288 MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Genus EUPLECTEOPHELINUS Gifault. 

 In the genotype, the propodeum is black mesad out nearly to the lateral carina. A second 

 specimen had the propodeum black only down the median line rather broadly. 



PEOAEDALUS new genus of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Similar to Ardaloides Girault but nonmetallic and there is only one ring- 

 joint and the petiole of abdomen is shorter, the second segment not depressed and obconic as in 

 Ardaloides whose petiole is slender, longer than the hind coxaa and somewhat over thrice 

 longer than its width. The petiole with this genus is not as long as the hind coxae (per se) 

 and not much longer than wide, the second segment convex -hemispherical, occupying somewhat 

 over a- fourth of the surface. Otherwise about the same. Similar to Euplectrophelinus Girault 

 but there is but the one ring-joint, the propodeum is without a neck and lateral carinas (but 

 with lateral sulci) and the second abdominal segment is much shorter (about half the surface 

 in the other). 



Type: The following species. 



1. PROARDALUS NIGRICAPUT new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd 



Female: — Length, 1.15 mm. 



Shining black, the wings hyaline, the abdomen, legs, scape and pedicel (but darker), 

 yellow-brown, the abdomen margined all round rather broadly with blackish. Grooves of 

 scutellum joining round apex. Thorax reticulated, the lines not raised. Scutellum and pro- 

 podeum practically without sculpture, polished. Segment 2 of abdomen equal in length to 

 3 and 4 combined, its caudal margin slightly convexed. Mandibles 6-dentate. Funicle 4 a 

 little the longest, the others subequal, all oval, not much longer than wide. Pedicel about 

 equal to the funicle joints, much shorter than the solid club, which is not of great length. 



Described from one female caught by sweeping grass and foliage on edge of jungle, 

 September 20, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Northern Queensland (Kuranda near Cairns). 



Type: No. EyB70S, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the 

 head and hind legs on a slide. 



Tribe ELACHEETOIDINT. 

 The tarsi are 5- jointed, the hind tibial spurs double. 



Genus DIPAEELLOMYIA Girault. 

 The parapsidal furrows are complete. Antea, p. 179, line 10, postmarginal should read 

 submarginal. A female, forest, type locality, August 20, 1914, was rosaceous coppery instead 

 of dark green but otherwise the same. The cross-suture on scutellum is fine, the latter shining, 

 the scaly sculpture visible but faint. 



Tribe ETJLOPHINI. 



Genus GEOTIUSELLA Girault. 



The parapsidal furrows are variable, most frequently not reaching the axillae. 

 Eulopliinusia is the same as this genus. Antennas inserted on a level with the ventral end of 

 the eyes. Abdominal segments subequal. 



1. GROTIUSELLA CYDIPPE (Girault). 



Eulopliinusia cydippe (Girault). 

 Length, 1.12 mm. This species resembles Elacliertonecremnus circumjectus Girault m 

 some respects, the body similar and the scutellum and axillae are similarly margined with 

 golden yellow. But there are two slender hind tibial spurs and the mandibles bear less teeth. 



