AVSTBALIAX JlYlIliXOFIEHA CII MAIDOIPEA. IV.—GIBAULT. 257 



PABAPKOSTOC'ETUS nen sciras. 

 Ijike TrichaporoirJplla Girault but the scutum bears a median sulcus. 



1. PARAPROSTOCETUS PURPUREITHORAX new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Lengtli. 1 uim. 



Dark metallic purple, the wiugs hyaline, the antennas, legs and abdomen rich golden 

 yellow, the abdomen with two purple cross-strij.es just betore tip, the second a little broader 

 and more distinct, the extreme tip purple and the latiM-;il margin along the short distance 

 between tip and the second or distal cross-stripe. Ti]) nf valves of ovipositor purple. Abdomen 

 conic-ovate, somewhat longer than the thorax. Fuiii<-le joints subecjual, each a little longer 

 than wide, the pedicel about equal to either of them ; second two ring-joints very short. Club 

 with a minute nipple at apex. Scape rather short. Mandibles trideutate but the third tooth 

 minute. Stignial vein short. Sculpture normal. Proiiodeum very finely scaly, very short at 

 the meson, without lateral carinse, the spiracle cephalad and in a short longitudinal depression 

 or half channel, the median carina present, very short. Thorax with scattered, inconspicuous 

 setaj which are not numerous. 



From one female captured by sweeping bushes on October 10, 191.5 (G. F. Hill). 



Saiitat : Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 



Type: No. IIy2Gll, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



2, PARAPROSTOCETUS SANNIO (Ciratilt). 

 From Quadrastichus. Propodeum with a median carina, no others: funicle joints as in 

 OotetrasUchus ieatns Perkins. Femora purple along dorsal edge. Marginal stripe of abdomen 

 broad. Second two ring-joints very short, usually concealed. Base of abdomen nearly free 

 from purple. Type re examiueil. A second female, type haliitat. February 19, 1914." 



nUOTRASTICHUS new genus of A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Similar to Telrastichiis Haliday but the antenna; 9 jointed, with four ring- 

 joints, two funicle and a solid club. 



1. DUOTRASTICHUS MONTICOLA new species of A. P. Dodd. Cxenotype. 



Female: — Length, 1.75 nun. , 



Head, legs (except dusk^v hind coxa») and basal tliinl of alidoraeu golden yellow. Thorax 

 very dark aeneous green, the scutellura chocolate brown, the postscutellum lemon yellow; apical 

 two thirds of abdomen dark brown, more or less obscurely, transversely striped with black; 

 ocelli in a dark area. Antenna; yellow-brown. With the usual fine tetrastichine sciilpture. 

 Median groove of scutum comjilete. Scutmn with a row of shallow punctate depressions just 

 within the parapsidal furrows. Abdomen conic-ovate, no longer than rest of body, almost 

 straight above, gently convex beneath. Propodeum rather short, scaly, with a median carina. 

 Wings hyaline, marginal vein as long as submarginal, stigmal moderately long. Pedicel rather 

 long but slightly shorter than either of the funicle joints, of which 2 is somewhat the largest; 

 club wider but no longer than preceding joint, with a short terminal nipple. Eyes garnet. 

 Mandibles tridentate. 



From one female captured tiy sweeping in forest, sunnnit of Mount Pyramid, 3,000 feet, 

 August 17, 1912 (A.A.G.). 



Haiitat: Mount Pyi'amid (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Ry S64S, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a 

 slide. 



' * A third, July 10. In tliis specimen the mesal two of tlie usual four (grooves on the scutellura were practically 

 absent, indicated at apex only. The coxje are purple. 

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