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]iairs of sclerites between scutellum and postseutellmn). Fore Avings Avith a more or less 
distinct subfuscoiis stripe across at about the middle. Vah*es of OA’ipositor slightly exserted. 
Tibial spurs single. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured 8eptember 8, 1913 by SAAceping in a jungle pocket. 
HaMtat: OordouA'ale (Cairns), (Queensland. 
Type: No. Jly 24()1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the aboA-e specimen on a slide Avitli 
an Anagnis male. 
2. STETHYNIUM FLAVINOT^ neAA” species. 
Female: — Ijongtli. 0.6o mm. 
Black, the wings liyaline, the Ixaly nmrked willi golden y«dh)W as folloAA'S: Logs, the 
Avhole of the large, peltate scutellum aaIucIi bears a doe|) median sulcus, distal lifth of scutum, 
the sclerites betAyeen scutum and scutellum, cimter of verte.x, caudal half of each parapside 
and much of the face. Anteinne black sutVused somewliat with yellow; distal funicle joint 
a little longer than Avi(le, subixjual to 1, 2 longest, plainly longer than Avide, 8 and 4 subequal, 
slightly shorter tlian 2; distal club joint longest. Fore w’ings A'ery broad (about 86 lines of 
Aery fine discal cilia), their longest marginal fringes not iuucli more than a titth the greatest 
wing AA'idth. Bind Aviiigs broad, bearing about six lines of sparse discal cilia, cuiwed, their 
longest marginal fringes distinctly longer than those of the fore Aving. I’hragma and strigils 
]>resent. 
Male: — The .same but only tlie jn'oploura, meso]>Ieura, central clieeks, the face and the base 
and margins of ])hragma are yeliOAv. Thorax very finely sculptured. Club 2-joiiitod. Marginal 
cilia of fore AA'ing longer. 
Described from one female from fleshy galls on gum, March 20, 1911 and tAvo males 
labelled “52. From galls, all from the collections of the National ^liiseimi, Melbourne, 
Victoria. 
Hahiiai: Melbouimo ?. Victoria. 
Type: No. If y ,2462, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the aboA'e female on a slide Avith 
the types of perlafipenne. 
3. STETHYNIUM GLADIUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 0.75 mm., excluding ovijiositor Avhich is extruded for nearly half the 
length of the abdomen and dusky Idack. 
Pale golden yelloAA*, mai’ked Avitli black as follows: Cephalic half of prouotum except 
lateral margins and meson (tAvo large wedgeshaped si)ots), cephalic half of each parapside, a 
round dot on axilla cephalad, two dots on abdomen one on each side of meson just before tip, 
two dots on meson of same Just out from base in a line lougitudinally and a narrow cross-stripe 
a little distad of middle accented on each side at lateral margin and obscurely, uarroAvly divided 
along meson. Scutellum with tliree grooves, one nu'dian. Legs, scape and pedicel yelloAA', rest 
of antenna blackish. Funicle 1 shortest, barely longer than Avide, 8 longest, souunA-hat longer 
tliaii Avide, the others siibeqiial to each other and to tlie jmdicel. Fore Aviiigs slender, their 
longest marginal cilia about tliree fourths the greatest Aviug AA'idth and caudo-distad. Usual 
for the genus with the extaqAiou of the ovipositor. Pedicel globular. Hind Avings linear, 
v.'ith two complete lines of discal cilia along each margin. 
From one female caught in forest, June 26, 1914. 
Hahiiai : (Jordonvale, (Queensland. 
Type: No. lJy24G3, Queensland ^luseum, Brisbane, the female on a slide wdth type 
maxweJli. 
4. STETHYNIUM MAXWELLI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.12 mm. 
Jet black, the large mesopostscutellum contrasting golden yelloAV and with two lateral 
grooved lines. Legs pale yellow, the caudal femur dusky. Fore Avings lightly infuscated, 
