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are indicated by transverse spots and one also just before extreme apex. In both species the 
cephalic margin of the scutum is broadly jet black. Funicle 2 a little longer than wide. 
Propodeum finely scaly, without lateral carinso but with a distinct median one. Mandibles 
about 6-dentate. 
Prom one female caught in forest, April 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. 
Type: No. IIyS67i^, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen without head on a tag. 
4. PSEUDIGLYPHOMYIA NIGRISCUTUM new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.25 mm. 
Black, the following parts orange ycdlow: Head (except center of occiput and dusky 
ventral margin of face), x>ronotuni except face and caudal margin across meson, parapsides,. 
lateral margin of each axilla rather broadly, scutellum laterad of grooves except at base, distal 
third of scutellum bet^veen the grooves and the postscutellum. Propodermi rirgulose but the 
median carina is distinct. I^egs (except hind coxa) and proximal half of scape pale yellowish. 
Caudal femur a little dusky at proximal half. Postmarginal vein not quite as long as the 
stigmal, the fore wings lightly dusky across from the whole marginal vein. Mandibles 5*dentate. 
Punicle 1 a little longer than wide, 2 barely so, subequal to the pedicel. Terminal spine of 
club distinct, the club as long as the funicle. 
From one female captured in forest, May 12, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South AVales. 
Type: No. HyS677, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
PSEUDIGLYPHUS new genus. 
Antennaj short, capitate, 9-jointed with two large ring-joints, the club large, 3-jointed. 
Abdomen pointed conic ovate, from above depressed and pointed ovate, the ovipositor shortly 
exserted. Segment 2 of abdomen longest, 7 next so, the former occupying a little less than a 
fourth of the surface, its caudal margin straight. Postmarginal vein a little shorter than the 
stigmal. Propodeum with a solid median carina, the spiracle small, suboval. Mandibles with 
two larger outer teeth and but a single inner smaller one. Differs from Psendiplyphella in 
having the axillfo much advanced. Scutellum with a lateral grooved line. 
1. PSEUDIGLYPHUS GROTIUSI new species. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 1.50 mm. 
Dark steel or purj>lish blue, the wings hjmline, the legs concolorous except the knees,, 
the intermediate and caudal tibiin (except at base of the latter) and the three proximal tarsal 
joints which are whitish. Scutum coarsely scaly, the scutellum betw’een the grooves, post- 
scutellum and the propodeum glabrous; scutellum scaly laterad of grooved line. Segments 2 
and 3 of abdomen glabrous, the rest reticulated; segment 3 very short. Antenufo dusky 
yellowish, the scape concolorous with the body, the pedicel dark, subequal in length to funicle 1 
which is longer than wide; funicle 2 subquadrate. Distal club joint terminating in a small 
nipple. Type captured by sweeping jungle growth along a forest streamlet, Juno 14, 1913 
and is mounted on a tag (head and caudal tibire on a slide with the type appendages of 
Stomatoceras aureits Giranlt). A second female, type locality, forest, August 27, 1913. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy^678, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 
The species is respectfully dedicated to Hugo Grotius. 
