AUSTEALIAN EYMENOPTEEA CEALCIBOIDEA, VL—GIEAULT. 
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Dark sGiieous greeu with jjurplish tinges, the Avings hyaline, the legs reddish brown except 
the concolorous coxa?. Antennse honey yellow, the funicle joints wdder than long but the 
proximal ones a little longer than the distal ones; scape short, the pedicel barely longer than 
wide; inner tooth of mandible truncate. Propodeum with a delicate median carina and no 
others. Head and thorax finely, delicately polygonally scaly. Third club joint not as distinctly 
separated as are the others. Lateral margins of scutellum subcarinate. Pronotum (dorsal 
aspect) transverse. Propodeal spiracle separated from caudal part of propodeum by a 
transverse, obtuse elevation of the surface (not a carina). 
Male : — ^Not knoAA'n. 
Described from one female captured either by sweeping in the jungle or else from a 
window ih a jungle settlement, December 30, 1911. 
Sahitat: Yungaburra, Queensland. 
Tyi)e: No. lIy346o, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the aboA^e specimen on a tag, the 
head and a hind tibia on a slide. 
In Uriellomyia the axillie are not advanced (the genotype examined). 
NEROPTROGERUS new genus. 
Female: — Agreeing with the description of Eoytrocerus Ashmead but the club solid, 
the antenna thus but 10-jointed. The postmarginal and marginal veins are longer but neither 
long. 
Male : — Unknown. 
Type: The folloAving species. 
1. NEROPTROCERUS SUBATER new species. 
Female: — ^Length, 1.80 mm. Stout, rather short. 
Black metallic green, the wings hyaline, the coxse concolorous, the legs yellowish brown, 
the cephalic femur concolorous. Scape concolorous with tlie legs, the pedicel dusky-brown, rest 
of antenna black. Funicle 1 longest, subequal to pedicel, somewhat longer than wide and 
widest distad; funicle 2 somewhat wider than long, 3 and following still wider. Panicle joints 
subpetiolate. Club longer than the two preceding joints united. Head and thorax uniformly 
densely shagreened (minute papilla) crowded together). Cross-suture of scutellum and 
parapsidal furrows well-defined, the latter complete. Propodeum subglabrous, the spiracle 
rather large, round, cephalad. Median carina of propodeum narrow, not straight. AsillsB not 
advanced. Segment 2 of abdomen occupying a third of the surface, caudal margins of all 
segments straight, 2 glabrous, the others scaly cephalad; segment 3 shortest, transverse. 
Described from one female captured in jungle, February, 11, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Rahitai: Babinda, Queensland. 
Type: No. Ry§778, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore 
and hind legs on a slide with type appendages of Retreulophus hifasciatifrons Girault. 
Tribe MERISINI. 
Genus AMICROMELUS Girault. 
This genus belongs to the Metastenini of the Miscogasteridse instead of the Trydymini 
as formerly stated by mistake. 
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