MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
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EUDEROMYIA new genus. 
Female: — Antenna) 7- jointed, without ring-joints, the club slender, 3-jointed; seutellum 
with a punctate groove down each side of the meson, somewhat over midway between it and 
the lateral margins; abdomen slender. Parapsidal furrows complete. Postmarginal vein barely 
developed. Mandibles tridentate. Club terminating in a nipple. Submarginal vein broken, 
much shorter than the marginal. 
Male : — Not known. 
Type : The following species. 
1. EUDEROMYIA CARLYLEI new species. 
Female: — Length, 0.80 mm. 
Dark metallic green, the abdomen purple, the wings subhyaline, the tibia) and tarsi 
yellowish. Marginal fringes a little longer than usual, the fore wings with a regular, complete 
line of discal cilia from apex of stigmal vein to apex of wing. Antenna) black, the scape white 
except at tip, the pedicel shorter than either of the funicle joints which are distinctly longer 
than wide, the club joints nearly as long. Fore wings with about a dozen lines of discal 
ciliation across the widest portion. Abdomen longer than thorax, the latter finely scaly. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, October 9, 1912. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1707, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
The species is dedicated to Thomas Carlyle. 
CLOSTEROCEROIDES new genus. 
Female : — Like Clostcrocerus Westwood but the postmarginal and stigmal veins long, the 
former the longer, the antenna) 9- jointed with two short ring-joints, the funicle 4-jointed, 
the club solid, long, the flagellum fusiform. Propodeum with an abbreviated median carina 
at base. Mandibles bidentate. 
Male : — Not known. 
Type: The following species. 
1. CLOSTEROCEROIDES TRIFASCIATIPENNI3 new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.26 mm. 
Deep metallic green and sculptured like species of Clostcrocerus ; legs and antennae black 
but the tibiae whitish before tip, the tarsi white except distal joint. Propodeum smooth or 
nearly. Mesothorax with two parallel dark stripes down middle to about centre of seutellum; 
also two parallel dark stripes across vertex (eaudad) from each lateral ocellus. Fore wings 
with three jet black stripes across them, the first one (proximad) narrowest, from the break 
of the submarginal vein, the second closer to the first than to the third and from near the 
base of the marginal vein; the third longest and somewhat wider than the second, from under 
the whole of the postmarginal vein. The blade otherwise slightly, uniformly stained. Face 
below antenna) yellow’. Fourth funicle joint longest, a little wider than long; club as long 
as the two preceding funicle joints, spined at apex. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in the forest, February, 1913. 
