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coxae. Median and lateral earinse of propodeum joined around caudal margin. Postmarginal 
and stigmal veins short, the former longer of the two, only about a half or less the length 
of the marginal. Scutellum near tip abruptly truncated but without a true cross-suture. 
Propodeum with a short neck, reticulated-scaly. Antennae 13 -jointed with two ring- joints. 
Male : — Not known. 
Type: The species described herewith. 
1. PARACROCLISIS WASHINGTON! new species. 
Female : — Length, 2.20 mm. 
Opaque dark blue, the abdomen polished black, the wings hyaline, the coxae concolorous, 
the legs otherwise reddish brown, the tarsi white.. Flagellum black, the first funicle joint 
longest, slightly longer than wide, the others shortening in succession, the sixth very slightly 
wider than long; joint 1 of club longest but wider than long. Thorax densely reticulately 
punctate. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, September 6, 1913. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1983, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head and hind 
legs on a slide. 
LOMONOSOFFIELLA new genus. 
Female : — Like the description of Trigonogastra Ashmead (1904) but the lateral folds 
are present and half complete, the abdominal petiole is very long and slender, over twice 
the length of the hind coxa3, the scutellum with a. cross-suture a short distance before tip, 
distad of this polished, the mandibles 3- and 4-dentate, the parapsidal furrows two thirds 
complete. Second abdominal segment occupying only about a fourth of the surface, its 
caudal margin straight or with a very slight sinus at meson, the fourth segment longest, a 
little longer than 2, while 3 is somewhat shorter than 2; abdomen ovate, its body a little 
shorter than the thorax, polished. Antenna* 13-jointed with two ring-joints, the club 3-jointed. 
Postmarginal vein somewhat longer than the stigmal, the wings hyaline. Whole of thorax 
densely, reticulately punctate except the polished portion of scutellum which is finely 
reticulated. A spiracular sulcus just mesad of each spiracle. 
Male : — Not known. 
The genus is dedicated with great respect to Michael Lomonosoff. 
Type: The following species. 
1. LOMONOSOFFIELLA ALBIPES new species. 
Female: — Length, 2.00 mm. 
Dark metallic green, the scutellum dark coppery, the abdomen deep blue; legs white 
except cephalic aspect of cephalic coxae; scape and pedicel whitish, the rest of the antenna 
black; club with a minute nipple; first joint of funicle a little longer than wide, somewhat 
shorter than the pedicel, the distal funicle joint a little wider than long. 
