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Alan P. Dodd: 



Differs from ovi Girault in the ligther color of the legs, and 

 the antennal scape and pedicel; the head and thorax in ovi are 

 coarsely, reticulately rugulose, in punctaticeps the head has large, 

 circular, close punctures, these punctures on the thorax forming 

 rugoso-punctuation ; also the head in ovi has distinct pubescence, 

 in punctaticeps the head is without pubescence ; otherwise the same 

 in all respects. Venation indistinct, the stigmal spot obsolete. 



H abitat: North Queensland (Nelson, near Cairns). Des- 

 cribet from one £ caught by sweeping in forest, 20 th March, '13 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type: South Australian Museum, a $ on a tag, plus a slide 

 bearing antennae and forewings. 



2. Scelio nigricoxa sp. nov. 

 cJ Length, 4 mm. 



As in punctaticeps Dodd but differs in that the coxae are 

 black, and the antennae are black (the scape is slightly suffused 

 with red) ; also the stigmal vein in punctaticeps is slightly con- 

 vexly curved, the convexity distad, as in ovi Girault, while in 

 nigricoxa the stigmal vein is quite straight, as in australis Froggatt. 

 Antennae probably as in australis Froggatt, the third funicle 

 joint being dilated (the head was lost before the antennae could 

 be properly examined). 



Habitat: North Queensland (Nelson, near Cairns). Des- 

 cribed from one <J caught by sweeping in forest, 3rd May, '13 

 (A. A. Girault). 



Type: South Australian Museum, a <J on a tag, plus a slide 

 bearing wings. 



Genus Macroteleia Westwood. 



Macroteleia polita sp. nov. 

 $ Length, 2.25 mm. 



Like unicolor Dodd but the head and mesonotum are almost 

 smooth, bearing only a very few setigerous pinpunctures, whereas 

 unicolor has scattered but distinct punctures; also the Ist funicle 

 joint is distinctly longer than the pedicel, and the 2 nd is distinctly 

 shorter than the Ist. Like inornata Dodd but that species has the 

 coxae and first five antennal joints golden yellow, the centre of 

 the abdomen brown, not black, the pedicel is as long as the 1 st 

 funicle joint and the 2nd is scarcely shorter than the Ist. 



Habitat: North Queensland (Nelson, near Cairns). Des- 

 cribed from one £ caught by sweeping in forest, 2nd August, 

 '13 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type: South Australian Museum, a $ on a tag, plus a slide 

 bearing antennae and forewings. 



Genus Opisthacantha Ashmead. 



Opisthacantha giraulti sp. nov. 

 ? Length, 1.60 mm. 



