median groove-like impressions of scutum (distal half) and seutellum (proximal three fourths) 

 absent. Lateral carina of propodeum represented by an oblique line of fovese which is 

 eaudad, far from the spiracle. Mandibles 5- and 6-dentate. Marginal vein subequal to the 

 submarginal, the stigmal long, somewhat over a third the length of the marginal, the 

 postmarginal nearly half the length of the marginal. Parapsidal furrows not reaching 

 pronotnm. Head triangular. Axillae advanced but not greatly. 



1. ALOPHOMORPHELLA ASPERITERGUM new species 



Female: — Length, 2.70 mm. 



Bright aeneous, the legs (except base of cephalic and all of other coxae) and scape 

 except slightly above at tip, orange yellow, the tibiae and tarsi whitish; antennae black; 

 wings hyaline but fore wings with a distinct but not large, rounded, smoky spot centrally 

 just opposite apex of stigmal vein. Venation brown. Abdomen dark coppery except at 

 base. Head sculptured finely. Pronotum, scutum and parapsides punctate, postscutellum, 

 seutellum and axillae densely scaly shagreened. Propodeum delicately scaly, roughly scaly 

 like the seutellum laterad of the oblique lateral groove (commencing just at the mesal margin 

 of spiracle which is moderate and round-oval, cephalad). Abdomen finely scaly except the 

 green segment 2 which is not long. Abdomen depressed, conical, as long as the rest of the 

 body. Hind coxa dorsad scaly. Antennae inserted in the middle of the face, the third club 

 joint minute and with a distinct terminal spine. Funicle 1 about twice longer than wide, 

 4 a little longer than wide, all longer and larger than the pedicel which is only a little longer 

 than wide. Funicles 2 and 3 subequal, somewhat shorter than 1. Postscutellum much shorter 

 than seutellum. Pronotum normal. 



From one female caught on forest uplands, May 30, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Maclean (Clarence Kiver), New South Wales. 



Type: No. Hy 2690, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; caudal 

 tibiae and head on a slide. 



Very similar indeed to niveipes but the legs pure white in that species, the propodeum 

 mesad of the spiracle less distinctly scaly, the abdomen with a short petiole, the spot on 

 fore wing somewhat longer. 



22 Other species a few pages beyond. The species here were intended for a new genus. 



