AVSTSALIAX HYMEXOrTEBA CUALCIDOIDEA, IT .—GIBAULT. 219- 



Genus SYNTOJIOSPHYRUM Foerster. 

 1. SYNTOMOSPHYRUM FLAVISCUTELLUM Girault. 

 This species is a Sefitrichodtn which see. 



Genus MELITTOBIA Westwood. 

 1. MELITTOBIA AUSTRALICA tiiiault. 



A widely distributed species iu Eastern Australia. The male antenna; bear four fuuicle 

 joints, the fourth joint a little smaller than the tirst; the eyes are absent. The antennai of the 

 female bear three short ring-joints. The abdomen is subpetiolate, the petiole distinct in the 

 male yet short. Types re-examined. Antea, p. 205, under this heading, line 5, stained should 

 read starred. 



The folhjwing additional specimens have been seeu : Many specimens reared from the 

 larva) of Sceliphroii lo'tum at Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland, January 20, 1914 and again 

 in mid-February. Many females from the collections of the Queensland Museum at Brisbane, 

 labelled " Reared from wasji's nest, Brisbane, November 17, 1913. H. Hacker. Xo. 22." 

 The femora were darker in these specimens. One male, four females from the collections of 

 the National Museum. Melbourne, labelled " Bred out of old pupa case of muddauber wasp. 

 20.12.07. Bred from pupa of ? Psendariena. ^ scarce, 200-1. F. P. Spry." The 

 locality was near Melbourne, Victoria. Also a female captured by sweeping in forest, 

 Gordonvale, April. 1914. 



Genus TETRASTTr'HODES Ashmead. 



1. TETRASTICHODES MORUM Girault. 



Antea, p. 207, line S is meaningless. The species was captured in forest, early .January, 

 1913. The species belongs to Sclitrichodcs which see. 



2. TETRASTICHODES AUSTRALICUS Girault. 

 A female at Gordonvale, Queensland, forest, April 10, 191!!. AnUa, p. 20S, line 3, omit 

 the word ronnd. 



3. TETRASTICHODES (ZAGRAMMOSOMOIDES) MULTIFASCIATUS new name. 



Tvtraslielioilts faf:eiiihis (Girault). 

 This species w-as once referred to Telraslichus by mistake and has thus become confused 

 with the species fasciatus Ashmead of that genus. Tetrastiehella faseiateJla Girault was 

 descrilied as Tetrastichiis faseiains. Accordingly. I proixise the above name for this species. 



4. TETRASTICHODES MARGISCUTELLUM new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.35 nun. 



Like margiseutnm but only tlie inner grooves of scutellum are margined with pale 

 yellowish, the head and femora black but the face about the mouth is yellow. Tegula) dark; 

 scutum not margined. AxillsB very narrowly so with yellowish (mesad and cephalad). Funicle 

 3 is only slightly shorter than the other two while all are much wider than long. Caudal 

 margin of scutellum laterad of first groove narrowly yellow. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one fenuile ca;itini'd by swei'piiig in forest, Novemlier 7. 1912. 



Eabitat : Ayr, Queensland. 



Type: No. Ey'^ii^O, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the 

 head on a slide. 



