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funicle joints subquadrate and subequal, distinctly shorter than the pedicel, the others 
widening and slightly shortening. Punctate, the propodeum practically smooth. Scape long, 
cylindrical. 
Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. 
Type: No. I. 1345 , South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 
ROPTROCEROPSEUS new genus. 
Female: — Head normal, the antenna) inserted below the middle of the face, about on a 
line with the ventral ends of the eyes, 12- jointed with two ring- joints, the club 3- jointed. 
Both mandibles 4-dentate. Parapsidal furrows complete. Scutellum with a transverse suture 
before apex. Propodeum short, polished, with a distinct median carina, the cephalic and 
posterior margins foveate, the lateral c-arina) absent. Second abdominal segment occupying 
somewhat over a third of the surface, the others much shorter. Postmarginal vein a little 
longer than the stigmal, the marginal still longer but moderately short. Somewhat like 
Paruriella Girault but the mandibles with more teeth, the scutellum not simple, the propodeum 
without lateral caringe, the hind tibial spur normal. 
Male: — Not known. 
Type: The following species. 
1. ROPTROCEROPSEUS ALBICORNIS new species.* 
Female: — Length, 1.50 mm. 
Dark metallic blue and punctate, the wings hyaline, the propodeum and abdomen blue- 
green, the antenna) and legs (excepting the concolorous coxa)) yellowish white. First funicle 
joint longest, subequal to the pedicel, the distal one a little wider than long, shortest, the club 
somewhat wider than the funicle, without a nipple or terminal seta; scape long and slender. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping near and along a forest streamlet 
clothed with more or less jungle growdh, August 17, 1913. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1957, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head and hind 
legs on a slide. 
A second female w r as captured in the forest at Nelson, September 6, 1913. 
Tribe MERISINI. 
Genus AMICROMELUS Girault. 
This genus was referred to the Pteromalida) by mistake. It belongs to the 
Miscogasterida), tribe Trydymini, near Metastenus Walker. The type has been re-examined 
and additional specimens seen. 
Tribe BRACHYSCELIDIPHAGINI. 
Genus CCELOCYBA Ashmead. 
Nonmetallic; mandibles dentate; antennas short, strongly clavate, inserted near the 
mouth border, the pedicel large; stigmal vein as long as the marginal, clavate. Pronotum 
short. Parapsidal furrows well defined. Axilla) widely separated. Abdomen sessile, conic 
ovate, depressed. Ilitid coxa > large, compressed. 
* This and all disruptions made with pinch objective, 1-inch optic, Bausch and Lomb. 
