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purple from base to a little beyond middle, tlie tip above is purple and is preceded by a cross- 
stripe of purple; between this cross-stripe and the end of the marginal stripe there is along 
the margin a dot of purple (hellicosiis has the abdomen brown and margined all around with 
blackish purple, the distal fourth or somewhat more, jjurplish). The antennte are very similar 
except that in this species the joints are a little longer (in both the joints shorten distad, 1 
being somewhat longer than sis which is only a little longer than wdde) ; in gracilis 2 and 3 
are subequal aud somewliat the longest, longer than G; in aiisiraliensis the joints are all some- 
what longer than wide and subequal. In gracilis, the abdomen is margined somewhat as in 
this species but more obscurely, the colors dull and the pattern obscured. Scutum and scutellum 
scaly pimctate, the propodeum ruguloso; cephalic part of scutum, prouotum and head scaly 
(sculptured as in helHcosus except that in that species the scutellum is not punctate but rather 
coarsely scaly). 
Described from one female captured in forest, April 12, 1914. 
HaLiiat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. My S8B1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 
hind legs on a slide. 
A second female was obtained same place, May 21, 1914. 
EPILELAPS new genus. 
With a distinct lelaj)ine habitus. Hind tibial spurs single. Pore wings nearly as in the 
Entedoniuae, the submarginal vein broken and somewhat shorter than the long marginal, the 
postmarginal longer than the stigmal, only moderate in length. Fore wings rather slender, with 
long marginal cilia. Antennre inserted slightly ventrad of middle of the face, 13-jointed with 
one ring-joint (but in the gemotype, funicle 1 is distinctly wider than long), the club 3-jointed, 
wider than the funicle. Axillro rather widely separated. Parapsidal furrows complete. Club 
rather abruptly formed. Wiugs without a pattern, hyaline or subhyaline. Mandibles tridentate. 
Other structures as in Lelaps. 
1, EPILELAPS HYALINIPENNIS new species. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 1.75 mm. Black, the wiugs hyaline, the abdominal petiole, neck of propodeum 
and the abdomen ventrad, yellowish brown. Legs yellow, also the antenna but the club black; 
pedicel elongate, one ring-joint, the funicle joints all more or less subquadrate. Scutellum 
distad of transverse suture (or distal third) longitudinally striate. Thorax scaly punctate, 
the propodeum rugose, with a tooth dorso-laterad, distad of middle. Abdomen glabrous. Prono- 
tum separated, transverse. A common species. 
HaLUat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 7, 1913, two females. 
Type: No. MySSSS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag, a hind leg and 
the head on a slide. 
2. EPILELAPS PONDEROSA new species. Female. 
Length, 1.35 nim. Much like the genotype but the wings slightly embrowned throughout, 
the abdomen dorsad is black only at proximal and distal thirds, the proximal funicle joint is 
transverse like a ring-joint yet twice the length of the ring-joint and the distal funicle joint 
is blackish. Segment 2 of abdomen over half the length of that region. Mandibles tridentate. 
Mahitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 16, 1913. 
Type: No. MySSSS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the 
head and appendages on a slide with the type of Aplxelinus nox Girault. 
A second female was taken in the jungle at Gordonvale, July 24, 1913. Compared with 
type. The postmarginal vein is twice the length of stigmal, the latter rather short. Abdominal 
petiole longer than wide but shorter than the long caudal coxae. Original description verified. 
