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lemon yellow. Propodeum with an X-shaped median earina, the cephalic pair of arms longer 

 and curving mesad (i.e. convex, not concave) ; no true lateral carina, the surface scaly. Second 

 ring-joint very short. Flagellum dusky brownish. Funicle 1 plainly shorter than the club,. 

 plainly longer than wide, 3 subequal to the pedicel, somewhat longer' than wide. Club with a 

 small terminal nipple. Mandibles tridentate (at least one). Somewhat like N eomphaloidella 

 saltensis but the seutellum is not mostly black and so on. 



Prom one female caught at 1,000 feet in jungle, May 27, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Upper Tweed Eiver, New South Wales. 



Type: No. HyS597, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 

 with slide type of Tetrastichodes susurrus Girault. 



11. EPITETRASTICHUS FILIFORMIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.65 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for two thirds the 

 length of the abdomen, the latter conical, a third longer than the rest of the body. Head longer 

 than wide, oval. 



Dark metallic green, the knees, tibiae and tarsi pale yellow, the wings hyaline. Pro- 

 podeum finely scaly, short at meson, there with a median carina, true lateral carinse absent but 

 a weak carina directly from the spiracle and adjoining a long-oval fovea mesad. Antennae 

 slender, filiform, the scape and funicle 1 elongate, the scape the longer of the two; pedicel not 

 twice longer than wide at apex, less than half the length of funicle 1 which is subequal to the 

 club; funicle 3 over thrice longer than wide, not quite two thirds the length of 1, longer than 

 club 1 which is nearly twice longer than wide ; club with a minute terminal nipple. Mandibles 

 tridentate. Stigmal vein of moderate length. Scutum practically naked. 



From one female caught in forest (1,500 feet), May 17, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Upper Tweed Eiver, New South Wales. 



Type : No. Hy 2508, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag ; head on a 

 slide with slide type of Selitrichodella cometes Girault. 



12. EPITETRASTICHUS COBDENI (Girault). 



Tetrastichus cobdeni Girault. 



Much like bicolor. Propodeum scaly. Ocellar area black; postscutellum bright lemon 



yellow. Tegute yellow. Propodeum without true lateral carinas but a convex narrow carina 



just mesad of spiracle, the median carina distinct, its proximal half narrowly prongshaped; a 



line of punctures down lateral margin of scutum, the latter otherwise naked. Type re-examined. 



13. EPITETRASTICHUS DARWINI (Girault). 



Tetrastichus danvini Girault. 

 Median groove of scutum only at cephalic third. The club is long, cylindro-conic. 

 Funicle 3 a little the longest. Face only of pronotum blackish, not the narrow dorsum. Pro- 

 podeum with a median carina only, concolorous laterad and caudad of the spiracle. Scutum 

 naked or nearly so. Type re-examined. 



14. EPITETRASTICHUS MARGIVENTRIS (Girault). 



Tetrastichus margiventris Girault. 



Kesembles somewhat N eomphaloidella westwoodi which has the abdomen similarly colored 

 but the antennae are different. Funicle 1 over four times longer than wide. Scutum naked. 

 Type re-examined. It was captured December 2, 1912. 



