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MEMOIBS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
9. APROSTOCETUS MONTANUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.33 mm. 
Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; sculpture usual for the tribe; legs intense 
lemon yellow except the coxa) (second coxa) yellow except at base) ; proximal half or more 
of hind femora eoncolorous, abdomen suffused with brownish; tegula), side of prothorax 
(proplime), cephalic margin of pronotum and a narrow transverse line near caudal margins 
of same on each side of meson, bright lemon yellow. Antenna) yellow, the pedicel dusky at 
base, the first funicle joint a little longer than the others which are subquadrate, each a 
little shorter than the pedicel. Club with a very minute nipiffe. Mandibles weakly tridentate, 
the head more or less yellowish about the face. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from a female captured by sweeping forest along top of second coast range 
of mountains (1,500 feet), May 21, 1912. 
Eahitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1781, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. 
The pronotum, between the nwginal lines of yellow, is more or less yellow, leaving a 
rather broad eoncolorous path down the meson. This species is probably a Syntomospliyrum. 
10. APROSTOCETUS PURPUREUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.30 mm. 
Very much like movtamis but purple, the caudal margin of pronotum, head (except 
occiput), a large spot near each lateral margin of pronotum, propleurm, inner and cephalic 
margins of the axilla), base of abdomen on each side and a narrow cross-stripe just before tip, 
lemon yellow; abdomen brown. Funicle joints all wider than long, all distinctly shorter than 
the pedicel, joints 2 and 3 nearly twice wider than long; club nipple small but distinct. 
Mandibles with three long slender teeth. 
Described from one female captured in the forest, November 29, 1911. 
Eahitai: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type : No. Ey 1782, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
11. APROSTOCETUS FLAVICAPUT new species. 
Female: Length, 1.20 mm. 
Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the abdomen longer than the thorax, conic-ovate, 
dark; legs except coxa), white, the head yellow, the antenna) dusky yellow, the scape and pedicel 
paler; joints 2 and 3 of funicle subequal, shortest, joint 1 longer than the pedicel -which is 
subequal to joint 2 of the funicle which is somewhat longer than wide; club with a small 
nipple. Propodeum very short at the meson. Mandibles tridentate. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured from a window in an iron foundry, December 26, 
1911. 
Eahitat: Mareeba, Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1783, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
