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third. Also base of abdomen is not narro-svly purple; marginal purple of abdomen tends to 
be broader distad, narrowing toward base. Otherwise the same as moteora as far as can 
bb told. 
The species meieora bears a complete median carina on propodeum which is very shor^ 
at the meson but lateral earinse appear to be absent. Also in this new species, the mandibles 
Jire tridentate. Propodeum not clearly seen, short at the meson. 
From one female captured in jungle. December 27, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Hahitai: Harvey’s Creek (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. HyB578f Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 
4. SELITRICHODELLA COMETES new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.05 mm. 
Like mira but the center of scape above and funicle 1 are also purple; funicles 2 and 
3 subequal, 2 longer. Mandibles bideutate, the second tooth emarginate at apex. Propodeum 
with a median carina and a lateral one on each side of the spiracle, close to the latter but 
not true lateral carinag. 
From one female caught on bushes, November 10, 1913 (G. F. Hill). 
Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 
Type: No. HyB579, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a slide. 
5. SELITRICHODELLA SULFUREIVENTRIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 0.80 miti. Abdomen no longer than the thorax. 
Brilliant dark metallic pnrjde, the antemiEe, legs, and abdomen immaculate, pale sulphur 
yellow, the wings hyaline. Cephalic coxic mostly coiicolorous. Funicles 2 and 3 subequal, each 
a, little longer than 1, each distinctly longer than wide, the pedicel somewhat shorter. Funicle 3 
<listinctly shorter than the club. Mandibles bidentate. Propodeum with several carinm just 
laterad of the spiracle and one on each side of it. 
From one female reared from cecidovmiid galls on Careya australis, December, 1912 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. HyB580, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 
6. SELITRICHODELLA SPISSIGRADA new species. 
Female: — Lengtli, 1.20 mm. 
Abdomen longer than rest of body, conic. 
Black, the wings hyaline, the scape and legs jaile, the hind coxa black; scutum long, 
lateral margins of parapsidos with slight traces of yellow; antennae dusky; the pedicel dusky 
above, otherwise subpallid, moderately long, shorter tl)an funicle 1, snbeqnal to funicle 2 which 
is longer than 3, the latter distinctly longer than wide; funicle 1 over twice longer than wide, 
distinctly shorter than the clnb wliich bears a slioit tern}ina] spine. Mandibles tridentate, the 
teeth short and obtuse. Oral area yellowish. Fore wing with about 25 lines of rather fine 
discal cilia where widest, the stigmal vein long. Valves of ovipositor projecting a little. 
Mesopostscutellum orange yellow; propodeum very short at meson, without noticeable carimo. 
From one female from the Queensland Museum, through the kind^iess of Dr. Hamljm- 
Harris, collected among undergrowTh (mostly Eucalypti), April 16, 1913 (H. Hacker). 
Habitat : Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. HySoSl, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, thorax on a tag, head and abdomen 
on a slide. 
