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Like hyalina Girault but the legs all yellow brown, the tro- 

 chanters, tarsi, distal fifth of hind coxa and proximal half of hind 

 femur, white. In the hind femur, a dusky spot near upper edge 

 at distal third, the teeth black ; Prolongation of hind tibiae somewhat 

 longer and more curved than usual. Abdomen wholly purplish 

 black; tegulae yellow brown; abdomen without a petiole but stalked. 

 Funicle black brown, the club black, the pedicel and scape yellow 

 brown. Posterior femora beneath with nine teeth, the last tooth 

 yellow, the eighth tooth a mere tubercle, teeth 1, 3 and 4 longest 

 of the black teeth, the ninth as large as 1 or nearly; teeth 5 — 8, 

 a desending series of heights. First funicle joint longest, nearly 

 as long as the pedicel, the last three joints plainly wider than 

 long, joint 4 (funicle) quadrate; club plainly not as long as the 

 funicle. Propodeum with irregulär foveae, rugose, no median 

 carina, the apex of the scutellum smooth and shining distad of 

 the transverse suture, the head and thorax otherwise scaly and 

 usual. 



Male: Not known. 



From one female captured by sweeping in a jungle pocket, 

 May 11, 1913. 



Habitat: Australia — Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a tag with a slide bearing an antenna and a posterior leg. 



Genus Podagrion Spinola. 

 1. Podagrion worcesteri new species. 



Female: Length, 2.75 mm, excluding ovipositor which is 

 about the same length. 



Agreeing somewhat with washingtoni Girault in coloration 

 but the legs are yellow brown, the tarsi white while the yellow 

 on the abdomen is dull and at sides and venter of base; the fore 

 wings have a distinct dusky, curved dash from the knob of the 

 stigmal vein which extends about half way across the wing; it is 

 not black, merely dusky. Posterior femora beneath with eleven 

 teeth, all distinct, the first largest, then 5 and 7, 3 and 9; 2 and 11 

 smallest, then 4, then 6, 8 and 10 which are subequal, each not 

 more than half the length of 1. Coxae green, the tibiae darkexcept 

 at tip, at base broadly ringed with yellow white. First funicle 

 joint much longer than the pedicel, the distal one somewhat wider 

 than long; joints 2 to 4 rather long, 1 longest. Disk of propodeum 

 without a median carina, shallowly concaved, the concavity 

 punctate, without it the surface rugose and sulcate, the middle 

 of the dorso-lateral aspect with a conspicuous oval and deep 

 fovea whose long axis is longitudinal; punctures of propodeal disk 

 about the same as those of the rest of the thorax. Scutellum 

 smooth and shining distad of the transverse line or suture. 



Male: Unknown. 



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