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Pedicel slemler; funicle ] little longer than pedicel, fully three times as long as wide; 2 

 one half the length of 1, 3 slightly shorter than 2; club somewhat shorter than funicle 1; 

 ring-.ioints small about subequal. Notes from the following specimens: 



A female captured from a window at Mirani (Mackay), October, 1911. The abdomen 

 in this last specimen was suffused with brown; median groove of scutum complete, very 

 narrow; club pale. Compared with type. A female at Ayr, Queensland, forest, November 

 •0, 1912. One female, Cooktown, window. February, 1912. 



5. EPITETRASTICHUS VARICOLOR new species of A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 1.75 mm. 



Golden yellow; occiput, parajisidal furrows, grooves of scutelhmi and propodeum dark 

 brownish; abdomen nearly wholly dusky dorsad; legs and antennal seai)e pale yellow, rest 

 gC antennae black. Body slender, the abdomen slender, pointed conic-ovate. Median groove 

 ■ of scutum faint but complete. Propodeum rather short, scaly, with a pair of median carinae. 

 Wings hyaline. Flagellum very long and slender, funicle 1 somewhat longest of the funicle, 

 twice as long as pedicel, club somewhat longer than any of the funicle joints, the second 

 joint a little longer than the first, the third small. 



From one female caught by sweeping in forest, June 13, 1912 (A.A.G.). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy3S5o. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a 

 slide. 



' ' This species is very similar to Aprostocerella helloggi Girault but has only a little 

 blackish on cephalic scutum at cephalic margin centrally, the propodeum is wholly black 

 (yellow laterad of spiracle in Icelloggi) and somewhat longer at the meson and the pronotum 

 is broadly black across the meson nearly to the lateral margins. Only the face of pronotum 

 is black in I'elloggi and in this last species the cephalic half of scutum is blackish except along 

 jncili;ni line at lateral margins. Tyjies compared." (A. A. Girault.) 



6. EPITETRASTICHUS BICOLOR (Girault). 

 Tvtrasticliiix hicolor Girault in aiitea. 

 Female: — Length, l.lj.5 nun. 



Black; lower part of face, an area at insertion of wings, postscutellum, basal third 

 •or more of abdomen, legs (except base of hind coxa;) and antennal scape golden yellow; pedicel 

 dusky, flagellum fuscous; rest of abdomen brownish with darker ci-oss-stripes. Propodeum 

 with a median carina. Median groove of scutum not very distinct. Abdomen conic-ovate, 

 somewhat wider and longer than thorax. Funicle joints cylindrical ovate. 1 as long as pedicel 

 and distinctly longer than wide, 3 a little shorter than 1, the first club joint as long as the 

 other two combined. Fore wings broad, hyaline. 



From one female captured by sweeping in strip of jungle, April 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd), 

 "type locality. 



7. EPITETRASTICHUS LONGICLAVUS luw species of A. I'. Uodd. 

 Female: — Length, 1.60 mm. 



Agreeing with longfeUoivi Girault but differing as follows: All legs and antennal 

 scape and pedicel intense lemon yellow; abdomen almost wholly dark brown, slightly suft'used 

 with metallic, funicle 3 only slightly shorter than 1 and a little longer than the pedicel, club 

 much longer than funicle 1, the first two dull joints distinctly longer than wide (in longfellowi, 

 ■the second funicle joint is subequal to the pedicel, 3 distinctly shorter, the original description 



