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Genus ZAOMMOMYIA Ashmead.* 
1. ZAOMMOMYIA OCULATA Girault. Female. 
Dark metallic blue-green, the propodeum and part of axilla) reddish yellow, also the 
abdomen except basal fourth ; venter of body yellowish brown, also the legs, which are, however, 
paler distad of the femora. An obscure stained area under the distal half of marginal vein 
on the fore wing. Antenna) S-jointed, the club 3-jointed, the third joint terminating in a 
long spinelike projection. Second funiele joint longer than the first. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle. 
Type: No. Hy 1664, Queensland Museum. 
A second female was captured in a jungle pocket July 10, 1913. 
2 . ZAOMMOMYIELLA SAINTPIERREI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.35 mm. 
Orange yellow, the head deep metallic blue, the base of abdomen rather narrowly, 
except at meson, metallic purplish, the abdomen more yellowish, less reddish than the thorax. 
Wings hyaline. Scape yellow, rest of antenna black, the pedicel elongate, about twice the 
length of the first funiele joint, much longer than the second which is longer than the first 
yet only about a half longer than wide. Mandibles trident.ate. Club acuminate, the terminal 
seta of the third joint long. Scutum punctate. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in a jungle pocket, July 30, 1913 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1665, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide with the type appendages of Cirrospiloviella fasciatus. 
3. ZAOMMOMYIELLA ABNORMI3 new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.35 mm. Abdomen slender, conical, longer than the thorax. 
Brilliant metallic blue, the slender abdomen coppery, blue at base, the propodeum, all 
of legs and a short abdominal petiole reddish brown, the tibiae and tarsi white. Antenna) 
black. Fore wings with a large brownish blotch appended from the stigmal vein, filling the 
blade nearly to each margin and much of it. under the distal third of marginal vein. Propodeum 
with some irregular depressions, washed with blue mesad. Thorax polygonally scaly. Parapsidal 
furrows complete. Mandibles tridentate. Oral area narrowly yellow. Antenna 1 inserted not 
far from the clypeus; distal club joint with a long, stout seta, nearly as long as itself, the 
first joint longest ; funiele 1 globular, distinctly shorter than 2 which is distinctly longer 
than wide, subequal to club joint 1. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping edge of jungle (A. P. Dodd), 
September Id, 1913. 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. ny 1666, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag. 
* ZAOMMOMYIELLA new genus (type : ZaommomyU oculata Girault). The funiele is but 2-jointed ; in 
Zaommomyia it is 3-jointed. 
