AVSTBALIAX HYMEKOPTEBA CHAJ.ilDOlDEA, IV.—GISAULT. Zi7 



Genus EPITETRASTIOHUS Girault. 

 Thf uame Pentustichoilcs is nalced and witliout standing in nomeuclature. 



1. EPITETRASTICHUS SPECIOSISSIMUS Guault. 



The type specimen was captured in grass iii';ir a canefield, Babinda, October 29, 1911. 

 The siith abdominal marginal spot is open laterad, the first at base joined across meson. 

 The conical marking of scutum may go only to apex of tliat part. One female, Gordonvale, 

 forest, August S. 1914. 



2. EPITETRASTICHUS FLAVIPOSTSCUTELLUM Girault. 



Leiigtb. 1 iiini. Wings liyaliue. 'l'y])e female was captured December 27, 191.3 by 

 sweeping in the forest along Cape River; it is on a tag, the head on a slide. 



3. EPITETRASTICHUS XANTHER (Girault). 



A common forest species. Antcu (these memoirs, II), p. 200, line 1 under this species, 

 face should read occipul. The species is distinct from nigrivcntris. The thoracic pleura are 

 often suifused with dusky, the cross-stripes of alMlomen are regular, often alternately less 

 broad or slightly incomplete laterad. Funiele joints subequal to each other and to the pedicel. 

 The club bears a short nipple. Propodeum sliort at the meson, there with a median carina. 

 A female in the type locality, November S, sweeping edges of a forest streamlet. 



' ' The black stripes across the abdomen are often obscure and suffused. One female, 

 Rossville (Cooktown), Queensland, February 23, 1912, sweeping jungle along a roadside 

 (A. .4.6.) and another from forest, Mecrawa, Queensland, July 26, 1913 (A.A.G.)'' — A. P. 

 Dodd. 



A. EPITETRASTICHUS XANTHER HILLI new variety. 



Like xanthcr but the abdomen lias but tmir i-ross-stripes commencing from proximal 

 fourth, at base yellow; the body is smaller ;in(l the postscutellum yellow. Funiele 1 is also 

 a little longer than the others, 3 subglobular. .Vnteinnc yellowish, also seutellum. Propodeum 

 with a median carina but no true lateral one. 



From one female taken from bushes, October 10, 1913 (G. F. Hill). 



Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 



Type: No. By3.59:3, Queensland iluseani, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 



4. EPITETRASTICHUS LONGFELLOWI Girault. 



Synonyms: Eiiontpludoirh s ririilis. Girault; Etiilelrd.slicliiis nympha Girault. 



The median carina of propodeum links only at ajpex and is (juite solid. The abdomen 

 has no petiole. Type re-examined. 



The median carina of propodeum in this species and in nympha broadens just before 

 distal end into a fork but the latter is solid; the oblong propodeal spiracle is near lateral 

 margin, its long axis caudo-cephalad. Both are the same yet the caudal wings in nympha 

 are slightly narrower and there is no yellow on the abdomen. The species wneithorax differs 

 from both in having the scutum naked and as otherwise indicated. Types re-examined. 



Dark metallic purple; legs bright golden yellow, the cephalic coxs suffused with 

 metallic; antennal scape yellow, i)edieel brown, rest black. Wings hyaline. Scutum with 

 scattered bristles from setigerous imnctures; median groove of scutum complete, narrow. 

 Propodeum moderately short, with fine scaly sculpture; lateral ca-rinio absent; median distinct. 



