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Genus BRACHYCHRYSOCirARELLA GAanlt. 
1. BRACHYCHRYSOCHARELLA BELLA new species. 
Female: — Length, 0.95 mm. 
Differs from dubia in having the front and middle femora hlack also and the hind tibia 
and middle one, the latter just below the knees only; also, the fore wing is distinctly narrower 
and more densely eiliate discally. Erom gloha in having the antennm all pale, the hind tibia3 
concoloroiis and the distinctly narrower fore wing. ^Marginal vein nmcdi shorter than the 
submarginal. 'Mandibles bideiitate. Fore wings with about nineteen lines of short discal cilia. 
From one female captured by sweeping in forest, January 4, 3913. 
KaMtat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 
Types: No. HySdO^, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a slide with an 
Euryiscltia. 
Genus RHICNOPJELTOMYIA Girault. 
1. RHICNOPELTOMYIA VOLTAIREI new species. 
Female: — Length, 3.50 mm. 
Intense golden, the fore Avings with an obscure blotch from apex of the stignial vein. 
•Caudal margin of pronotum very narrowly across meson and the entire scutum excej^t extreme 
cephalo-latera! corner, dark metallic green, the funicle and club dusky black, the base of 
abdomen abo\‘e Avith a rather large, rounded metallic blue spot on each side of meson, both 
connected across meson forming more or less of a cross-stripe; cephalic margin of propodeum 
narrowly metallic green. Abdomen with four (usually visible us three, the distal one faintorL 
narroAA*, complete, cross-stripes on middle, remote from base or apex, the distal three each 
curved shortly cephalad at meson, 2 and 3 close together, midway betAveeu 1 and 4. Tip of 
valves of ovipositor black. Thorax finely scaly, the propodeum A'ory finely so, nonearinate, 
the scutum A^ery coarsely scaly. Marginal fringes of fore Aving short; postmarginal and stigmal 
veins more or less subequal. Caudal Avings broad, with about ten lines of discal cilia AA'here 
broadest. Scutellum Avith the usual long seta on each side a little distad of middle. Mandibles 
tridentate. Club Avell defined, Avith a distinct terminal spine Avhicli is nearly as long as the 
joint AA'hich bears it; pedicel stout, long, nearly tAvo thirds longer than wide; funicle 2 somewhat 
longer than 3, somewhat shorter than the pedicel, stout, plainly longer than wide. Flagellum 
tapering. 
From one female captured in forest, April 27, 3914. 
Habitat : Gordoiu’ale (Cairns) , Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy^SOS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide Avith type 
of Clirysovliaromyia bicoloritliorax. 
A second female same place, May 18, 3914. 
2. RHICNOPELTOMYIA DOUGLASSI Girault. 
A female at GordoiiAale, Queensland, April, 3913. The head is yelloAV below antennm; 
a long narrow sclerite between the latter and up the face and Avhich is narroAvly margined 
Avith yelloAv; also a convex suture just beneath A'ert(?x on the face, which is also yellow. The 
third tooth of mandible is not broad, merely sliorter. The Auntral half of abdomen is more or 
less yelluAvish and faint cross-stripes are visible abo\e. Bostmarginal vein a little longer than 
the stigmal. The type body has been remounted onto the type slide. 
The type has been compared Avith that of Aehrysocliarella Olympus Girault and differs 
from the latter in having the propodeum short and glabrous at meson and the fore wings are 
smaller. In Olympus, the propodeum is distinctly, finely reticulated. 
