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teeth, several very minute inner ones. Club without a terminal seta, the pedicel globular, not 
compressed, smaller than the funicle joints. Parapsidal furrows short but attaining the 
advanced axillm. Hind tibial spurs short, unequal. Postmarginal vein longer than the slender 
stigmal, the marginal about two and a half times the length of the stigmal. Metallic and with 
an omphaline habitus. 
Male : — Not known. 
The genus is respectfully dedicated to the jurist and historian Hugo Grotius. 
Type: The following species. 
1. GROT1USELLA FASCIATIFRON3 new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.15 mm. 
Hark metallic aeneous green, the wings hyaline, the face with two cross-stripes of silvery 
white, one above, the other below, the antenna); vertex more or less whitish; legs 'white except 
the concolorous coxa?, the femora proximad (to tip in caudal femur) and a band around inter- 
mediate tibia) faintly (distinct on caudal femur), sooty. Antenna) concolorous, the scape silvery 
white except above at tip, the first funicle joint subglobular, the others stout but distinctly 
wider than long, the club short. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, October 24, 1912. 
Haliitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1989, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
EUPLECTROPHELINUS new genus. 
Female: — Nonmetallie. Head triangular, the eyes widely separated and moderately 
small, the antennas inserted far down on the face, somewhat near the clypeus, below the ventral 
ends of the eyes, 9-jointed with two ring-joints (the first very short), the club ovate, solid; 
scape slender. Seutellum with four dorsal grooved lines, the mesal one in the usual lateral 
position, the lateral ones dorso-lateral but distinct. Abdomen shortly petioiate, the second 
segment occupying about half the surface. Postmarginal vein longer than the well developed 
stigmal. Pronotum transverse quadrate; axilla) not advanced. Propodeum strongly tricarinate,. 
the spiracle oval, moderate in size. Mandibles not seen. Hind femora stout. 
Male : — Not known. 
Type: The following species. 
1. EUPLECTROPHELINUS SAINTPXERREX new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.80 mm. 
Red; wings hyaline; face of pronotum, thoracic notum on each side of postscutellum,. 
most of propodeum (except ecphalo-laterad), distal third or more of abdomen and flagellum 
black. Legs, scape, petiole and proximal two thirds or less of abdomen brownish yellow. 
Pedicel elongate, a little longer than the cylindrical first funicle joint which is much longer 
than the following funicle joints of which 2 is subquadrate, the others a little shorter and 
wider , club longer than pedicel. Proximal tarsal joint of hind legs rather long. Thorax with 
isolated, long black seta), finely polygonally reticulated, the propodeum similarly sculptured. 
Segment 2 of abdomen glabrous. 
