7 — 



greenish yellow and the abdomen is less regularly 

 striped, the stripes denser and confluent at the meson, 

 often broadly so (proximad), the central two joined 

 only along the median line but the following two 

 similarly joined (in addition) near the lateral margin; 

 laterad, the stripes turn cephalad like a foot. Moreover, 

 the legs are pallid, the tarsi subfuscous, the coxae 

 touched with more or less metallic green. Another 

 difference is that there is a blackish stripe across the 

 cheek below the eye in this species (a broken second 

 one ventrad) while in fascialus, if present, the line 

 is broader. Base of femora on sides, metallic green. 

 Cephalic ocellus at the base of an arrow-shaped 

 metallic green spot. In the face, beside each eye, a 

 large subrectangular area enclosed by metallic green. 

 Scape strijDed obliquely with black. Tips of tibiae 

 subfuscous. 



(From two specimens, similarly enlarged.) 



Male: Not known. 



Described from two female specimens reared from 

 a lot of miscellaneous galls from forest trees, Nelson, 

 N. Q., December 12, 1912 (Alan P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Australia-Nelson (Cairns), Queens- 

 land. 



Types: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 

 the above specimens mounted together on a slide of 

 xylol-balsam. 



3. Gyrolasella viridilineata (Froggatt). 



In his Australian Insects (Sydney, 1907, p. 79, 

 fig. 48) Froggatt gives a figure of an obvious Eulophid 

 which he has described elsewhere in the Pteromaline 

 genus Coelocyba. The species was reared from galls. 

 From what I can make of the figm-e, the species 

 belongs here, though the submarginal vein is figured 

 as unbroken. It is unfortunate that this species has 

 been described in an agricultural journal. 



4. Gyrolasella sjxciosissima new species. 

 Female. ' 



Like consobrinus but the postscutellum with more 

 metallic green (do\^^l all of the meson), the fore wing 

 with a small, subcresoentic, fuscous dash from the 

 apex of the stigmal vein and the pattern of the ab- 

 dominal bands is different in the first place, laterad 

 they tm'n caudad into a thicker footlike projection; 

 the fifth and sixth lines are not quite joined laterad, 

 though a projection is sent back from six; distad of 

 the sixth line, across the meson is a sub-dunibbell- 

 shaped line not present in consohrinus since in that 

 species line six sends back a longitudinal line from 

 each side of the meson; also, here, line 7 is complete 

 but in consohrinus consists merely of two round dots 

 at the meson and a black area at each lateral margin. 

 There is a small, cuneate, metallic green area on the 

 vertex near the occipital margin and meso-caudad 

 of each eye. 



(From one specimen, similarly enlarged.) 



Male: Apparently the same but nearly a half 

 smaller. 



Described from a single pair captured by sweeping 

 forest gro'wths along the top of the second coast 

 range of mountains just south-west of Nelson, N. Q., 

 May 28, 1912 (about 1500 feet). 



Habitat: Australia-Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 



Types: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 

 the above puir mounted together on a slide. 



Genus TctrasUchus Halidav. 



1. Tetrastichus kurandansis new species. 

 Female: Length, 2 mm. 



Bright dark metallic green-blue ; tibiae and tarsi 

 straw yellow, pale, the femora more or less fuscous, 

 the coxae concolorous with the body; scape l)rown, 

 the pedicel dark fuscous, rest of antennae black; 

 venation fulvous, the wings hyaline. Body with very 

 fine sagittate reticulation which gives a scaly or 

 velvety appearance ; second segment of abdomen 

 smooth and shining. Genae long, the genal sulcus 

 ong, very distinct, running from apex of the eye. 

 Head with scattered thimble-punctures. Scutellum 

 with four longitudinal sulci. Propodeum shagreened, 

 with median and lateral carinae, the spiracle large, 

 elliptical. Antennae 9-jointed, one ring-joint, the 

 three funicle joints long, each t\\ice or more the 

 length of the pedicel, the first somewhat the longest; 

 distal or third club joint terminating in a spur. Ab- 

 domen conic-ovate. 



(From 8 specimens, similarly magnified.) 



Male: Length, 1,75 mm. 



The same but the femora paler, the antennae with 

 four funicle and two club joints, the abdomen de- 

 pressed and oval. 



(From 2 specimens.) 



Described from two male and eight female speci- 

 mens kindly given to me by Mr. F. P. Dodd of Kuranda 

 mounted on cards one of which was labelled ,, Kuranda" 

 and the other ,,Spin cocoon mass like a spider's 

 eggbag". To the latter was attached a large whitish, 

 cotton-like mass of cocoons, evidently those of some 

 lepidoptera-infesting Braconid, the Tetrastichine a 

 hyperparasite. 



Habitat: Australia-Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 

 five females on a single card plus a slide of xylol- 

 balsam bearing female head, antennae, fore \ving 

 and posterior legs. 



2. Tetrastichus queenslandensis new species. 

 Female: Length, 2,25 mm. 



The same as kurandensis but the general body 

 coloration is dark metallic aeneous green ; the sculptiu?e 

 of the mesonotum is finer in g ain, the sagittate areas 

 obscure, the very fine line appearing more like longi- 

 tudinal striation bvit still with the velvety effect; the 

 scutum is longer, the propodeum much shorter, its 

 median carina very short but complete, the sphacles 

 mesad of the la.teral carinae (just laterad of them in 

 kurandensis) ; the disk of the propodeum is smoother, 

 polj'gonally reticulated. Scape black. Vertex very 

 thin. Tibiae and tarsi white, the femora duskj', the 

 coxae concolorous with the body. Other-nise much 

 like kurandensis. 



(From two specimens, the same magnification.) 



Described from two females on cards in the 

 Queensland Museum at Brisbane labelled ,,Bred out 

 of Brachyschelid gall. Nr. 16". 



Habitat: Austraha — Queensland (Brisbane?). 



Types: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 



