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:i£inL01MS OF THE QUEKySLAED MUSEUM. 
1. PARACHRYSOMALLA AEREIFEMUR new species. Genotype. 
Female: — 2.15 inni. Robust. 
Dark metallic green, the Avings hyaline, the knees, tibiae, tarsi ami scape pale yelloAv, the 
l-edieel dusky pallid; rest of antenna black. Funicle 1 longest, longer than wide, 2 and S- 
subequal, subquadrate, 5-7 AA'ider than long, Avidening at ajtex; club oA-ate, short, its apex 
nippled. Thorax Avith a distinct sealy sculpture. Ring-joint by far not as Avide as the funicle 
but nearly as long as AA'ide, the pedicel subequal to funicle 4. 
Described from one female captured in a forest pocket, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
II ((bit at: Kurnnda (Cairns) , Queensland. 
Type: Xo. Hy$760, QAieensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag; head and hind 
legs on a slide. 
Genus ELATUS AValker. 
i. ELATUS ATER neAv species. 
Male: — Length, 1.70 mm. Petiole of abdomen distinctly twice longer than wide, longer 
Timn hind coxd?. 
Black AA’ith a metallic lustre, the wings hyaline; scape and tibias yelloAAdsh broAAm, the 
llagelluni dusky broAAuish; tarsi AA’hite. Body glabrous; occiput and neck of prothorax finely 
I'cticnlated ; scutum Avith delic-ate trausA'erse lines except caiidad. Propodeuin ratlier densely 
scaly. Avith a short medinu carina and indicated from base a long, strong carina on each side 
of meson and half Avay to spiracle; the lateral and caudal margins carlnated; apiracle 
reniforin. Petiole lougitndinally carinate. Abdomqn shaped as in Perilanipus, glabrous, 
r’ostmargiual \-ein nearly tAvicc longer than the very short stigma), the marginal two thirds 
or more the length of the submarginal. With tlie genernl habitus of P&n'tampuf!. Atitenna? 
I l-Jointed, the short chib solid; funicle joints all distinctly Avider than long, distinctly shorter 
than the club, AA'hich is shorter than the moderately long, simple scape. Pedicel ciipshaped. 
One distinct ring-joint. Hiiul tibial spur single, slender. (Sculpture of distal half of dorsal 
abdomen not seen.) 
Prom one male caught in jungle, January 3, 1914, 
Hahitai : Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: Xo, HySISl, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 
hind legs on a slide. 
Genus MELANOSOMPLLA Girault. 
Anteniuu 12-joiuted. Avith one large ring-joint, the club 3-jointed, the male anteume 
different ami bearing long rami. The marginal I'cin two and a half tinws its own width Inti 
shorter than either the stigmal or posimarginal veins. 
Head (coiduilic aspect) slightly AA*ider than long; autonna' inserted slightly below the 
middle of the face, the scrobes short and not deep, the lateral ocelli far distant from the 
eyes: pronotiim not long, the ])aiapsidol furroAA’s complete; head and thorax smooth. Ring-joint 
large, nearly as long ris wide; funicle apparently compressed, the joints all transA’erse and 
lamellate or produced tovA^ard one side, the distal much less so and largest of the funicle; 
pedicel siibquadrate, much longer than the proximal funicle joints; club long-ovate, longer 
than the cylindrical, simple scape, its joints obliquely truncati', the distal joint short and 
conic. Fore A\ii)gs normal, tlie marginal cilia sjiarse and short. Propodeum with a slight 
