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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
6. ACHRY30CHARIS LEIBNITZI Girault. Female. 
See table. 
Habitat: Mount Tambourine, Queensland. Jungle. 
Type: No. 1. 1342, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 
7. ACHRY30CHARI3 TRXFA3CXATU3 new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.30 mm. 
Like bifasciatus Girault but differing in that of the thorax only the whole of scutum 
is faintly washed with metallic green and there are three distinct black stripes across the 
abdomen at about the middle portion and two rather large dusky spots at sides of base 
(dorsad) ; also median line of scutellum from base is slightly metallic and each axilla at 
cephalic end and the mesal margin of each parapside; propodeum with a number of dark areas; 
the blotch on the fore wing is more distinct but from the distal part of the marginal vein 
in both species and a cross-stripe. The abdominal stripes aro farther apart and characteristic. 
The same otherwise. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping grass along a forest streamlet, August 
7, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hyl679, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
8. ACHRYSOCHARIS CLARISCUTELLUM new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.15 mm. 
Like maculatipennis but the scutellum very highly polished yet still finely scaly (through 
a lens appearing smooth and brilliantly polished; mesad it is nearly without fine sculpture); 
and the antenna) are black, the first funicle joint not small and globular but plainly longer 
than wide while the three club joints are all shortened; pedicel longest of the flagellum, the 
distal funicle joint next longest. Proximal half of scape white. Like leibnitrd except that the 
scutellum is polished and the mandibles with only two distinct, acute, equal teeth, the third 
subobsolete, very much shorter than the others and barely indicated; also the club joints are 
shortened. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping forest growths along the summit of 
the second coast range of mountains (1,500 feet), May 21, 1912. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1680, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
9. ACHRYSOCHARIS BREVICORNIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.15 mm. 
Like maculatipennis except that the wings are hyaline, the hind femur distinctly concolor- 
ous, the hind knees, all of other legs except coxa?, white; antenna) black except proximal half or 
less of scape, the pedicel no longer than the funicle joints which are short, the first subquadrate, 
the second globular and a little shorter. Scutellum with the usual sculpture. Mandibles as irp 
clariscutellum. 
