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median carina, its cephalic margin carinate and laterad of the 

 spiracle, there is a longitudinal groove bounded along each side 

 by obtuse ridges. Mandibles tridentate. Postmarginal vein longer 

 than the stigmal. Abdomen long, pointed conic-ovate, the ovi- 

 positor barely exserted. Propodeum with a fine scaly sculpture. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Secodella lineata new species. 



Female: Length, 1,85 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the abdomen much darker, the wings 

 hyaline; antennae and legs black, the tarsi snow white, except the 

 distal joint. Polygonally sculptured, the propodeum much smoother. 

 Fore wings with about six or seven straight lines of discal cilia, 

 of which the second from cephalic margin Starts at the apex of 

 the blade, proceeds straight proximad for some distance, then 

 abruptly changes angle and proceeds straight to the tip of the 

 stigmal knob from which it proceeds for quite a distance straight 

 proximo-caudad, not quite parallel with the costal margin. Second 

 funicle joint longest, a fifth longer than wide, the first and fourth 

 more or less subequal, subquadrate, the fourth a little wider than 

 long; funicle joint 3 only sligthly shorter than 2. Distal club joint 

 a little shorter than the other two. 



(From one specimen, similarly enlarged.) 



Male: Unknown. 



Described from one female specimen captured by sweeping 

 foliage of lantana and grass near Mackay, Q., October 21, 1911. 



Habitat: Australia — Mackay, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above spe- 

 cimen on a tag and a slide with the head and two legs. 



Tetrastichini. 



Epomphaloides new genus. 



Female: Like N eomphaloidella Girault but the scutum 

 without a median grooved line. Otherwise like Tetrastichus. 

 Mandibles tridentate, the inner tooth shortest. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Epomphaloides flavus new species. 



Female: Length, 1,35 mm. 



Lemon yellow, sculptured like species of Tetrastichus, the 

 wings hyaline ; a little rounded spot at caudal margin of propleurum 

 dorsad, just off the notum, two small spots near the tegula, the 

 propodeal spiracle and two dots on a longitudinal line on each 

 side of the abdomen (dorsal aspect) on segments 3 and 4, black. 

 In the cephalic third of mesoscutum, an obscure brownish dot on each 

 side. Venation pale yellow, also the legs, scape and pedicel, the rest of 

 antennae yellow, suffused somewhat with dusky. Third club joint 



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