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III, IV and V of abdomen transverse. Antenne the same except 
as noted. 
This genus should be compared with Eriglyptus Crawford. 
TETRASTICHINI 
Genus Tetrastichus Haliday 
1. Tetrastichus victoriensis new species 
Female—Length, 1.35 mm. Shining black, the median grooved 
line of the scutum and the lateral margins of the scutellum 
straw yellow as are also the antenne and venation, tarsi, knees 
and portions of the tibie#; thorax with metallic purplish reflee- 
tions. Wings very slightly embrowned throughout. Thorax 
extraordinarily finely longitudmally lined. A slight stam under 
apex of stigmal vein. Antenne normal (ten-jointed, two ring- 
joints), the pedicel long obconic, the proximal and distal joints 
of the funicle subequal, jomt IT shorter than either and sub- 
quadrate. 
(From six specimens, the same magnification). 
Male—Not known. 
Described from six female specimens mounted on a single 
eard labelled ‘‘Chalcids parasitic on cynipid galls on Acacia 
discolor, Melbourne’’. Received from the Acting Government 
Entomologist of Victoria, C. French Jnr. 
Habitat—Australia—Melbourne, Victoria. 
Type—No. Hy 1200, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 
specimens, plus a slide bearing a fore wing and head. 
2. Tetrastichus fasciatus new species 
Female—Length, 2 mm., more or less. General color lemon 
yellow, the abdomen darker; disk of the cephalic half of the 
seutum darker like the abdomen (except more or less along 
the meson), the center of the scutum with a fuscous round spot 
on each side of the meson, each spot at the apex of the darker 
portions on each side; propodeum cephalad, parapsidal fur- 
rows and suture between seutum and scutellum, black; also the 
margins of the scutelluam more broadly laterad. Abdomen 
more or less distinctly banded transversely with black (very 
