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Described from one female specimen remounted in xylol 

 balsam from a card. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Mittagong (A. M. Lea). 

 Type. — I. 1230, South Australian Museum. 



QuADRASTiCHODES, uew gen. 



9 • Agreeing with Tetrasfichodes, Ashmead, but the 

 antennae 13-jointed, with four narrow ring-joints, -4 funicle- 

 joints, and a 3-jointed club, whose distal-joint is a jointlike 

 terminal cone like a thick spine but a true joint : scape 

 cylindrical oval, unusually thickened and armed with a coarse 

 scaly sculpture : pedicel also similarly sculptured. Mandibles 

 tridentate. Scutellum with four deep grooves, the propodeum 

 with a distinct median carina, laterad of the spiracle with 

 sparse thimble punctures. Postmarginal vein three-fourths 

 the length of the stigmal. Wings hyaline, ample, the mar- 

 ginal vein long. 



c . Not known. 



Type. — The following species. 



QUADEASTICHODES CYANEIVIRIDIS . new Sp. 



9. Brilliant, shinino-, metallic blue-o-reen with the 

 velvety sculpture of TetrasficJius, including the disk of the 

 propodeum. Legs straw-yellow, the coxae metallic like the 

 body. Abdomen polygonally sculptured, the polygons regular 

 hexagons. Femora darkened proximad. Pedicel as long as 

 the first funicle- joint, which is longest of the funicle, much 

 longer (about "2^ times) than wide, the others shortening. 

 Proximal club-joint subequal to the distal funicle-joint, which 

 is somewhat longer than wide. Length, 2'35 mm. 



From two females on cards. 



Hab. — South Australia: Port Lincoln (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 1231, South Australian Museum. The above 

 specimens (2 cards, 1 pin) and a slide bearing the head. 



Teteastichus, Haliday. 

 Teteastichus mittagongexsis, new sp. 



9 . Like que ensland ensis , but the propodeal spiracle 

 laterad of the lateral carina and the propodeum is longer. The 

 scape is brown, coxae and femora concolorous with the body. 

 Second ring- joint very short, the third club- joint spined at 

 apex. Length, 2 mm. 



c . L'nknown. 



Described from one female. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Mittagong (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 1232, South Australian Museum. The above 

 specimen with the head on a slide. 



