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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
2 . APR0ST0CER0L0IDE3 MARGIVENTRIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.80 mm. 
Deep orange yellow, the wings hyaline; legs concolorous; proximal half of abdomen 
margined with black (dorsal edge), the extreme tip of abdomen black and a minute dot in 
centre about opposite the ends of the marginal stripes; an obscure black spot near tegnla in the 
cephalic part of each axilla. Scape concolorous, also the pedicel (but black above), the flagellum 
black. First funiele joint distinctly longer than the club, the second more or less subequal 
to the club, the third distinctly shorter than it yet over a third longer than the pedicel. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping low vegetation in the forest on the 
side of Mount Pyramid, November 21, 1911 (elevation about 500 feet). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Iiy 185$. Queensland Museum, the above female on a tag, the head on a slide 
with the type head of Ootetrastichus grotiusi G-irault. 
SYNTOMOSPHYRELLA new genus. 
Female: — Like Syntomosphyrum Foerster but the antennas with two ring- joints, the 
club only 2- jointed, nine joints in all. Scutum simple. Mandibles tridentate. Scutellum with 
four grooved lines. Postmarginal vein distinctly developed, three fourths the length of the 
stigmal; marginal vein as long as the submarginal. 
Male: — Not known. 
Type: The species described herewith {fuscipennis ) . 
1. SYNTOMOSPHYRELLA FUSCIPENNIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.10 mm. 
Black, the abdomen brown, the sculpture as in Tetrastichus ; abdomen with metallic 
lustre; fore wing with a broad fuscous stripe across it from the marginal vein; legs concolorous 
except tibia? and tarsi and much of cephalic femora which are yellowish. Antenna? and face 
dusky yellow, the funiele joints barely unequal, more or less quadrate, each shorter than the 
pedicel. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping along the side of Mount Pyramid 
(1,000 feet), forest, August 17, 1912. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1853, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
2. SYNTOMOSPHYRELLA AURIFLAVA new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.18 mm. Short and stout. 
Deep golden yellow, the wings hyaline, the other appendages concolorous; cephalic 
margin of pronotum narrowly, a spot near insertion of fore wing and several incisions of the 
abdomen (obscurely but forming two-four narrow transverse stripes, wide apart and broadly 
interrupted at meson), dusky; scape dusky above, compressed, the third funiele joint sub- 
