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MEMO IBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
1. PARZAOMMOMYTA TENUICORPUS new species. Genotype. 
Female: — Length, 2.05 mm. 
Bronzy green, the abdomen dark coppery, blue at base, the fore wings slightly 
uniformly infuscated throughout, the legs white, the cephalic coxee dark metallic, the knees 
and tarsi yellowish brown, also most of femora. Scape yellowish brown except at tip dorsad, 
the distal two club .joints silvery white, rest of antenna blactk. Funicde 1 a little longer than 
2, two and a half times longer than wide, over twice the length of the pedicel; joints 1 and 2 
of club and funicle 2 subeqnal, club o much shorter, subequal to the pedicel, with a short 
terminal spine. Club rapidly narrowing distad. Thorax cous])icuously scaly reticulate, the 
lines not raised. rroj)odeum short at meson, with median and lateral cariii®, the sxjiracle small, 
round, the lateral Carina with fovea) along its mesal side. 
From one female caught in jungle, June 25, 1914. 
Mahitat : Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. IIyS544, Queensland Museum, the specimen on a tag, the head on a slide 
with type Entedonomphale margisciiinm Girault. 
ENTEDONOMPHALE new genus. 
Female : — ^Porm small, slender. Characterised by the antennee which are 6-jointed with 
one very short ring-joint, the club solid. Postmarginal vein absent or nearly, the stignial normal. 
Propodeum nonearinate. Parapsidal furrows complete, the thorax otherwise simple. Club 
armed at aj^ex with three or four rather stout spines from the edges. Antennse inserted some- 
what below the middle of the face. Fore wings naked. 
1. ENTEDONOMPHALE MARGISCUTUM new' species. Genotype. 
Female: — Length, 0.6B mm. 
Dark metallic green and finely scaly, tlie lateral margins of scutum orange yellow; 
scape, all tibhn and tarsi and the cephalic femur, white; knees white. Anteunse black. Scajpe 
narrowing distinctly distad, the ])edicel larger than either funicle joint of which 2 is globular, 
1 slightly longer than wide. Club stout, oval, as long as the funicle. Mandibles absent. 
Fore wings with a sul>stigmal spot (on the stigmal vein and not large) and with a large dusky 
cloud from apex of stigmal vein across to caudal margin and extending suftusedly proximad 
and distad. Marginal vein long, somewhat longer than the submarginal. Marginal cilia of 
fore wing short, the discal cilia absent. A yellow spot on vertex against the eye margin. 
From one female caught by sweeping mangrove and other bushes on the bank of Tweed 
River, May 14, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Halitat: Chindera, ISTeAv South Wales. 
Type: No. Ky2545, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 
On page 177, antea, line 6, caudad should read ccpJialad; for line 31, the words eyes 
normal should be substituted. On page 178, line 5, tridentate should read Fidentate. 
Subfamily TETRASTICHINLE. 
Tribe TETRASTICTITNI. 
It is quite likely that some of tlie genera described by me are merely old genera 
correctly described, since I find that MelittoMa has three ring-joints and thus formerly has 
always b^en incorrectly diagnosed. In some species of those genera bearing a median 
groove on the scutum, this groove may be partially obliterated, but seems to be always distinctly 
indicated. A study of variation in the groiq.) is badly needed. The ring-joints cannot always 
be seen by using the present simple methods and to make their detection easier and quicker 
some method analogous to staining should be devised. The group is a difficult one and presents 
a curious case of parallel evolution. 
