AUSTBALIAX HYUKNurTEliA CHALCIDOWEA, IV.—CIHAULT. 225 



Genus OOTETRASTICHUS Perkins." 

 Ili'ail (ceiihalie asjicct) longer tlian wiili>, tlie yenal suture long, deep. 



1. OOTETRASTICHUS BEATUS Perkins. 

 TTnt'ortuiiately, the marginal spots on the abdomen of this species are not definitely 

 desi'rilied.' The following apparent new varieties. Atilca, p. 217, line 3, dots should read spots. 



A. OOTETRASTICHUS BEATUS ANCEPS new variety. Female. 



Golden yellow; quite as deseribed for the f.vi)ical form. The five marginal spots on 

 abdomen are round, rather large and extend from near base to distal two thirds. Markings 

 only slightly metallic. Characterized apparently by the rather large marginal spots on abdomen. 

 General color fades after death to pale yellow. 



From one female cajitured by sweeping iji a weedy Chinese garden. November 3, 1912. 



Habitat: Proserpine, Queensland. No tyjie. 



B. OOTETRASTICHUS BEATUS AFFINIS new varhty of A. P. Dodd and A. A. Girault. 



Fi'iiiiilc: — Lengtli, l.Gl) njni. I'ale lemon yellou and agreeing with Perkins's description 

 of beatus beatits except that the spots on the lateral margins of abdomen are not spots but 

 transverse dashes (except a dot at base: four transverse dashes). 



Described from one female captured by sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, 

 January 3, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns ). Queensland. 



Type: No. 7/j/ .'.ib'.;, (^lueenslaml ^luseuni. lirisbane, the female on a tag, the head on 

 a shde. 



2. OOTETRASTICHUS LUSTRIS Giraidt. 

 This is the genotype of Proceratoncura in tlie Ceratonourini, described on a later page. 

 Antca. p. 218, line 7 of the diagnosis one should read are. 



3. OOTETRASTICHUS CONSIMILIS Girault. 

 A female, forest, type locality, April H, 191 i. The pronotum and propodeum have a 

 pur]ilish tinge. First three stripes of abdomen more distinct than the fourth, the third strijio 

 a little distad of middle. The marginal black of abdomen is more or less broken. Propodeum 

 scaly, with a median carina but no trrie lateral ones. 



4. OOTETRASTICHUS SILVENSIS Girault. 

 This belongs to Neotetrant ieliodcs which see. 



5. OOTETRASTICHUS GUTTATUS (iirault. 



A female from forest, type locality, August 13 and December 14, 1913. The markings 

 are dark metallic green. A dot on pronotum cantlodaterad. Propodeum on each side dusky. 

 Fifth marginal spot on abdomen much smaller than the others. Mandibles tridentate. Valves 

 of ovipositor shortly extruded. Funicles 2 and 3 subecjual. AxilliB coucolorous (soiled in the 

 type). Stigmal vein long; wings slender. The large oval fuscous spot in center of abdomen 

 at base absent (in the type due to debris). Allied with fasciativentris. Type re-examined. 



"The species /a.?eM(irpn(/-is is common at Gordonvale. Queen.shuiJ, from wliere it was deseribed from specimens 

 captured in December, 1912. The ti/jte is on a tag and slide. 



' " Four or five pairs of m.irginal spots" wh'ch nuiy ni.'^an four or five jiairs (8-10) on each raarciu (16-20) or 

 four or five on e.ach side (8-10). I liave taken it to mean four or five alons; each margin, since really paired 

 marginal miirl<ings are rare (an e.xample is (irotiusie'ln multiuuttata described in part XIV). Also, the spots nia\' be 

 roimd. square, or and so fortli. 

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