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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
along the propodeum. Legs pale, the antenna) white suffused with dusky. Fore wings 
with a stain in the blade. Distal club joint black; funiclo joints not very much longer than 
wide. Mandibles tridentate. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in a jungle pocket, July 24, 1913 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. H y 1698, Queensland Museum, the head on a slide (the body was accident- 
ally lost). 
3o ACHRYSOCHARELLA SEMIFLAVIFRONS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.10 mm. 
Head and thorax bright aeneous green and reticulated, the abdomen, face below 
antenna), tegula and its vicinity, golden yellow, the abdomen metallic greenish at distal third, 
crossed by a dusky stripe just proximad of the green and a second dusky stripe indicated 
just proximad of the other by a transverse dash from the edge on each side. Wings subhyaline, 
the postmarginal vein subequal to the stigmal. Parapsidal furrows complete, the propodeum 
with a short median carina (apparently two or a pair or else a broad, flat one). Legs yellow, 
the coxa) dark at base. Antenna) black, scape and pedicel white, black above, the pedicel a 
little shorter than either funiclo joint. Mandibles distinctly tridentate. 
From one specimen captured by sweeping in forest, April 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1699, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
4. ACHRYSOCHARELLA AENEA new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.25 mm. 
Running to Nesomyia Aslimead in the Pediobiini but the antennae with two ring-joints, 
the club 3-jointed, the third joint terminating in a conical or spine-like projection; funicle 
2-jointed, both joints somewhat longer than wide and only slightly shorter than the pedicel; 
club tapering. Propodeum smooth, faintly reticulated, non-car in ate but with a boomerang- 
shaped sulcus over (cephaiad of) and partly around the small spiracle. Abdomen sessile, ovate. 
Scutellum simple. Stigmal vein short, the postmarginal barely developed. Hind tibia with 
one spur. Fore wings with short marginal cilia. Cheeks rather short, the head usual. 
Parapsidal furrows obscure but at least half complete, not deep. Dark metallic purple, the 
abdomen at base blue-green, the wings hyaline; tibiso yellow-brown, the tarsi pale; antennas 
dusky, the scape yellowish brown. Thorax densely, reticulate-punctate, the propodeum much 
smoother. 
Male : — Ndt known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in a jungle pocket, July 21, 1913 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No .Hyl700, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head and a 
hind tibia on a slide. 
