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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
2. TRICHAPOROIDELLA DECORA new species. 
Female: — Length, 2.10 mm. 
Wholly dark metallic green excepting face below antenna) (and the corresponding part 
of occiput), margins of eyes on vertex narrowly, the scape (except along upper edge) and 
legs (except hind coxa) which are lemon yellow (also pedicel slightly beneath). Club slightly 
longer than the first funicle joint which is over one and a half times longer than the pedicel, 
the latter distinctly shorter than the third funicle joint, two thirds (about) the length of the 
club. Propodeum with a median carina, densely scaly, rougher than the usual fine sculpture 
of rest of thorax. 
Male : — -Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping grass along a forest streamlet, August 
7, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type : No. Hy 1803, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
3. TRICHAPOROIDELLA SUBAENEA new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.25 mm. 
Like aenea but the lower part of the face, an ovate spot in the centre of the abdomen 
at base and the abdomen at proximal fifth beneath, golden yellow. Propodeum densely scaly. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, July 9, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1804, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
4. TRICHAPOROIDELLA DUBIA new species. 
Female: — Length, 2.30 mm. 
Like aenea but the face below antenna? yellow; propodeum as in decora, punctate but 
the surface no coarser in grain than the scaly scutellum. Median carina well developed and 
as in decora. One mandible bidentate, the second tooth broadly truncate, the other the same 
but a scoopcd-out portion intervenes between the two teeth and the second tooth is only 
slightly broad at apex and there obliciuely truncate. In decora both mandibles are tridentate, 
the two outer teeth acute and distinct; in subaenea they are about the same. Spiracle small, 
round, over its own width from the postscutellum ; no lateral carina. The legs are intense lemon 
yellow while those of decora are pale. Tips of coxa) yellow. 
Male : — Not known. 
Habitat: Ayr, Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. Hy 1805, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
