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A. A. Girault: 



minating in a nonarticulated nipple. Body nonmetallic. Abdomen 

 with an obscure petiole, practically sessile, the median carina of 

 the propodeum forked just before base and the propodeum with 

 a short neck. Parapsidal furrows well-defined. Scutellum with 

 two grooves. Mandibles with about six teeth. Hind tibial spurs 

 double. Spiracular sulci narrowly carinated along each margin, 

 long, the median carinae in reality consisting of two very thin 

 carinae, parallel. Segment 2 of abdomen short, segments 3 and 4 

 subequal, longest, the abdomen long ovate. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. S ympiesomorphelleus suttneri new species. 



Female: Length, 1.96 mm. 



Ochreous yellow, the wings hyaline, the antennae black except 

 under parts of scape, the legs wholly concolorous but somewhat 

 paler than the body, the central portion of the abdomen at base 

 pale yellow, the purplish yellow of the rest of the abdomen projecting 

 into the yellow obtusely, at the meson. Thorax scaly, the surface 

 of the propodeum less so. First funicle joint longest, about as long 

 as the club, longer than the pedicel. 



Male: Not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in a jungle 

 pocket, May 26, 1913. 



Habit at: Australia — Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a tag and a slide with the head and a hind leg. 



Respectfully dedicated to Bertha von Suttner for her Die 

 Waffen nieder. 



Elachertini. 



Cirrospilomyia new genus. 



Female: Like Cirrospilodelleus Girault but the abdomen 

 sessile, the club 4-jointed, the fourth joint minute and conic and 

 without a nipple, the antennae thus 10-jointed, the pedicel long, 

 two ring-joints; also the mandibles are only 3-dentate, the inner 

 tooth broadly truncate and short, on a line with the base of the 

 second tooth. Propodeum without a median carina. One tibial 

 spur on hind legs. Abdomen large, much wider than the thorax 

 and a half longer, ovate. Scutellum without grooves. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Cirrospilomyia magniventris new species. 



Female: Length, 2.20 mm. 



Dark metallic aeneous green, the wings hyaline, the venation 

 pallid, the discal ciliation of the fore wing short. Abdomen purplish 

 black, with a banded appearance due to the light incisions between 

 the segments. Parapsidal furrows well marked. Legs yellowish 



