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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM . 
white; scape reddish brown, rest of antenna coppery. First funicle joint long, twice the 
length of the pedicel, nearly as long as the club, the distal (fifth) joint subequal to the 
pedicel in length; third club joint shortest. Postmarginal and stigmal veins long, the first 
longer, nearly as long as the marginal. Abdomen conic-ovate, the second segment longest, the 
seventh next longest, the second with a straight caudal margin and occupying only about 
a fifth of the surface. Propodeum rather short, the lateral carinas regularly curved, forked a 
little beyond the middle. Thorax all closely, densely punctate. Petiole of abdomen very 
short, slender. Otherwise as in the type species of Pol ycy stella. Cox® concolorous with thorax. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in a jungle pocket, September 3, 
1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1981, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head and hind 
legs on a slide. 
The genus differs from Polycystella Girault in its more robust form, the long post- 
marginal and stigmal veins, the shorter third and fourth segments of the abdomen, the 
straight caudal margin of the second segment, the short abdominal petiole and the forked 
lateral carin®. There is a depression just back of the spiracle. 
2. POLYCYSTELOIDES NIGRAENEUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 3.15 mm. 
Differs from the genotype in having a cross carina on the propodeum proximad of 
middle of the median carina. Also, the neck of the propodeum is more distinct, the petiole 
less so. Very dark blackish green, the wings hyaline, the tibia? and tarsi wdiite, the femora 
reddish brown w r ith more or less metallic, the cox® concolorous. Scape and pedicel reddish 
brown, rest black; fifth or distal funicle joint subequal to the pedicel, somewhat over a third 
shorter than funicle 1, which is longest of the funicle. Median carina of propodeum 
terminating at base (cephalic end) of neck where it. forks weakly. Compared writh type 
of genotype. Both mandibles strongly 4- dentate. 
Male: — Not known. 
From one female captured by sweeping in forest, September 13, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1982, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head and hind 
legs on a slide. 
PARACROCLISIS new genus. 
Female: — Like Acroclisis Foerster but the second abdominal segment is much shorter, 
occupying somew r hat less than a fourth of the surface, segment 3 half its length and with 
its caudal margin deeply concaved, segment 4 longest, twice the length of 2 and occupying 
nearly half of the surface. Head large, mandibles 4-dentate. Pronotum transverse; parapsidal 
furrows distinct, complete. Propodeum with a long median carina, the spiracles moderate, 
long-oval, the spiraeular sulcus present, the lateral carina distinct only at distal half, just 
mesad of the sulcus. Petiole slender, one and a half times or more the length of the hind 
