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4. NEOTETRASTICHODES ROBUSTUS new species of A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 2.10 mm. Eobust. 



Dark metallic green, the coxae concolorous, the rest of legs and antennal scape bright 

 golden yellow; pedicel and ring- joints brownish, rest of antennae black. Wings stained 

 yellowish. Thorax with scattered bristles. Propodeum rather short and broad, with a median 

 carina. Abdomen conic-ovate, straight above, convex beneath. Scape slender, normal; pedicel 

 elongate ; f nnicle 1 distinctly longer than pedicel, nearly four times as long as wide, 2 no longer 

 than the pedicel, 3 shorter; club no longer than funicle 1, with a short terminal nipple; ring- 

 joints not large. 



From one female taken from a window, Cooktown, February 3, 1912 (A.A.G.). 



Habitat: Cooktown, Ayr, Ingham and Herberton, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2586, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the Cooktown specimen on a tag, the 

 head on a slide. 



Also a female was taken from a window, Ayr, November 7, 1912 ; one from a window, 

 Ingham, February 16, 1913; and another from a window, Herberton, December 28, 1913 

 (A.A.G.). 



5. NEOTETRASTICHODES MERIDIALIS new species of A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 1.65 mm. 



Very similar to robustus Dodd but smaller, the hind coxae golden yellow, the ftagellum 

 wholly yellow-brown; wings hyaline; propodeum not short; pedicel as long as the elongate first 

 funicle joint ; club longer than funicle 1. 



From one female from a window of a wool-store, October 3, 1911 (A. A. Girault). 



Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2587, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a slide. 



6. NEOTETRASTICHODES MERIDIANUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.40 mm. 



Similar to maximus Dodd and Girault and ceneus Girault differing from the former in 

 not being very dark, black or nearly, but dark metallic green like a>neus ; also the fore wings 

 are smaller, the antennae dusky yellowish not black (except scape) and they are less robust. The 

 tibiae are all straw yellow, the femora concolorous. Differs from ceneus in having the femora 

 concolorous and the pedicel somewhat less elongate. The pronotum is long, the upper thorax 

 naked in all three species. 



From two females on a card labelled " No. 27, Nat. Mus., Victoria. From galls on gum. 

 11.94." 



Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. 



Type: No. Hy2588, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the two specimens on a card, a head 

 on a slide. 



7. NEOTETRASTICHODES PERKINSI new species. 



Female: — Length, about 1.15 mm. 



Pale golden yellow, the wings hyaline, the body marked with small black spots as 

 follows: Three marginal spots (wider than long) on proximal half of abdomen and a minute 

 dot caudad of the third; a longer than wide, small spot on pronotum caudo-laterad, one just 

 mesad of tegula and one on lateral propodeum, the three in a line caudo-cephalad but the line 

 obliqued a little caudo-mesad. Antennae as in Ootetrastichus beatus Perkins. First and fourth 

 ring-joints large, the inner two transverse-linear. Form like Ootetrastichus. Pedicel subequal 

 to funicle 3, club 1 longest. Funicle 3 much longer than wide. Mandibles tridentate. Tip of 

 valves of ovipositor black. 



From one female taken by sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, January 3, 1913 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2589, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



