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stout, snbeqiial to the two funicle joints which are one and a half times longer than wide but 
shorter than the rather long, proximal joint of the club. Abdomen conic-ovate. Postmarginal 
vein long and slender, longer than the moderate stigmal. If the constriction of the club is- 
nonarticulated, the antenme are 6-jointed. Mandibular teeth sj)reading. 
Male : — Not known. 
Type: The following species. 
1. PAROMPHALE FLAVICORPUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 0.85 mm. 
Dull honey yellow, the wings hyaline, the abdomen with three distinct cross-stripes of 
black, the first longest. Thorax reticulated, the lines not raised. AntenuEU with scattered,, 
long, fine hairs. Marginal vein longer tlian the submarginal, the latter distinctly broken. 
Propodeum with a faint median carina, fuscous. Tip of abdomen black. Fore wings with 
about twenty-four lines of discal cilia where broadest. 
Deseribe<l from one female captured by sweeping at the base of Pyramid Mountain,, 
forest, February 13, 1912. One antenna bore but a single fiiniele joint, the club correspondingly 
longer but otherwise as described (A.A.G-.). 
Hahitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. HySdSO, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a slide. 
CLOSTEROMPHALE new genus of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 
Female : — Form slender. Antenme inserted below the middle of the face, 8-jointed, two 
ring, four funicle joints, the club solid, not enlarged. Mandibles tridentate. Scutellum simple, 
the parapsidal furrows complete. Marginal vein longer tliau the submarginal, the postmarginal 
and stigmal veins of moderate length, the former longer ; marginal A^ein long; wings infuscated. 
Abdomen conic-ovate, longer than the rest of tiie body. P]' 0 ])odeum short at meson, with a weak 
carina there, tlie surface reticulated. Hind tibiul spur short, single. 
Type: The following species. 
1. CLOSTEROMPHALE BILINEATA new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.05 mm. 
Dark metallic green, the abdomen bronze eo})pery, the head spotted with coppery and 
the scutum and Bcutellura with a distinct, rather broad co])pery stripe down each side of meson 
(from imonotum to a]>cx of scutellum). Legs and anteiuuo concolorous but funicle 3, knees,, 
a band around tibiio just before tip, the tarsi and both ends of the scape, yellowish white. 
Thorax densely scaly. Funicle joints snbquadrate; club over half the length of the funicle, 
the pedicel barely longer than the funicle joints taken separately; scape moderately long. 
Fore ^v•ing with two conspicuous blotches of sooty, one fi'om apex of stigmal vein, the other 
from near base (proximal end) of the marginal, the distal blotch the larger, rounded, extending 
nearly across the blade, the ])roximal one more elliptical, also extending nearly across, the 
space betAveeu them suffused with sooty except just under the marginal vein. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in the jungle, December 2, 1913 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Hahitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3461, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the foregoing female on a tag; hind 
legs and head on a slide. 
