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MEMOIBS OF TEE QUEENSLJNE MUSEUM. 
Tribe SPHEGIGASTERINI. 
The Australian genera of this tribe may need thorough revision. The genera are 
difficult to define. 
Genus SYNTOMOPUS Walker. 
1. SYNTOMOPUS AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. 
The propodeum bears three distinct carina3, a median and two lateral. The type is 
probably a femalOj stated to be a male in the original description. It has been re-examined. 
The type measures 1.75 mm., is on a slide and ■was captured at Kuranda, Q., December 18, 
1912. 
Genus MERISMUS Walker. 
1. MERISMUS SQUAMOSUS new species. 
Female: J^ength, 1.20 mm. 
Dark purplish, the wings hyaline, the stigmal ■\'eiu about half the length of the marginal, 
the postmarginal distinctly longer than the stigmal. Legs yellowish brown, also the scape. 
Thorax reticulate scaly, the scutellum distad of the transverse line glabrous. Propodeum long, 
with a short neck, strongly tricarinate. Second abdominal segment occupying somewhat over 
half of the surface, deeply semieircularly emargiuate, the third segment not half its length. 
Mandibles 4'dentate. Petiole a little longer than the hind coxa3. Club long, with an apparent 
fourth joint near tip, the distal funicle joints quadrate, funicle 1 subequal to the pedicel, 
somewhat longer than wide. Antenna3 13-jointed with two ring-joints. Pronotum transverse, 
its cephalic margin subacute. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, April 7, 1913. 
Edbitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. EyB790, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 
and hind legs on a slide. 
2. MERISMUS SCUTELLARIS new species of A. P, Dodd and A. A. Girault. 
Female: — Length, 1.75 mm. 
Dark metallic green, the legs (including the eoxse) and antennal scape golden yellow, 
rest of antenuge black. Scutum and propodeum densely reticulated, the parapsides, axillse and 
scutellum almost smooth, and shining. Scutellum with a very distinct cross-suture and also 
with a deep oval fovea or depression in its centre. Pi'opodeum long, strongly tricarinate. 
Abdomen short, convex above, straight beneath, the petiole as long as the hind coxa?, the second 
segment occupying over half of the surface, its caudal margin straight. Wings hyaline; 
marginal vein scarcely longer than the jjostmargiiial aud twice as long as the stigmal. Mandibles 
4-dentate. Pedicel somewhat longer than any of funicle joints which are subquadi’ate, a 
little longer than wide, club joints longer than wide. 
Described from one female caught sweeping foliage and grass along the Mulgrave River, 
mostly jungle, March 30, 1913 (A.A.G.). 
Eabitat: Mulgrave River (Gordonvale), Queensland. 
Type: No. EyS791, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 
aud hind leg on a slide. 
