23(3 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



8. NEOTETRASTICHODES ELECTRA new species. 



Female: — Length, 2 mm. 



Black, the wings hyaline; ventral half of head, tegulse, scape except dorsad at tip, 

 postseutellum and abdomen golden yellow, the legs a little embrowned. Caudal coxa black. 

 Stigmal vein rather short. Abdomen dorsad black across base narrowly, the black acutely 

 produced caudad at meson; the tip black and between tip and base there are five complete 

 cross-stripes, the first three connected along meson by a rather broad longitudinal stripe. 

 Dorsum of abdomen scaly. A yellow spot at occipital margin of vertex against the eye, 

 laterad of lateral ocellus. Thorax rather coarsely scaly, a line of setigerous punctures along 

 lateral margin of scutum, the latter otherwise naked. A short sulcus at mesal base of 

 scutellum, the second lateral sulcus foveate, the surface like that of the scutum. Propodeum 

 scaly, moderate at the meson, without lateral carinas but with a median one and a short 

 carina directly from the spiracle. The short third club joint with a short, distinct spur. 

 Funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, the others each shortening, 3 oval, a little shorter 

 than the pedicel. Wings broad. 



From one female caught October 11, 1914 (II. Hacker). 



Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 



Type: No. HyS590, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; antenna on 

 a slide. 



Genus NEOMPHALOIDES Girault. 



This genus is the same as Ootetrasiiehella but the scutum bears a median groove and 

 the club is 3-jointed. 



1. NEOMPHALOIDES STYLATUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 2.20 mm. Abdomen conic-ovate, distad produced into a short 

 stylus, the ovipositor extruded a short distance beyond the stylus. Abdomen distinctly much 

 longer than the thorax. 



Black, shining, the wings hyaline, the scape, knees, tibiae and tarsi yellowish brown, 

 .also the venation. Antenna) long; f unifies 1 and 2 subequal. each about two and a third 

 times longer than wide and distinctly shorter than the long club, 3 a little shorter than 2, 

 distinctly longer than the pedicel. First two club joints plainly longer than wide, the third 

 somewhat shorter, with a distinct terminal nipple. Club as long as the scape. Mandibles 

 tri dentate, the two inner teeth together. Stigmal vein of moderate length. Second two 

 ring-joints very short. Thoracic sulci very distinct. Scutum with a row of seta? along lateral 

 margin, otherwise naked. Propodeum finely wrinkled, tricarinate, rather long, the lateral 

 carina forking at apex; an oblique ridge or carina running meso-cephalad from origin of 

 the fork of the lateral carina, but not quite complete at either end. Lateral margin of 

 propodeum carinated. Scutellum with a tinge of metallic green. Abdomen subpetiolate. 



Differs from the genotype in that the stylus of the abdomen is not half as long as in 

 that species. The latter is shorter at propodeal meson and has no lateral carina and nearly half 

 the body of its abdomen is red, the body shiny, the sculpture rather faint. Its other colors 

 are also much different. 



From one female caught in jungle, August 20, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2591, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a 

 slide. 



