AUSTEALIAX ETMENOFTEHA CUALCIDOIDEA, IC—GIEAULT. 191 



1. BiEOENTEDON PECULICORNIS new species. Genotype. 



Fcmtilc: — Length, O.SO mm. 



Dark metallic purple, the wiugs hyaline, the abdomeu pale honey yellow, darker along 

 distal halt', there with several faintly indicated still darker and narrow eross-stripes. Distal 

 half of tibiaj, tlie antenna), the tarsi and hind legs beyond proximal half of femora white or 

 yellowish white. Thorax coarsely polygonally reticulated, the lines not raised. Club eonieally 

 produced at ajjex into a spine, conic-ovate, longer than the long pedicel, the funicle joint 

 urnshajied, a little longer than wide, distinctly shorter than the pedicel. Scape slender. Eing- 

 joiuts large and distinct, purple; pedicel purple at liase. 



Described from one female captured in .lungle, December 31, 1911. 



Habitat : Malanda, Queensland. 



Type: No. HySiSS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. the head on 

 a slide with the type appendages of Psciitlaciiiis qiKiilrifdriiuitiis Girault. 



Tribe TETR-VCWIPINT. 



Genus TETR.\(.'.\MPK Foerster. 



1. TETRACAMPE AUSTRALIENSIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, l.oil mm. 



Dark metallic green, the abdnminal ]ietiole, legs and antennal scape bright golden 

 yellow, rest of antennje black. Fore Avings hyaline; discal cilia not arranged in regular lines; 

 nuirgiual cilia not long; submarginal vein somewhat broken; marginal vein as long as 

 submargiual, twice as long as postmarginal; stigmal vein with a small knob, short, one fifth 

 as long as the marginal. Antenna; inserted below jniddle of face; 12-jointed, 1 ring-joint, 

 funicle joints and a 3-jointed dub; scn|ie sleiuler; pedicel larger than first funicle joint; 

 funicle joints filiform, first a little tlie longest, two thirds longer than wide; club scarcely 

 wider than funicle, as long as last two funicle joints united, the joints about subec|ual. 

 Posterior tibial with one apical spur; tarsi .5-joiuted. Mesoideura without sutures. Pronotum 

 rather large. .'-irutum with distinct [larapsidal furrows. Scutellnin with a rather fiiint 

 cross-suture. Pronotum, scutum and scutellum with very fine polygonal scaly sculpture. 

 Propodeum rather short, glabrous, with a median carina and several irregular lateral carinse. 

 Abdominal petiole as long as the hind coxa'; abdominal segments not excised at meson of 

 caudal margin; suture between second and third segments deep; second .segment longest, equal 

 to one fifth of surface. JIandibles bidentate. 



From one fenuile caught liy sweeping in forest, -August 7, 1913 (A.A.G.). 



JliihiUil : (iordiinvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: Xo. Uy249l. Queensland Museuui, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head and 

 posterior legs on a slide. 



TETR.ACAMPOIPES new genus of A. P. Pn.ld. 



Female: — Head normal; autennai inserted near the mouth border, 12-jointed with one 

 ring-joint and a 3-jointed club; funicle joints wider than long. Pronotum distinctly separated; 

 scutum with deep complete parapsidal furrows; scutellum simple; propodeum with a tooth 

 laterad at the middle, not short, with a distinct median and fainter lateral carina). AxillEe 

 not advanced. Marginal vein as long as the submarginal, many times length of stigmal, tlie 

 postmarginal twice as long as the stigmal. the latter of moderate length. Hind tibiaB with 

 two apical spurs. Mandibles bidentate. .Vbdomen sessile, gently convex above and beneath, 

 second segment occu)iving over half of surface. Resendding tlie Entedonini in many respects." 



Hale: — Not known. 



The number of tarsal joints is not stated, l)ut there are doubtless five. 



