230 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Fi'oni one female captured by sweeping forest, March 30, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. By £574, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a' 

 slide. 



A female taken in forest, same locality, February 16, 191 U (A. M. Lea and A.A.G.) 

 had no distinct stripes on abdomen but two stripes within the margined jiart were indicated 

 from each side; the funicle and club were yellow not blackish. This new variety may take the 

 name of pcrfecta. No type. 



Both elegaiUa and radius bear a spot on latero-caudal angle of pronotum just cepiialad 

 of the green on the parapside. Tyjies of both species compared. 



7. TRICHAPOROIDELLA MAUPAUSSANTI new .species. 



Female: — Length, 1.40 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the legs, ventral third of head, center of 

 propleurum, tegula) and abdomen except at distal third and lateral margins obscurely all 

 rouud, dorsad, dull golden yellow; three dusky stripes on abdomen dorsad across the yellow 

 proximal portion. Scape yellow except at tip above, the rest of antenna; fuscous. Pedicel 

 a little shorter than funicle 3, funicle 1 shorter than the club, nearly thrice longer than wide,- 

 longest. Pedicel long. Postscutellum brownish. Propodeum witli median carina and no 

 others, scaly. Scutum naked. Color of abdomen darkens rapidly after drying. Surface of 

 propodeum not as rough as in suhcEnea whose scutum is also naked. 



From one female caught in forest, .lanuary 23, 1913. 



Hahitat: Townsville, Queensland. 



Type: No. HySS?.'), Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



Dedicated to Guy de Maupaussant. 



8. TRICHAPOROIDELLA PESSULUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.83 mm. 



Very similar to the preceding but all of head except vertex and the sides and venter 

 of thorax are golden yellow, the body is stouter and the three cross-stripes on abdomen are 

 interrupted at meson, the third longest (cephalo-caudad) ; the lateral margin of abdomen is 

 more distinctly margined dorsad. Postscutellum concolorous. 



From one female caught .January 23, 1913 sweeping forest. 



Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy S576. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type 

 of preceding .species. 



Genus TETRASTICHOMOEPHA Girault. 

 1. TETRASTICHOMORPHA FLAVA Girault. 



This species differs in colur from Neolricliaporoiilcs uniijaiiaius as described. The 

 fore wing is large, the marginal vein long, much longer than the submarginal, the stigmal 

 short. A dot at extreme caudo-lateral angle of the pronotum (flara only). There is a median 

 carina on the propodeum in both species and no other cavino?; both are large yet slender. 

 Types re-examined. 



The species flava measures 2.20 mm. Propodeal spiracle round. Funicle and club 

 black; wMngs hyaline; tip of valves of ovipositor black; cliiT) terminating in a nipple. The- 

 type female was taken in forest, April ,5, 1913. 



