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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Abdomen with not more than three cross-stripes; scutum with median line metallic green 
at middle, the rest yellow. 
Lemon yellow; inner margin of parapside, median line of scutellum to distal fifth, 
the same of scutum nearly centrally, the cephalic end with a line across it 
and two short transverse lines in centre of abdomen and opposite them, on each 
side, three spots in a line longitudinally, metallic green. spcciosa Girault. 
Fore wings with a substigmal spot. 
Like oonsobrinus but the postseutellum is green down all of the median line and the footlike 
lateral projections of the abdominal stripes are thicker, stripe 7 is complete and 
there is a dumbbell- shaped area at the meson distad of stripe 6. 
speciosissima Girault. 
Genus ACHBYSOCHABOIDBS Girault. 
Similar to Gyrolcisella Girault but the postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal, the 
scutellum with a rather conspicuous fovea on each side of the median line, the funicle 3-jointed, 
the club 2- jointed. 
1. ACHRYSOCHAROIDES SARCOPHAGUS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Chrysocharis sarcophagus Girault. 
Bright metallic green, tinged with coppery and purple, the wings hyaline; legs white 
except coxa>; antenna) black, the scape dusky; funicle joints cylindrical ovate, longer than the 
pedicel, the first somewhat the longest. 
E ah it at : Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. Ey 1688, Queensland Museum. 
BRACHYCHRYSOCHARELLA new genus. 
Female: — Head rounded, the mandibles bidentate, the antenna) inserted somewhat below 
the middle of the face, short and strongly clavate somewhat as in RMcnopelteUa but the pedicel 
very much longer than the funicle and there are only nine joints, two ring-joints, two funicle 
joints, and a 3-jointed club, the latter much swolleu and ovate. Club not terminating in a seta. 
Otherwise as in Rhicnopellella except that the marginal fringes of the fore wing are a little 
longer than usual. Hind tibiae with one spur. 
Male: — Not known. 
Type: The following species. 
1. BRACHYCHRYSOCHARELLA DUBIA new species.* 
Female : — Length, 1 mm. 
Dark metallic aeneous green, the wings hyaline; coxa) and the hind femur concolorous, 
each of the legs pallid; antennge pallid dusky. Thorax finely scaly. 
Described from two females captured from the foliage of Eucalyptus in forest, November 
9, 1911. 
Eabilat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1689, Queensland Museum, the above specimens on a slide. 
The stout abdomen hides the ovipositor so that I am not sure they are females; there 
are two funicle joints. 
* For other species, see p. 170. 
