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meson. Also tlie marginal vein is not distinctly longer than wide, only slightly so. Thorax 
not seen nor hind 'wings. 
Habitat : Cookto wn, Queensland, .rungle. 
Ty'pa: No. Rjj2^20, Queensland Museuin, Brisbane, one female on a slide in fragments. 
5. NEOBRACHISTA NOVIFASCIATA new species. 
Antca, first supplement, p. 101. Lmigth, 1 mm. Second strii)e of abdomen a little 
distad of middle, the first a little out from base. Punicle 1 not quite half the length of 2 
(ill the genotype only a fourth the length). June. Type on a slide. 
GeKus NEOBRACHISTKLI.A Girault. 
1. NEOBRACHISTELLA MAXIMA Girault. 
One female, sweeping grass in forest, Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland, April 10, 1914. 
Wholly black, the vertex orange yellow, the thorax scaly reticulate, the so-called third ring- 
joint is twice the size of the others (as regartls width) nearly but somewhat longer. Scape 
short. Mandibles tridentate. The median groove of thorax is confirmed. 
Genus CKXTROBIELLA Girault. 
1. CENTROBIELLA MAGNA Girault. 
One male, forest, Gordonvale, Queensland. April 12, 1914. The autenue'e and legs are 
dusky black; the curved lino of cilia back from tlie stignial vein includes about six *seta3. Fore 
wings with about seventeen lines of regular discal cilia, the caudal wings with a pair of 
conspicuous lines cephulad and a very faint line caudad. 
Also one female, the same jilace, May 4, .1914, b}' sweeping in the forest. It agrees with 
the male. The ovi]jositor is extruded for half the length of the abdomen. Caudal wings with 
three lines of diseal cilia, the third faint. Thorax densely scaly-shagreened. Pedicel and club 
dusky black. 
In this genus, ap]>arently. the funiede is 2-jointed as in NcoliradusleUa, that is, the first 
joint very short and more or less hidden. 
Genus Oi.IGOSlTA lialiday. 
1. OLIGOSITA SCURRA new species. 
Female: — Length, 0.7U mm. 
Differs from americaita in having the funicle joint distinctly longer than wide, the body 
golden yellow, immaculate but the distal two club joints black; tlie discal cilia visible (low 
power) only near ajjex. Fuuicle joint distinctly longer than club 1 which is not much longer 
tl‘-an wide, the middle club joint nearly twice its (the first’s) length, longest of the 'Hagcdlum, 
the third joint a little shorter than the second. l’(*dicel a little shorter than the funicle. Fore 
wings a little wider than their longest marginal <'ilia. Dilfers from sarra in having the funicle 
longer than the proximal club joint, the ])roxinial ta,rsal joints long and the club blackish on 
more than tlie distal half. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by swee])ing in forest, September 16. 1913 (A. P. 
Dodd). 
Hahilal: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. HySi^l, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above on a slide. 
2. OLIGOSITA AMERICANA AUSTRALIS new variety. 
Oligosita americana Girault, antea, I, pp. 76, 86. 
Differs from americana in having the proximal tarsal joint longer and more slender, the 
