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MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
2. ABLERUS SPECIOSUS Girault. Female. 
Like the North American clisiocampce (Ashmead) but the pedicel is white, the club all 
black, the fore wings subhyaline, crossed by a subcrescentic stripe of black from the apex of 
the marginal vein; legs white excepting a black band across femora and tibiae just above and 
below knees. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns) and Mackay, Queensland. 
Type : No. Hy 1733, Queensland Museum. 
Host: Parasitic upon native coccids. 
One female captured at Mackay, October 21, 1911, by sweeping lantana and other 
bushes in a field. 
3. ABLERUS SEMIFUSCIPENNIS (Girault). Female. 
Azoius semifuscipennis Girault. 
Dark metallic blue, the legs coneolorous except knees, tips of tibia, tarsi (first four 
joints), most of pedicel and scape and joints 2 and 4 of the funicle which are white. Fore 
wings deeply infuscated from base to apex of stigmal vein, the distal margin of the fumation 
darker or accented. Funicle 1 a little the longest, 3 wider than long, 2 and 4 subequal in 
length. Ovipositor valves exserted for a third the length of the abdomen, coneolorous. 
Habitat : Ingham, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1734, Queensland Museum. 
4. ABLERUS SPECIOSISSIMUS (Girault). Female. 
Azotus speciosissimus Girault. 
Dark metallic grass green, the valves of ovipositor at tip, the parapsides except lateral 
end. legs (except distal tarsal joint) and most of antennas (a spot on scape above, side of club, 
base of pedicel and funicle joints 1 and 3 dark, submetallic) white. Fore wings hyaline but 
with a very obscure, faint stain across them under the marginal vein. Funicle 2 a little the 
longest. Head white. 
Habitat: Magnetic Island (Townsville), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1735, Queensland Museum. 
5. ABLERUS NYMPHA new species. 
Female: — Length, 1. 00 mm., excluding ovipositor which is half the length of the abdomen. 
Like clisiocampce (Ashmead) but much more robust and the club is wholly black; also 
the infuscation of the fore wing is intense, jet black; the first joint of hind tarsi is longer. 
Distal half of tibia yellowish. Face with a transverse black spot. 
Captured by sweeping in forest (2,000 feet), June, 1913. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1736, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
