AVSTEALIAH^ HYMENOPTEBA CSALCIDOIBEA, VI.—GIEAVLT. 
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MUSCIDEOMYIA new genus. 
Female : — ^Agrees with the description of Amiiscidea Giraiilt but the postmarginal vein 
is somewhat longer than the stigmal, the scutellum is without a cross-suture, the abdomen is 
-conic-ovate, longer than the thorax and the mandibles are 3- and 4-dentate, long and slender. 
Otherwise the same except as noted below. 
1. MUSCIDEOMYIA NIGRICYANEA new species. Genotype. 
Female: — Length, 0.80 mm. Small, graceful, the abdomen pointed. 
Very dark metallic blue-black, the abdomen dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; 
middle and caudal tibim very pale orange yellowish, the tips of tibiae and the tarsi white. 
Scape white, the pedicel black, rest of anteiinaB brown. Thorax reticulate scaly, the propodeum 
:smooth, very short, the spiracle minute, round, the propodeiini shorter at the meson, noncarinate. 
Abdominal segments not lengthened, the abdomen normal. Stigmal vein with a rather large 
knob. Pedicel stout, longer than any of the funicle joints which widen distad, 5 largest. 
Riiig-joint small. Club large, its joints distinct, wider than the funicle but not as long. 
Funicle 2 shortest, transverse, 1 globular. Flagellum armed with stiff setae. 
Male: — 'Not known. 
Described from one female taken in jungle along the Herbert River, April 6, 1914 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Hatitat: Halifax, Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 2785, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and hind 
tibi® on a slide with type appendages of N eomphaloidella hrevis Girault. 
Genus ANYSIS Howard. 
Antennas as with ziplio'betus, except that funicle joint 2 is twice as long as 1; 3, 4 and 
5 subequal in length, increasing in width, and each slightly shorter than 2. Eyes naked; head 
very broad; occiput strongly concave, its superior margin acute. Thorax well arched; 
parapsidal sutures meeting axillar sutures; scutellum broad at base, somewhat lengthened, 
extending over metanotum to vertical plane of base of abdomen, not cross-furrowed. Petiole 
distinct but very short; abdomen without basal tufts; second segment scarcely half the length 
of the abdomen. Marginal vein of fore wings three times longer than stigmal, postmarginal 
about as long as stigmal or slightly shorter; basal nervure not distinct. Basal nervure of 
hind wings extending at an acute angle toward base of wing. Spur of hind tibia short. 
1. ANYSIS AUSTRALIENSIS Howard. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 1.7 mm.; expanse, 3,8 nun.; greatest width of fore wings, .74 mm. General 
color blue-black, slightly metallic, glistening. Head and thorax with short, sparse, yellowish 
pile; face delicately shagreened and with fine sparse punctures; mesonotum similarly 
punctured; metanotum, pleura, and abdomen smooth; metanotum -witli a median longitudinal 
rounded carina. Antennas light brown, tip of club darker, i)edicel and tip of scape above 
black; all femora nearly black in middle, lighter at eacli end; tibiae broAvu. Wing veins dark 
brown, fore wings infuscated, hind wings hyaline/^ 
Habitat: West Australia. Associated wdth Coccids. 
Types: Most probably in the United States National Museum at Washington, D.G,, 
U.S.A. 
