310 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



1. PARACHRYSOMALLA AEREIFEMUR new species. Genotype. 

 Female: — Length, 2.15 ram. Robust. 



Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the knees, tibia?,' tarsi and scape pale yellow, the 

 pedicel dusky pallid; rest of antenna black. Funicle 1 longest, longer than wide, 2 and 3 

 subequal, subquadrate, 5-7 wider than long, widening at apex; club ovate, short, its apex 

 nippled. Thorax with a distinct scaly sculpture. Eing- joint by far not as wide as the funicle 

 but nearly as long as wide, the pedicel subequal to funicle 4. 



Described from one female captured in a forest pocket, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Kuranda (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2760, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag; head and hind 

 legs on a slide. 



Genus ELATUS Walker. 



I. ELATUS ATER new species. 



Male: — Length, 1.70 mm. Petiole of abdomen distinctly twice longer than wide, longer 

 than hind coxae. 



Black with a metallic lustre, the wings hyaline; scape and tibiae yellowish brown, the- 

 flagellum dusky brownish; tarsi white. Body glabrous; occiput and neck of prothorax finely 

 reticulated ; scutum with delicate transverse lines except caudad. Propodeum rather densely 

 scaly, with a short median carina and indicated from base a long, strong carina on each side 

 of meson and half way to spiracle; the lateral and caudal margins carinated; spiracle- 

 reniform. Petiole longitudinally carinate. Abdomen shaped as in Perilampus, glabrous. 

 Postmarginal vein nearly twice longer than the very short stigmal, the marginal two thirds 

 or more the length of the submarginal. With the general habitus of Perilampus. Antennas 

 11-jointed, the short club solid; funicle joints all distinctly wider than long, distinctly shorter 

 than the club, which is shorter than the moderately long, simple scape. Pedicel cupshaped. 

 One distinct ring-joint. Hind tibial spur single, slender. (Sculpture of distal half of dorsal 

 abdomen not seen.) 



From one male caught in jungle, January 3, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2761, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 

 hind legs on a slide. 



Genus MELANOSOMELLA Girault. 



Antennae 12-jointed. with one large ring-joint, the club 3-jointed. the male antenna? 

 different and bearing long rami. The marginal vein two and a half times its own ividth but 

 shorter than either the stigmal or postmarginal veins. 



Head (cephalic aspect) slightly wider than long; antennae inserted slightly below the 

 middle of the face, the scrobes short and not deep, the lateral ocelli far distant from the 

 eyes; pronotmu not long, the parapsidal furrows complete; head and thorax smooth. Ring-joint 

 large, nearly as long as wide; funicle apparently compressed, the joints all transverse and 

 lamellate or produced toward one side, the distal much less so and largest of the funicle; 

 pedicel subquadrate, much longer than the proximal funicle joints; club long-ovate, longer 

 than the cylindrical, simple scape, its joints obliquely truncate, the distal joint short and 

 conic. Fore wings normal, the marginal cilia sparse and short. Propodeum with a slight 



