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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Eabitat: Meerawa (Cairns district), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1652, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide with the type head of Opheliminus longfellowi Girault. 
Genus PSEUDACRIAS Girault. 
Female : — Characterised by bearing a bi- or tricarinate propodeal meson, the propodeum 
usually with five distinct earinm, including the two lateral earing*; propodeum polished, its 
caudal margin also strongly carinate. Scutellum more or less polished. Second abdominal 
segment much the longest, occupying from a third to over a half of the surface, the petiole 
short and stout, slightly wider than long. Parapsidal furrows usually complete, very narrow 
or like sutures and terminating in a shallow depression caudad. Stigmal and postmarginal 
veins short, the former a little the longer. Mandibles bidentate, the inner tooth usually with 
several minute sinuses just proximad of apex, mesad. Thorax reticulated, the lines raised, 
the pronotum polished but longitudinally wrinkled along cephalic margin, transverse. Funiele 
3-jointed, the club 2-jointed, the second joint terminating in a prominent seta; three ring- 
joints. Hind tibial spur stout, half the length of the hind tarsi. Genus recovered from the 
Pediobiini (type re-examined). 
Male : — Not known. 
Type: Pseuclacrias micans Girault. 
1. PSEUDACRIAS MICANS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Shining bluish black, the propodeum with a straight median carina on each side of 
the meson, the middle of the three absent; tarsi white, except distal joint; wings hyaline; 
first funiele joint slightly the longest, the second club joint short, the first longer, longer 
than wide, subequal to the first funiele joint. Pronotum and distal half of scutellum shining 
but the latter with faint polygonal reticulation, the basal half of scutellum longitudinally 
striate. Parapsidal furrows represented by a fovea caudad and slightly indicated cephalad. 
Eabitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle. 
Type: No. Ey 1653, Queensland Museum. 
2. PSEUDACRIAS CHALYBS new species. 
Female : — Length, 1 . 80 mm. 
Metallic cyaneus, the wings hyaline; proximal tarsal joints pallid; proximal club joint 
much longer than the distal yet not long, the funiele joints not long, the pedicel much smaller 
than them. Parapsidal furrows complete, the meson of propodeum tricarinate. 
Described from a single female captured by sweeping grass along a forest streamlet,. 
August 13, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Eabitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1654, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
3. PSEUDACRIAS AENEUS new species. 
Female : — Length, 1 . 65 mm. 
Dark aeneous green, the abdomen darker; the same otherwise as the second species 
excepting that the second abdominal segment is longer yet not occupying quite half of the 
