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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
than the pedicel and the different coloration, only the laterocandal angle of 
pronotum, the lateral and candal margins of the scutum and the median line of 
the latter being bright lemon yellow. Hind femora swollen, the front ones less 
so, the legs pale yellow. Funiele joints all cylindrical, 24 longest but not much 
longer than any of the others. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, August 12 r . 
1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1575, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
Genus POLYNEMOIDEA Girault. 
Habitus of Polynema ^ venation and wings of Cosmocomoidea but the 
marginal fringes are long,* antenna' of Polynema but the club is indistinctly 
3-jointed: tarsi 4-jointed; abdomen subsessile, no distinct petiole, no phragma, 
the ovipositor very long, slender, exserted for a length equal to more than that 
of the abdomen. Parapsidal furrows complete; scutellum rectangular, mesopost- 
scutellum larger than it. Propodeum still longer. Antennae 11-jointed, the scape 
serrate beneath. Strigils present. Type, the following species. 
1. POLYNEMOIDEA VARICORNXS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Black, the first four funiele joints of antennae white, the legs yellowish 
brown. A stain along the anterior margin of fore wing around the apex and 
broadly across from the marginal and stigmal veins. First funiele joint much 
smaller than the pedicel, the next two joints very long, joint 2 a little shorter 
than 3 and subequal to the club in length. Sculpture fine. 
Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. 
Type: No. 1. 122S, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 
2. POLYNEMOIDEA LINCOLNI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1-15 mm. Ovipositor not exserted. 
Pale brownish yellow, the head, cephalic third of thorax (along pro- and 
mesonotum) and distal eight antennal segments, black. Fore wings dusky out 
as far as the apex of the venation and distad more or less obscurely along each 
margin. Abdomen dusky yellowish. Second funiele joint longest, more or less 
equal to the pedicel. Mesopostscutellum with a sclerite back of it much like the 
postscutellum of a normal scutellum. Otherwise about as in varicornis but the 
marginal fringes of the fore wing are much shorter. Mandibles bidentate. 
Male : — Not known. 
