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MEMO IBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
5. ATOPOSOMA GROTIUSI new sjoecies. 
Female: — Length, 1.10 mm. 
Greenish or lemon yellow, the pronotum pale green, the head orange yellow, wonderfully 
marked with black metallic green in this manner: The parapsides, a broad stripe down meson 
and each side of the long pronotum, two spots in the upper part of the occiput, a bullet-shaped 
spot at base of seutellum at the meson, a rounded spot at cephalic margin of each axilla 
nearly centrally, the scutum with a large acuminafely conical marking whose broad base fills 
rest from side to side but quickly recedes, all of propodeum and 0 or 7 narrow stripes across 
the abdomen (stripes 4- and 5 close together ; there is also a narrow median stripe); also a 
spot in centre of postscutellum, a broad stripe across occiput below the eyes and various 
stripes on the head (not definitely seen in this specimen). Legs pale yellow but the hind 
femur and tibia with two dusky bands. Antennas dusky yellowish. The usual substigmal spot. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, April 13, 1913. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. H y 1881, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide (with the head 
type of S el itricho delta aenea Girault). 
6. ATOPOSOMA GREGI new species. 
Female .‘—Length, 1.45 mm. 
Greenish yellow, the wings bi fas date, one broader stripe around apex, the other from 
the stigmal knob. Marked with bright metallic green as follows: — Meson (conically) and 
each margin of pronotum, parapsides, an oval spot in centre of cephalic end of each axilla, 
scutum across cephalic margin, the caudal margin of the green obliqued caudo-mesad to the 
meson, shortly and then conically, slenderly prolonged down whole of meson so that it is 
acute when caudal margin is reached, an elongate, conical spot on seutellum down meson 
from base, all of propodeum except transversely just later ad of postscutellum and six cross- 
stripes on the abdomen, the first four stripes each with a caudal triangular projection from 
them on each side half way to margin, the projection increasing in size caudad. Head pattern 
not seen. Antenna* dusky. Hind legs as in grotiufA nearly, the hind tibia* with a stripe below 
knee and before tip. Somewhat similar to grotiusi but less green on the scutum, the wings 
are banded and so on. Tegulao green, 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by' sweeping in the forest, August 23, 1913 (A. P. 
Dodd). Dedicated to W. R. Greg. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1888, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
7. ATOPOSOMA ARNOLDI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.35 mm. 
Orange yellow, the abdomen with seven black cross-stripes including the one at base, 
stripes 3-6 usually thickened centrally and confluent; fore wings with a small substigmal spot 
and infuscated slightly distad of the stigmal vein and caudad of a straight line drawn 
longitudinally through the knob of that vein. Little over caudal half of median line of 
