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MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
3. APROSTOCETUS VIRIDIFLAVUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.60 mm. 
Intense greenish yellow, the wings hyaline; immaculate, flagellum darker, the funicle 
joints long, the second one a little the longest, the first a little the shortest, subequal to the 
rather long pedicel which is black above at base; distal club joint nippled, dusky, shortest 
(excluding the nipple) ; flagellum with scattered, long hairs. Mandibles tridentate. A dark 
area on abdomen just before tip. 
Male: — Unknown. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, June 27, 1913 (slight jungle 
wa s encountered ) . 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1775, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. 
Later, on August 5, 1913, another female of this beautiful species was captured in 
the forest. 
4. APROSTOCETUS FLAVUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.18 mm. 
Bright lemon yellow, the wings hyaline, the antennae and legs concolorous; two cross- 
stripes of black-brown on dorsal abdomen just at the middle, the first or proximal one only 
represented by a short part on each side, medially widely separated. A long subfuscous spot 
down cephalo-mesal side of each axilla and the middle of each half of the scutum is 
embrowned or stained; pronotum with a short, tolerably wide cross-marking at meson. 
Propodeum with a short median carina, its cephalic margin fuscous. Funicle joints all a little 
longer than wide, shorter than the elongate pedicel; ring- joint large. Mandibles tridentate. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping on the forest downs, July 14, 1912. 
Habitat: Huglienden, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1776, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. 
5. APROSTOCETUS MARGIVENTRIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.20 mm. 
Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline, the abdomen, knees, tibia) and tarsi pale lemon 
yellow, the rest of the legs concolorous; abdomen margined down each side rather broadly with 
metallic purple nearly to tip and crossed on the distal half by thin, rather faint purplish 
stripes; immediate tip of abdomen purple and the base very narrowly so. Antenna? pale, the 
club rather dusky. Second and third funicle joints subequal, distinctly longer than the first 
and subequal to the pedicel which is purplish above at base. Club with a short terminal spine. 
Mandibles tridentate. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from a single female captured by sweeping in a jungle pocket, July 21, 1913 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1777, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
