AUSTBALIAN EYMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA, IT.—GIBAULT. 21fr 



Genus SYNTOMOSPHYEUM Foerster. 



1. SYNTOMOSPHYRUM FLAVISCUTELLUM Girault. 

 This species is a Selitrichodes which see. 



Genus MELITTOBIA Westwood. 

 1. MELITTOBIA AUSTRALICA Girault. 



A widely distributed species in Eastern Australia. The male antennae bear four funicle 

 joints, the fourth joint a little smaller than the first ; the eyes are absent. The antennas of the 

 female bear three short ring- joints. The abdomen is subpetiolate, the petiole distinct in the 

 male yet short. Types re-examined. Antea, p. 205, under this heading, line 5, stained should 

 read starred. 



The following additional specimens have been seen : Many specimens reared from the 

 larvae of Sceliphron Icetum at Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland, January 20, 1914 and again 

 in mid-February. Many females from the collections of the Queensland Museum at Brisbane,, 

 labelled " Eeared from wasp's nest, Brisbane, November 17, 1913. H. Hacker. No. 22." 

 The femora were darker in these specimens. One male, four females from the collections of 

 the National Museum, Melbourne, labelled ' ' Bred out of old pupa case of muddauber wasp. 

 20.12.07. Bred from pupa of ? Pseudagena. £ scarce, 200-1. F. P. Spry." The 

 locality was near Melbourne, Victoria. Also a female captured by sweeping in forest, 

 Gordonvale, April, 1914. 



Genus TETRASTICHODES Ashmead. 



1. TETRASTICHODES MORUM Girault. 



Antea, p. 207, line 8 is meaningless. The species was captured in forest, early January,. 

 1913. The species belongs to Selitrichodes which see. 



2. TETRASTICHODES AUSTRALICUS Girault. 

 A female at Gordonvale, Queensland, forest, April 16, 1913. Antea, p. 208, line 3, omit 

 the word round. 



3. TETRASTICHODES (ZAGRAMMOSOMOIDES) MULTIFASCIATUS new name. 



Tetrastichodes faseiatus (Girault). 

 This species was once referred to Tetrastichus by mistake and has thus become confused 

 with the species faseiatus Ashmead of that genus. Tctrastichella fasciatella Girault was 

 described as Tetrastichus faseiatus. Accordingly, I propose the above name for this species. 



4. TETRASTICHODES MARGISCUTELLUM new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.35 mm. 



Like margiscutum but only the inner grooves of seutellum are margined with pale 

 yellowish, the head and femora black but the face about the mouth is yellow. Tegulse dark; 

 scutum not margined. Axillae very narrowly so with yellowish (mesad and cephalad). Funicle 

 3 is only slightly shorter than the other two while all are much wider than long. Caudal 

 margin of seutellum laterad of first groove narrowly yellow. 



Male:— Not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, November 7, 1912. 



Habitat: Ayr, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2550, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the- 

 head on a slide. 



