AUSTRALIAN HTMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA, IF.—GIEAULT. 225 



Genus OOTETEASTICHUS Perkins. 8 

 Head (cephalic aspect) longer than wide, the genal suture long, deep. 



1. OOTETRASTICHUS BEATUS Perkins. 



Unfortunately, the marginal spots on the abdomen of this species are not definitely 

 described. 7 The following apparent new varieties. Antea, p. 217, line 3, dots should read spots. 



A. OOTETRASTICHUS BEATUS ANCEPS new variety. Female. 



Golden yellow; quite as described for the typical form. The five marginal spots on 

 abdomen are round, rather large and extend from near base to distal two thirds. Markings 

 only slightly metallic. Characterized apparently by the rather large marginal spots on abdomen. 

 General color fades after death to pale yellow. 



From one female captured by sweeping in a weedy Chinese garden, November 3, 1912. 



Habitat : Proserpine, Queensland. No type. 



B. OOTETRASTICHUS BEATUS AFFINIS new variety of A. P. Dodd and A. A. Girault. 



Female: — Length, 1.60 mm. Pale lemon yellow and agreeing with Perkins's description 

 of beatus beatus except that the spots on the lateral margins of abdomen are not spots but 

 transverse dashes (except a dot at base; four transverse dashes). 



Described from one female captured by sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, 

 January 3, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. HyS563, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on 

 a slide. 



2. OOTETRASTICHUS LUSTRIS Girault. 



This is the genotype of Proceratoneura in the Ceratoneurini, described on a later page. 

 Antea, p. 218, line 7 of the diagnosis one should read are. 



3. OOTETRASTICHUS CONSIMHJS Girault. 

 A female, forest, type locality, April 9, 1914. The pronotum and propodeum have a 

 purplish tinge. First three stripes of abdomen more distinct than the fourth, the third stripe 

 a little distad of middle. The marginal black of abdomen is more or less broken. Propodeum 

 scaly, with a median carina but no true lateral ones. 



4. OOTETRASTICHUS SILVENSIS Girault. 



This belongs to Neotetrastichodes which see. 



5. OOTETRASTICHUS GUTTATUS Girault. 



A female from forest, type locality, August 13 and December 14, 1913. The markings 

 are dark metallic green. A dot on pronotum caudo-laterad. Propodeum on each side dusky. 

 Fifth marginal spot on abdomen much smaller than the others. Mandibles tridentate. Valves 

 of ovipositor shortly extruded. Funicles 2 and 3 subequal. Axilla? concolorous (soiled in the 

 type). Stigmal vein long; wings slender. The large oval fuscous spot in center of abdomen 

 at base absent (in the type due to debris). Allied with fasciativentris. Type re-examined. 



G The species fasciativentris is common at Gordonvale, Queensland, from where it was described from specimens 

 captured in December, 1912. The type is on a tag and slide. 



7 " Four or five pairs of marginal spots" which may mean four or five pairs (8-10) on each margin (16-20) or 

 four or five on each side (8-10). I have taken it to mean four or five along each margin, since really paired 

 marginal markings are rare (an example is Grotiusiella multiguttata described in part XIV). Also, the spots may be- 

 round, square, or and so forth. 

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