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ends of the eyes, the long petiole of the abdomen and the shape 

 of the latter which is long and compressed, subcylindrical, twice 

 the length of the thorax; and in the postmarginal vein being 

 absent. 



Smicromorpha new genus. 



Male: Resembling in the eyes and antennae many Diptera, 

 in the shape of the body many ichneumon flies but in general 

 habitus the genera of the Chalcitellini. Head wider than long, the 

 eyes very large, occupying the whole side of the head and conver- 

 ging ventrad, the frons very narrow, the antennae inserted far 

 below the middle of the face yet above the ends of the eyes, 9-jointed 

 without a ring-joint, the flagellum subsetiform as in the Diptera, 

 the club solid and longer than any of the funicle joints which are 

 all longer than wide, the first shortest and cupshaped; pedicel 

 large and ovate, nearly as long as the club joint. Marginal vein 

 very short, not more than twice longer than wide at apex, the stigmal 

 about half its length. Parapsidal furrows complete. Scutellum 

 simple, with a shallow median groove, the propodeum simple and 

 with a deeper median groove which widens distad. Posterior femur 

 beneath armed with many (about 55 — 60) minute, comblike, 

 black teeth, equal in size, the first appearing to be short er and 

 more obtuse, the second of two coalesced nearly to tip, the margin 

 itself scalloped from base up to the first tooth and therefore wavy. 

 Middle tibia with a spur. One mandible falcate as in the Eucharidae, 

 the other short and acute; the falcate one without teeth, long like 

 a naked sword. Otherwise as in Smicra. 



Female: What I take to be the female has the antennae 

 and abdomen missing but agress otherwise with the male except 

 that the eyes are smaller, extending only two thirds the way to 

 the mouth, the antennae above their ends, the frons broad. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Smicromorpha doddi new species. 



Male: Length, about 5.50 mm. 



Honey yellow, the wings stained a little just distad from the 

 venation, the parapside with a dark reddish brown spot against 

 the middle of each mesal margin; abdomen reddish brown. Sculp- 

 ture as in Smicra. Petiole of abdomen about as long as the hind 

 coxa. Scutum obscurely dark reddish, its lateral margin yellow. 



Fe male: About the same but the scutum distinctly dark 

 reddish. 



Described from a single pair kindly given me by Mr. F. P. 

 Dodd of Kuranda, to whom I dedicate this species, not only for 

 the preservation of this peculiar form but also because of his 

 extensive collecting in many groups of insects in the northern 

 part of Queensland thus preserving to science many forms which, 

 but for his efforts, may have been utterly lost to us. 



Habit at: Australia — Northern Territory (Port Darwin). 



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