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MmWJRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Gekus EUEYISCHOMYIA Giraiilt. 
Like Euryischia but the parapsidal furrows are complete; the hind coxaa are enlarged 
but cylindrical ovate as in some species of Euryischia. Tarsi 5-jointed. The male is similar 
but with an obtuse abdomen. 
1. EURYISCHOMYIA WASHINGTON! Girault. Female, male. Genotype. 
Length, 1 mm. Slender, the abdomen conic-ovate. 
Very dark metallic green; legs (except caudal coxeb and femora) and tegular pale 
lemon yellow. Fore wings with a clearly delimited, broad, jet black band across them under 
the marginal and most of postmarginal veins, its distal margin just reaching apex of stigmal 
vein, its proximal margin nearly straight. Wings hyaline. Scutum with hardly more setss 
than the seutellum which is nearly naked, the sparse setso whitish. Thorax finely scaly. 
Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth broadly truncate. Two ring-joints, the throe funicle 
joints subquadrate. Xot more than two bristles under submarginal vein. Hind femur 
compressed. The male is similar. Outer angle, of second tooth of inandi]>le acute. 
One female was captured by sw'ee])ing in forest, Townsville, January 19, 1913. The 
type locality is Pentland (January 8, 1913), 
Hahitat : Capeville (Pentland) and Townsville, Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. Hy^7J^, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 
2. EURYISCHOMYIA FLAVITHORAX new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 
Female: — Length, 1.40 mm. 
Abdomen jet black; thorax deep orange yellow^ excejit most of the short black prouotmn 
which is lemon yellow at lateral angles and the postscutellum and propodcum which are 
transverse and lemon yellow*, the suture between them black. Head lemon yellow as are also 
the legs and antennfe and thoracic jJeura. Hind coxge blackish. Thorax finely reticulated. 
Wings hyaline. Mandibles tridentate, tlie third tooth really a truncation from the second 
which forms the acute inner angle of the apex. Postmarginal vein somewdiat longer than 
the stigmal. Somewhat similar to saintpierrei Girault. Funicle 3 largest, all wider than 
long. Obscure white marginal spots on base of abdomen. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from three females taken by sweeping forest, December 1 and 3, 1913 
(A.A.G.). 
Habitat: Gurdonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Types: No. Hy 2744, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag, the head, 
a hind tibia and another female on a slide. 
On March 2, 1914 a female was captured at Cooktowm in forest (A. P. Dodd). 
3. EURYISCHOMYIA SAINTPIERREI new species. 
Female: — Length, L30 mm. 
Punning to AiiyS’is Howard in the Eunotinje bnt the antenme clavate and lO-jointed 
with two ring-joints, the club 3-jointod; seutellum fiat and hardly differentiated from the 
propodeum, not as long as the scutum which bears complete parapsidal furrows. Wings 
as in Euryischia of the Elasmidce but the large bristles absent; hind cox 8G enlarged but 
cylindrical. Second abdominal segment (dorsad) hardly as long as the others, not a fifth 
of the surface, the abdomen short and stout. Hind tibiae with stiff bristles dorsad, the femora 
'Stout. Wings hyaline. Propodeum apparently without carina). Pedicel subelongate. 
Abdomen black, thorax and head yellowush brown, the propodeum black; legs brownish 
black, the knees, tibia? and tarsi lemon yellow*; antenna* brow*nish yellow, the three funicle 
