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surface (as in the type species), the thorax is reticulated, the lines not raised and forming 
diamonds, the smooth path down meson of scutellum is rather obscure and the pronotum is 
finely reticulated. Antennas with three ring-joints, the distal two short: pedicel longer, not 
much shorter than the first funicle joint. Inner or second tooth of mandible simple. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping foliage in a jungle pocket, June 5, 
1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hyl655, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
4. PSEUDACRIAS QUADRIC ARINATUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.60 mm. 
Differing from the preceding two species in lacking the median of the three carinas at 
the meson but a space is left for it; it is slightly indicated in fact, the median earineo diverging. 
Brilliant metallic green, the abdomen dark; like aeneus but the thorax with scaly network 
but not raised as in aeneus and there is a large distinct glabrous area at base of scutellum; 
proximal three fourths of second segment of abdomen and propodeum polished (the latter 
not so distad and Iaterad), the rest of abdomen densely scaly. Lateral carina? forked distad. 
Petiole finely longitudinally lined ; basal three fourths of abdominal segment 2 green. 
Pronotum glabrous. Antenna? concolorous; first funicle joint longest, 3 globular; club 1 much 
longer than 2. Mandibles 2-dentate, the second tooth as in aeneus. Second ring- joint very short. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by miscellaneous sweeping, August 13, 1913 (A. P. 
Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1656, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. 
Genus METACRIAS Girault. 
Differs from Entedon Dalman in having the median carina of the propodeum bounded on 
each side by a deep sulcus whose lateral margins are acute, the propodeal spiracle round and 
moderately small and the hind tibial spur elongate. The parapsidal furrows are about complete 
from cephalic margin but difficult to see, being shallow. The genus was first placed with the 
Pediobiini. (Type re-examined.) 
1. METACRIAS AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Dark metallic bluish, the wings hyaline; legs concolorous, the knees, tips of tibia? and 
tarsi white. Antenna? concolorous, the first funicle joint nearly as long as the club, the distal 
one subequal to the pedicel. Head and thorax coarsely reticulately punctate. 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1199, Queensland Museum. 
