SOME SOUTH QUEENSLAND PEOCTOTEYPOIDEA. — DODD. 
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Genus APHANOMERUS Perkins. 
1. APHANOMERUS RUFESCENS Perkins. 
There is a female specimen of this common species labelled “Tooheys 
Hill, Brisbane, sweeping Leptospermura, 16-iv-13, H. Hacker.” 
2. APHANOMERUS PUSILLUS Perkins. 
There is one slide in the collection containing several female specimens of 
this species, labelled “Brisbane, II. Hacker.” 
APIIANOMERELLA nov. gen. 
Female : — Head a little wider than the thorax; thorax one-half longer 
than wide; seutellum semicircular. Abdomen subsessile, a little longer than the 
head and thorax united ; as wide as the thorax ; first segment short, transverse ; 
second segment long, equal to one-half the abdominal length; ovipositor exserted 
for a short distance. Antenna* 10-jointed, scape, pedicel, four funicle joints and 
a 4-jointed club; scape long and slender; pedicel twice as long as wide; funicle 
joints as in the Bceince , all narrower than the pedicel, first a little longer than 
wide; 2-4 short, transverse; club compact, 4-jointed. Forewings reaching a 
little beyond apex of abdomen ; submarginal vein terminating in a knob at about 
two-fifths the wing length ; basal and median veins present. Tarsi 5- jointed. 
Male : — Like the female but the second funicle joint is enlarged, a little 
wider than the first, and not very transverse, only one-half wider than long. 
A genus resembling Aphanomerus Perkins and with similar habits, but 
differing in bearing a 4-jointed, though compact, antennal club, and in having 
the same number of funicle joints in both sexes. 
Type: Aphanomerella ovi sp. nov. 
Female: — Length, 1.25 mm. 
Shining black ; legs (excluding the coxa?) golden yellow; antennal pedicel 
and funicle joints golden yellow; scape and club brown. Forewings broad; 
hyaline ; marginal cilia short : discal cilia moderately fine and dense. Ovipositor 
exserted for a length equal to one-third that of the abdomen. 
Male : — The same, but the antenna* wholly clear golden yellow. 
Habitat: South Queensland (Brisbane). Described from 7 females, 
.1 male, labelled “Bred from eggs of a bug. 8-iv-I3, H. Hacker.” 
Types: II y 1632, Queensland Museum, 7 females, 1 male on a slide. 
Anthony James Camming, Government Printer. Brisbane. 
