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Genus POLYCYSTOIDES Girault. 
1. POLYCYSTOIDES TENNYSONI Giratdt. 
A female May 14, 1914 by sweeping in forest, Gordonvale. General color black. The 
fore wings are a little stained proxiinad. The suture across scutellum is really a ridge and 
has the appearance of being the apical margin. Type re-examined. The latter is a female 
on a tag, the head and hind legs on a slide. It measures 2.50 mm. and was taken April 13, 
1913. 
Genus HYPOPTEEOMALUS Ashmead. 
1. HYPOPTEROMALUS VIRIDESCENS (Walsh). 
In the detailed description of this North American species given in the Bulletin of the 
Wisconsin (U.S.A.) Natural History Society, x (1912), on page 25, second line from bottom, 
Cex}halic as'pect should read Dorsal aspect. 
2. HYPOPTEROMALUS DUBIUS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 
Female: — ^Length, 1.25 mni. 
Differing from the detailed generic description {see Bulletin of Wisconsin (U.S.A.) 
Natural History Society, vol. x, 1-2, June, 1912) in lacking the median carina of the propodeum 
and the obscure cross-suture on the scutellum; the first funiele joint is small, like a ring- joint 
and much smaller than the second; and the abdomen, viewed from lateral aspect, is not almost 
triangular, its ventral margin being but gently convex. 
Very dark metallic green, almost black; the imopodeum (except at meson) and the 
abdomen much briglitcr green, the latter suff’iised with brown; coxa) and femora brown; 
tibia), tarsi and antennal scape golden ytdlovv; rest of autenuiu fuscous. Wings hyaline, 
venation as in JJypopteromalus viridcscens (Walsh). Mandibles 3 and 4-dentate, the teeth 
acute. Head somendaat wider than thorax; thorax rather short and broad, not much longer 
than wide; scutum fully twice as wide as long, the parapsidal fnrrows only indicated 
anteriorly; scutellum, viewed from lateral aspect, distinctly convex. Propodeum rather short 
and broad; latt'val carina^ inconspicuous; sj)U'ac-les not large, with rather delicate spiracular 
sulci. Thorax rather finely reticulated, the reticulation in raised lines. Abdomen somewhat 
sliorter and narrower than thorax; petiole short; second segment occupying one third of the 
surface; remaining segments .aboTit subeqiial. Pedicel distinctly longer than any of the 
funiele joints; first funiclo joint small; second distinctly larger; 2-6 subquadrate, wider than 
long; club barely twice as long as wide, the throe clnb joints about subequal. 
Described from one female caught by sweeping in forest, August 13, 1913 (A. A. Girault). 
UaVitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. IIyS79S-, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 
and a hind leg on a slide. 
SPHEGIPTEROSEMA new genus. 
Eor diagnosis, see aniea (these Memoirs, II), p. 323. The genotype is a new species. 
It measures 1.90 mm. and wms taken in May, 1913. Its type is on a tag, the head and hind 
legs on a slide. 
1. SPHEGIPTEROSEMA AUSTRALIENSIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 
Female: — Length, 2.50 mm. 
Head and thoi-ax very dark metallic green, almost black, the coxge concolorous; rest of 
legs bright golden yellow^; abdomen metallic purplish, its petiole yellow^; antennal scape and 
pedicel yellow, rest of antennm black. Antenuge 13-jointed, with two ring and three club 
