2e.S MEUOISS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



3. EUDECATOMA PAUCIPUNCTATA new species. 



Female: — Longtli, 3 mm. 



Honey yellow, the wings hyaline, the pronotiini latero-eeiihalad yellow, .^liilomen with 

 jibout four oross-stripes, each slightly darker than the ground color, shaped as in Eurytmna. 

 Thorax finely polygonally reticulated, the jironotum, caudal two thirds of scutum, scutellum 

 excejit mesad and inner margin and lateral half of parapsidcs with thimble punctures, more 

 numerous on scutum; cephalic tliird of scutum yery finely transyersely lined and caudad 

 (just caudad of the punctures) with an ocellus-like pimple. Propodeum with a uniform median 

 channel with cross-carina; within; also a median carina which forks at base (cephalad), each 

 arm running laterocaudad about half way to lateral margin, then abruptly changing angle, 

 running caudo-mesad to caudal margin, thus inclosing a large peltate area through whose 

 center runs the median channel. Pro])odeum rugulose. Abdomen glabrous, near apex with 

 slight reticulation. Closest to fcralis Girault but that species is impunctate and has a 3-jointed 

 club; also in this new species funicle 1 is longer than the pedicel (the club plainly 

 2-jointed). Differs from justiUa in color and also in having the evident punctures on the 

 thorax, justiUa having but very obscure ones on caudal scutum and its propodeum bears u 

 broader median channel with less distinct crosscarinse and there is no median carina (the 

 channel's lateral margins are earinated and there is a longitudinal carina just laterad). 

 Antenna; 10-jointed, the club 2-jointed, one ring-joint. Funicle 5 quadrate, 1 longest, less than 

 lialf the length of the slender scape. Tibial spurs double (hind legs). Petiole twice longer 

 than wide. 



Described from one female takeu from a wiiuhiw. February 4, 1014. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns). Queensland. 



Type: No. Ily3271, (Queensland Museum. Brisbane, one female on a tag, the head aiul 

 a hind leg on a slide. 



4. EUDECATOMA DECATOMOIDES new species. Female. 



Lengtii, 2.20 mm. 



This species dill'ers from the preceding in being umbilicately punctate as in Eiirytoma. 

 The propodeum is foveate-punctate and with a median channel as in paiicipmictata except that 

 there is a paired rcjw of wider than long fo-\-eie within it. The carina; in the meson are less 

 obvious. There are two small eye-sjiots of yellow on base of abdomen dorsad. Abdomen 

 glabrous, its petiole black, about twice longer than wide. 



Honey yellow, the wings hyaline; face of pronotum slightly, an obscure round spot 

 on scutum at meson of cephalic margin, apex of scutellum. median channel of propodeum, 

 jjetiole and dorsal aspect of abdomen exccjit just before tip, black. Marginal vein barely longer 

 than wide, stigmated as normal for this tribe, the postmarginal no longer than the stigmal, 

 both shorter than the marginal. Two sjiurs on caudal tibia;. Club 2-jointed, the antenna; 

 10-jointed; di.stal club joint the longer, sulicqual to funicle 1. Pedicel much shorter than the 

 funicle joints of which 2-.5 are cylindrical nval and snlie(|ual. a third or less shorter than 1. 

 -Mandibles stout, tridentate. 



llahitdl : Harvey's Creek (Cairns). (^>uccnslanil. .lungle, Xoveinlicr l.j, 191'! (A. P. 

 K.hI.I). 



Type: No. Hy3373, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, tlie female on a tag; head and hind 

 legs on a slide. 



5. EUDECATOMA TRINOTATA new species. 



Female: — Length, 2.1)0 mm. 



The same as eireuvuiotiila but the whok< mesothorax black, the occiput mostly black, 

 also the cephalic femora and nuist of projiodeum while on the pronotum there are three 

 roundish black spots, one on each side in the dorso-lateral aspect centrally, the other mesal at 



