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8. TETRASTICHODES QUINQNIGRIMACULiE new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.35 mm. 



Honey yellow, the wings hyaline, the legs and antennae concolorous. Face of pronotum, 

 two round spots in centre of scutum, one at base of scutellum centrally, an elliptical 

 oval spot filling the cephalic portion of each axilla and three narrow cross-stripes 

 indicated from each side along proximal half of abdomen, black. Meson of abdomen sordid 

 just beyond proximal half. Propodeum with a very short complete median carina. Post- 

 marginal vein half the length of the stigmal. Mandibles tridentate. Distal club joint short, 

 ■with a small terminal spur; scape compressed; pedicel rather long, distinctly longer than the 

 second funicle joint which is somewhat longer than wide; funicle joints 1 and 3 subquadrate 

 or 3 sometimes wider than long, none very unequal. Hind tibial spurs single. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female reared from fleshy galls on gum, March 20, 1911 (F. P. 

 Spry). 



Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. 



Type : No. Hy 2553, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the 

 antenna and mandibles on a slide. 



9. TETRASTICHODES SUSURRUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.10 mm. Short, robust, the abdomen globular, the propodeum short. 



Pale golden yellow, the wings hyaline, marked with dusky black as follows: — Two pairs 

 of transverse marginal dots on abdomen out from base, followed by two complete cross- 

 stripes (these thinning at meson), then a third thinner cross-stripe interrupted at the 

 meson (at distal three fourths); propodeum; median line of scutellum not very broadly but 

 uniformly; two subcontiguous wedgeshaped spots on cephalic half of scutum (reaching 

 from cephalic margin to about middle, narrowly separated along meson), from these meson 

 of scutum rather broadly (broader than meson of scutellum) to apex; apex (caudad) of each 

 parapside; tegulae and the axillae except caudo-mesal end. Propodeum yellow at the spiracle 

 and laterad of it, apparently noncarinate but with a carina laterad of spiracle. Antennae 

 dusky; scape short, compressed; pedicel much longer than any funicle joint; funicle joints 

 subequal, somewhat wider than long; club wider than the funicle, without a distinct terminal 

 spine. Mandibles tridentate. Fore wings broad. 



From one female captured by sweeping forest, April 12, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2554, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a 

 slide. 



Genus APEOSTOCETUS Girault. 



1. APROSTOCETUS KURANDENSIS (Girault). 

 This is a species of N eomphaloidella. 



2. APROSTOCETUS IMPERIALIS Girault. 



The type is a female on a tag together with a slide. A female, Gordonvale, Queensland, 

 forest, December 9, 1913. The club bears a distinct terminal spine. Mandibles bidentate, 

 the second tooth truncate. 



" One female, type locality, forest, December 4, 1913 (A.A.G.). The median groove 

 of scutum was almost obliterated, visible at distal third only." (A. P. Dodd.) 



3. APROSTOCETUS SEXGUTTATUS Girault. 

 Antea, p. 213, line 11, Epentasticlius flavella Girault is the species intended; line 8,. 

 1913 should read WIS. This species belongs to Epentastichus which see. 



