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4. NEOTETRASTICHODES ROBUSTUS new species of A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, li.lu mm. Kubusr. 



Dark metallic green, the coxa' concolorous, the rest of legs and antenual seaiie bright 

 golden .yellow; pedicel and ring-joints brownish, rest of antenna) blacli. Wings stained 

 .velloivish. Thorax with scattered bristles. Propodeum rather short and broad, with a median 

 carina. Abdomen conic-ovate, straight above, convex beneath. Scape slender, normal ; pedicel 

 elongate; funicle 1 distinctly longer than pedicel, nearl.y four times as long as wide, 2 no longer 

 than the pedicel, 3 shorter: clnli no longer than funicle 1, ivith a short terminal nipi)Ie; ring- 

 joints not large. 



Prom one female taken from a window, Cooktown, February 3, 1912 (A.A.G.). 



Habitat: Cooktown, Ayr, Ingham and Herberton, Queensland. 



Type: No. HyS5S6, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the Cooktown specimen on a tag, the 

 head on a slide. 



Also a female was taken from a window, Ayr, Novendier 7, 1912; one from a window, 

 Ingham, February 16, 1913; and another from a window, Herberton, December 2S, 1913 

 (A.A.Cx.). 



5. NEOTETRASTICHODES MERIDIALIS new species of A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, l.li.j mm. 



Very similar to robustus Dodd but smaller, the hind cox* golden yellow, tlie flagellum 

 wholly yellow-brown; wicgs hyaline; propodeum not sliort; pedicel as long as the elongate first 

 funicle joint; club longer than funicle 1. 



From one female from a window of a wonl stcjre, October 3, 1911 (A. A. Girault). 



Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 



Tiipi : Xo. ny3-JS7, Queensland Museum. P.risli.'mc, the female on a tag; head on a slide. 



6. NEOTETRASTICHODES MERIDIANUS new species. 



Female: — Length. 1.4(1 mm. 



Similar to maximus Dodd and Girault and a-neits Girault differing from tlie former in 

 not being very dark, black or nearly, but dark metallic green like wneiif:; also the fore wings 

 are smaller, the antennas dusky yellowish not black (except scape) and they are less robust. The 

 tibia; are all straw yellow, the femora eoucolorous. Differs from wneiis in having the femora 

 concolorous and the pedicel somewliat less elongate. The iironotum is long, the upper thorax 

 naked in all three species. 



From two females on a canl labelled '' No. 27. Nat. ^lus.. Victoria. From galls on gum. 



n.9f. " 



Habitat: Melliourue, Victoria. 



Type: No. HySSSS, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the two specimens on a card, a liend 

 on a slide. 



7. NEOTETRASTICHODES PERKINSI new species. 



Female: — Length, about l.l.j mm. 



Pale golden yellow-, the wings hyaline, the body marked with small black spots as 

 follows: Three marginal spots (wider than long) on piroximal half of abdomen and a minute 

 dot caudad of the third; a longer than wide, small spot on pronotum eaudo-laterad, one just 

 mesad of tegula and one on lateral propodeum, the three in a line cando-eeplialad but the line 

 obliqued a little caudo-mesad. Antennas as in Ootetrastichus beatus Perkins. First and fourth 

 ring-joints large, the inner two transverse-linear. Form like Ootetrastielms. Pedicel subequal 

 to funicle 3, club 1 longest. Funicle 3 much longer than wide. Mandibles tridentate. Tip of 

 valves of ovipositor black. 



From one female taken by sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, January 3, 1913 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy3589, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



