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MKMOIUS OF Till-: ()1'I-:E\SI..ISI> Ml'^El'M. 



4. TETRASTICHELLA TRICOLOR mw species. 



Fiiiiiili: — Longtli. 1 nitii. 



Dark l.rown, tlip legs ii-xi-eiit iimsi uT liiiid icixa ) anil scape pale yellow; luuer lialf 

 (il iaCP and ventral margin of oe.-i|>iit lemon yellow; abilomen golilen yellow, bearing four 

 cross-stripes of fuscous beginning a little ilistad of pr;)\-imal third: tlie first three of thesp 

 stripes are so close together and m. niiuli dilfn^ed as to form what apjiears to be one broad 

 fnscons stripe across the abdomen at aljoni middle; the fourth strijie is midway between 

 apex and the third stripe (or distal margin of the broad stripe). Propodeum with a median 

 carina and no others, scaly reticiUale. Stigmal vein long, the postmarginal absent. Wings 

 liTaline. Second two ring-joints i-xtremely short, hidden between the first and funicle 1. 

 Pedicel and funicle joints siileijnal, the funicle joints sulir|nadrate or else slightly longer 

 than wide. Mandibles trideutate. 



From rme female reared fnnn }iiiscellaneous galls on Kncalyptus, November, 1912. 



Hcilitnl : Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2653, Queensland Museum, P.risbane. the specimen on a slide. 



OkaUS APK()S'rOrKKRI,LA fiirault. 

 1. APROSTOCERELLA KELLOGGI Girault. 



Length. 1.3.5 mm. Fnnn-ic- 1 slightly shorter than the pedicel, sligiitly longer than 2 

 or 'i. Propodeum short, with a nu'dian carina. The type was captured by sweeping along a 

 jungle path and consists of a female on a tag and a slide with the head. The abdomen 

 appears to have but three cross-strijies. Tyjie re-examined. 



2. APROSTOCERELLA 10 Ginudt. 



A female, type locality', jungle, .lune 29. This s]iecinK-n was metallic juirple. Propodeum 

 without lateral carina?, the median cariute cuniplete. Scape more in' less dusky. First ring- 

 joint much the longest. 



3. APROSTOCERELLA FLAVA Girault. 



I have vm-ified the median gri.n\ed li t sciiinm for the tyj'e fenmle. 



4. APROSTOCERELLA FULGENS new species. 



FemaU : — Length, l.SO mm. 



Brilliant golden yellow, the broad tore w uigs hyaline; face of pronotnm. ce]ihalic 

 margin of propodenm and three cross-stripi s on abdomen jet black ; first cross-stripe of abdomen 

 at apex of about proximal third, narrow, widely interrupted at the meson, the second broader, 

 complete, the third abbreviated laterad. A minute marginal dot precedes the first cross-stri]*. 

 Tip of abdomen and ovipositor conccdorous. Funicle and club dusky black; scape and pedicel 

 concolorons. The latter dusky at base above; three distal Ting-joints extremely short, first 

 long; pedicel oliconic, subequal to funicle 2 which is longest, 1 shortest, barely longer than 

 wide, H intermediate between 1 and 2; club with a -^liort terminal spine which is distinct. 

 Mandibles tridentate. Club two thirds or more the length of the funicle. Propodeum dusky 

 and short at the meson, with a distinct median c-arina there which forks at apex, the lateral 

 carina absent, the spiracle rather large, round-(i\al. 



From one female specimen cajitured in finest, .lanuary 8, ]9f4 (A. P. Dodd). 



Ifiihiliit: Gordonvale (Caiins). Queensland. 



Ti/iic: Xo. Itji?C?i:. (Jneensland .Mnsinim. l!Yislj:ine, the specimen on a tag, the head on 

 a slide. 



