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Postmarginal vein absent, the stigmal long but somewhat shorter than the marginal. Scutellum 

 simple. Second segment of abdomen occupying only a third of the surface, together with 

 the third segment which is shorter, occupying one half. Fourth segment transverse linear. 

 Propodeum at apes contracted into a short neck which appears like a petiole but is not 

 considered so. Pronotum about half the length of the scutum. Postscutellum short, crescentic, 

 foveate, the scutellum at apex very broadly or flatly convex. Propodeum with a short median 

 carina between its neck and the apex of postscutellum on either side of which are foveae 

 arranged transversely. Abdomen depressed, ovate, as long as the thorax. Hind femur swollen. 

 Parapsidal furrows distinct. Occiput concave. Frons broad. Propodeal spiracle minute,, 

 round. "Head lenticular. 



Male: — Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. MUSCIDEA BRUNNEIVENTRIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.30 mm. 



Black with a purplish tinge, the wings hyaline, the abdomen, -legs and antennae yellowish 

 brown, the head and thorax reticulated, shining, the propodeum foveate. Distal third of 

 abdomen above sordid. Lateral wing of propodeum (at the spiracle and for some distance 

 around) glabrous. Funicle 5 longest and widest, distinctly wider than long as are the others, 

 1 smallest, 2 longer, 3 and 4 subequal, still longer but distinctly smaller than 5 which is much 

 shorter than the normal pedicel. 



Described from one female captured in forest, August 7, 1913. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2783, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag ; head, a fore 

 wing, middle and hind tibia on a slide. 



MUSCIDEOPSIS new genus. 

 Female: — Like Muscidea but the mandibles tridentate, the postmarginal and stigmal 

 veins well developed, not very long but distinct, the postmarginal vein somewhat longer than 

 the stigmal and two thirds the length of the marginal. Scutellum with a punctate cross-furrow. 

 The second abdominal segment occupies about one half of the surface. Otherwise about the 

 same but the pronotum is not more than a fourth the length of the scutum. Habitus of 

 a baeine proctotypoid. Abdominal segments following 2 transverse linear. 



1. MUSCIDEOPSIS GOLDSMITHII new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 1 mm. 



Dark metallic blue, the abdomen, legs and antennas honey yellow, the wings hyaline, the 

 venation pale yellow. Body polished; frons with scattered minute setigerous punctures. 

 Cephalic coxae bluish. Parapsidal furrows punctate. Scutellum about as long as the scutum. 

 Thorax with a few long setae from minute punctures. Neck of propodeum appearing from 

 above like a short, stout abdominal petiole. Bing-joint minute; pedicel distinctly longer than 

 any of the funicle joints of which 5 is largest, thrice the size of 1 and distinctly wider than 

 long; all funicle joints wider than long, widening distad; club three fourths the length of the 

 funicle. Scape slender. Propodeum with strong, irregular carinae. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female taken by sweeping along a jungle-clad forest streamlet, 

 March 25, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2784, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head and 

 two hind tibiae on a slide. 



Dedicated to Oliver Goldsmith. 



