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funicle 1 a little longer than 5, 2 a little longer than 1 and longest, 5 quadrate. Thorax 
densely punctate. At least one mandible 3-dentate, the other apparently 4-dentate. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from female captured by sweeping a forest streamlet edged with jungle 
growth, December 2, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1974, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head and a 
hind leg on a slide. 
3. PSEUDOSPHEGIGASTERUS VARIVENTRIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.50 mm. 
Almost exactly similar to aeneus but characterized by having the abdominal segments 
nearly of equal length, all moderately long, the second not occupying more than a fifth of the 
surface and not much longer than the third but equal to it. In aeneus the second abdominal 
segment occupies a third or more of the surface and is much longer than the third which is 
short, the following still shorter. Also in variventris the femora and antenna are darker, 
dark brown, the funicle joints all shorter, all subquadrate. The venation is darker. At least 
one mandible 4-dentate, the second probably so but not plainly seen. Compared with type of 
■aeneus. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured in forest, September 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1975, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head and hind 
legs on a slide. 
Genus SPIIEGIPTEROSEMA Girault, 
Antennae 13-jointed with two ring-joints, the club 3-jointed. Parapsidal furrows 
complete; propodeum without a median carina; scutellum with a cross-furrow before apex. 
Abdomen with the petiole nearly as long as the hind coxae, slender, segments 3 and 4 caudad 
notched at the meson, segment 3 as long as 2, both together occupying not quite half of the 
surface, segments 4 and 5 subequal, each not quite half the length of 3. Propodeal spiracle 
long-oval. Otherwise as i n Spire gipterosemella Girault, (See table of genera). 
1. SPHEGIPTER03EMA FERALIS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Dark aeneous green the wings subhyaline, the legs pallid yellowish including the second 
coxae, the hind coxae dusky, the first coxae brownish and submetallic greenish. Antennae 
concolorous with the body (scape not seen). Thorax with a coarse scaly sculpture, the axillae 
finer. Funicle joints nearly subequal, the first slightly the longest, barely longer than wide. 
Mandibles 3- and 4-dentate. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle. 
Type: No. Hy 1976, Queensland Museum. 
