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Pedicel distinctly longer than funicle 1 which is subquadrate, longer than 2 which is narrower 

 and subquadrate, 3 like 2 but shorter, hence wider than long. Mandibles with three acute teeth. 

 Stigmal vein shorter than with morum which this species resembles in form. 



This species resembles closely flaviscutellum Girault but the fore wings are narrower, the- 

 base of the abdomen yellowish, the cephalic margin of scutum not yellow, the hind femur not 

 dusky along proximal half and the abdomen is rounded, not cylindrical (though obtuse at apex) 

 as in flaviscutellum. 



From one female captured in forest, December 24, 1912. 



Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Type: No. HyS.584, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



Genus NEOTETEASTICHODES G-irault. 



Antea, p. 228, line 2, Girault should read Ashmead; line 3, the word male should precede- 

 the word female. 



1. NEOTETRASTICHODES FLAVUS Girault. 



Length of female, 1.80 mm.; of male, 1.30 mm. The types were captured by sweeping 

 grass in forest, April 30, 1912. The types are one pair on a slide. 



2. NEOTETRASTICHODES SILVENSIS (Girault). 



Removed from Ootetrastichus. Type re-examined. The following descriptive notes from 

 a second female from the type locality, forest, April 3, 1914 are correct: — 



Length, 1.30 mm. 



.ZEneous green, the wings hyaline, the scape, legs except the eoncolorous hind coxa and 

 somewhat over proximal third of abdomen creamy white; rest of abdomen dark metallic purple. 

 Lateral margin of abdomen at base for a short distance metallic purple; proximal margin of 

 purple of abdomen (dorsal aspect) rather deeply concaved (so that at the margins, the purple 

 proceeds nearer to base than at center). Mandibles tridentate, the third tooth broad, obliquely 

 truncate. Funicle 1 shorter than the club, longest, about two and a fourth times longer than its 

 greatest width, 2 somewhat shorter than it, 3 a fourth shorter than 1, slightly longer than the 

 pedicel. Cheeks short. Abdomen conic-ovate, somewhat longer than the thorax. Propodeum 

 with a distinct median carina and what appears to be two lateral carina? running to base of 

 caudal coxa from each side of the spiracle and not side by side (probably due to an impression 

 due to drying, thus giving the appearance of two carina?) . Propodeum finely reticulated; rest 

 of thorax with the usual very fine longitudinal sheening of the group. Abdomen pointed at tip. 

 Club with a very short nipple, the three joints not much unequal. Scape normal. 



3. NEOTETRASTICHODES MAXIMUS new species of A. P. Dodd and A. A. Girault. 



Female: — Length, 2.30 mm. 



Very dark metallic blue, the coxa? and femora eoncolorous; rest of legs and antennal 

 scape golden yellow, rest of antenna? black. Fore wings hyaline. Stigmal vein with a distinct 

 knob, postmarginal vein two thirds length of stigmal. Abdomen short and stout, convex above,, 

 straight beneath. Scutum and scutellum naked. Propodeum almost smooth, glabrous, not very 

 short, with a median carina. Scape scarcely compressed; pedicel not elongate, subequal ta 

 funicle joint 2, 1 a little larger than 2, 3 a little smaller ; club not much shorter than the funicle, 

 the joints about subequal; ring-joints large and distinct. 



From one female caught by sweeping in jungle, August 7, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. HyS585, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on a 

 slide. 



