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Pedicel slender; funicle 1 little longer than pedicel, fully three times as long as wide; 2 

 ■one half the length of 1, 3 slightly shorter than 2 ; club somewhat shorter than funicle 1 ; 

 ring-joints small about subequal. Notes from the following specimens: 



. A female captured from a window at Mirani (Mackay), October, 1911. The abdomen 

 in this last specimen was suffused with brown; median groove of scutum complete, very 

 narrow; club pale. Compared with type. A female at Ayr, Queensland, forest, November 

 •6, 1912. One female, Cooktown, window, February, 1912. 



5. EPITETRASTICHUS VARICOLOR new species of A. P. Dodd. 

 Female: — Length, 1.75 mm. 



Golden yellow; occiput, parapsidal furrows, grooves of scutellum and propodeum dark 

 brownish; abdomen nearly wholly dusky dorsad; legs and antennal scape pale yellow, rest 

 •of antennas black. Body slender, the abdomen slender, pointed conic-ovate. Median groove 

 •of scutum faint but complete. Propodeum rather short, scaly, with a pair of median carinas. 

 Wings hyaline. Flagellum very long and slender, funicle 1 somewhat longest of the funicle, 

 twice as long as pedicel, club somewhat longer than any of the funicle joints, the second 

 joint a little longer than the first, the third small. 



From one female caught by sweeping in forest, June 13, 1912 (A.A.G.). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy%853. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a 

 ■slide. 



' ' This species is very similar to Aprostocerella kelloggi Girault but has only a little 

 blackish on cephalic scutum at cephalic margin centrally, the propodeum is wholly black 

 (yellow laterad of spiracle in Tcelloggi) and somewhat longer at the meson and the pronotum 

 is broadly black across the meson nearly to the lateral margins. Only the face of pronotum 

 is black in TceUoggi and in this last species the cephalic half of scutum is blackish except along 

 median line at lateral margins. Types compared. " (A. A. Girault.) 



6. EPITETRASTICHUS BICOLOR (Girault). 



Tetrasticlms bicolor Girault in an tea. 

 Female : — Length, ] .65 mm. 



Black; lower part of face, an area at insertion of wings, postscutellum, basal third 

 ■or more of abdomen, legs (except base of hind coxae) and antennal scape golden yellow; pedicel 

 dusky, flagellum fuscous; rest of abdomen brownish with darker cross-stripes. Propodeum 

 with a median carina. Median groove of scutum not very distinct. Abdomen conic-ovate, 

 •somewhat wider and longer than thorax. Funicle joints cylindrical ovate, 1 as long as pedicel 

 and distinctly longer than wide, 3 a little shorter than 1, the first club joint as long as the 

 other two combined. Fore wings broad, hyaline. 



From one female captured by sweeping in strip of jungle, April 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd), 

 type locality. 



7. EPITETRASTICHUS LONGICLAVUS new species of A. P. Dodd. 

 Female .-—Length, 1.60 mm. 



Agreeing with longfelloivi Girault but differing as follows: All legs and antennal 

 scape and pedicel intense lemon yellow; abdomen almost wholly dark brown, slightly suffused 

 with metallic, funicle 3 only slightly shorter than 1 and a little longer than the pedicel, club 

 much longer than funicle 1, the first two club joints distinctly longer than wide (in longfellowi, 

 the second funicle joint is subequal to the pedicel, 3 distinctly shorter, the original description 



