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MEMOIUS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Postmargiual vein absent, the stigraal long but soniewliat shorter than the marginal. Scutellum 
simple. Second segment of abdomen occupying only a third of the surface, together with 
the third segment which is shorter, occupying one half. Fourth segment transverse linear. 
Propodeum at apex contracted into a short neck which appears like a petiole but is not 
cousidered so. Pronotum about half the length of the scutum. Postscutellum short, crescentic, 
foveate, the scutellum at apex very broadly or flatly convex. Propodeum with a short median 
Carina between its neck and the apex of x^ostscutellum on either side of which are fovese 
arranged transversely. Abdomen depressed, ovate, as long as the thorax. Hind femur swollen. 
Parai^sidal furrows distinct. Occiput concave. Frons broad. Propodeal spiracle minute, 
round. Head lenticular. 
Male: — Not known. 
Type: The following species. 
1. MUSCIDEA BRUNNEIVENTRIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.30 mm. 
Black with a pur^^lish tinge, the wings hyaline, the abdomen, legs and antenn© yellowish- 
brown, the head and thorax reticulated, shining, the propodeum foveate. Distal third of 
abdomen above sordid. Lateral wing of propodeum (at the spiracle and for some distance 
around) glabrous. Funicle 5 longest and widest, distinctly wider than long as are the others, 
1 smallest, 2 longer, 3 and 4 subequal, still longer but distinctly smaller than 5 which is much 
shorter than the normal pedicel. 
Described from one female eax>tured in forest, August 7, 1913. 
HaMtat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. EyS78S, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the sx^ecimen on a tag; head, a fore 
wing, middle and hind tibia on a slide. 
MUSCIDEOPSIS new genus. 
Female: — ^Like 2Iuscidea but the mandibles tridentate, the postmarginal and stigmal 
veins well developed, not very long but distinct, the postmarginal vein somewhat longer than 
the stigmal and two thirds the length of the inarginal. Seiitellum with a punctate cross-furrow. 
The second abdominal segment oecux)ies about one half of the surface. Otherwise about the 
same but the pronotum is not more than a fourth the length of the scutum. Habitus of 
a basine proctotypoid. Abdominal segments following 2 transverse linear. 
1. MUSCIDEOPSIS GOLDSMITHII new species. Genotype. 
Female: — ^Length, 1 mnn 
Dark metallic blue, the abdomen, logs and anteunie liouey yellow, the wings hyaline, the 
venation pale yellow. Body ^nolished; frons with scattered minute setigerous punctures. 
Cephalic coxce bluish. Parapsidal furrows punctate. Scutellum about as long as the scutum. 
Thorax with a few long setin fi’om minute punctures. Neck of i)ropodeum appearing from 
above like a short, stout abdouiinal petiole. Ring-joint minute; pedicel distinctly longer than 
any of the funicle joints of which 5 is largest, thrice the size of 1 and distinctly wider than 
loug; all funicle joints wider than long, widening distad; club three fourths the length of the 
funicle. Scape slender. Propodeum with strong, irregular carinse. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female taken by sweeping along a jungle-clad forest streamlet, 
March 25, 1914. 
EoFitai: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey2784, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head and 
two hind tibiae on a slide. 
Dedicated to Oliver Goldsmith. 
