230 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



From one female captured by sweeping forest, March 30, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2574, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag ; head on sj> 

 slide. 



A female taken in forest, same locality, February 16, 1912 (A. M. Lea and A.A.G.) 

 had no distinct stripes on abdomen but two stripes within the margined part were indicated 

 from each side; the funicle and club were yellow not blackish. This new variety may take the- 

 name of perfecta. No type. 



Both eleganta and radius bear a spot on latero-caudal angle of pronotum just cephalad 

 of the green on the parapside. Types of both species compared. 



7. TRICHAPOROIDELLA MAUPAUSSANTI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.40 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the legs, ventral third of head, center of 

 propleurum, tegute and abdomen except at distal third and lateral margins obscurely all 

 round, dorsad, dull golden yellow; three dusky stripes on abdomen dorsad across the yellow 

 proximal portion. Scape yellow except at tip above, the rest of antennae fuscous. Pedicel 

 a little shorter than funicle 3, funicle 1 shorter than the club, nearly thrice longer than wide,, 

 longest. Pedicel long. Postscutellum brownish. Propodeum with median carina and no 

 others, scaly. Scutum naked. Color of abdomen darkens rapidly after drying. Surface of 

 propodeum not as rough as in subcenea whose scutum is also naked. 



From one female caught in forest, January 23, 1913. 



Habitat : Townsville, Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2575, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



Dedicated to Guy de Maupaussant. 



8. TRICHAPOROIDELLA PESSULUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.83 mm. 



Very similar to the preceding but all of head except vertex and the sides and venter- 

 of thorax are golden yellow, the body is stouter and the three cross-stripes on abdomen are- 

 interrupted at meson, the third longest (cephalo-caudad) ; the lateral margin of abdomen is 

 more distinctly margined dorsad. Postscutellum concolorous. 



From one female caught January 23, 1913 sweeping forest. 



Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2576, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type- 

 of preceding species. 



Genus TETEASTTCHOMOEPHA Girault. 

 1. TETRASTICHOMORPHA FLAVA Girault. 



This species differs in color from Neotrichaporoides uniguttatus as described. The- 

 fore wing is large, the marginal vein long, much longer than the submarginal, the stiginal 

 short. A dot at extreme caudo-lateral angle of the pronotum (flava only). There is a median 

 carina on the propodeum in both species and no other carina?; both are large yet slender. 

 Types re-examined. 



The species flava measures 2.20 mm. Propodeal spiracle round. Funicle and club- 

 black; wings hyaline; tip of valves of ovipositor black; club terminating in a nipple. The- 

 type female was taken in forest, April 5, 1913. 



