AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIBAULT. 239 



being erroneous; and scarcely more than half as long as 1, the club no longer than funicle 

 1, the first two club joints being wider than long). Propodeum with a weak curved carina 

 mesad of the spiracle. Compared with type of longfelloivi. 



Habitat: Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2594, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag ; head on a 

 ■slide. 



8. EPITETRASTICHUS FLAVISCAPUS new species of A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 1.65 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the coxse and femora concolorous, the tibiaa, tarsi and antennal 

 scape, golden yellow, rest of antennas black. Wings hyaline. Scutum and scutellum naked. 

 Propodeum rather long, coarsely scaly, with distinct median and lateral carina?. Abdomen 

 conic-ovate, no longer than the thorax. Pedicel somewhat shorter than the first funicle joint; 

 funicle joints subequal, cylindrical ovate, half longer than wide. Club as large as two pre- 

 ceding joints united, with a short terminal nipple; last three ring-joints very small. 



From one female captured in jungle, January 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2595, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 

 on a slide. 



9. EPITETRASTICHUS HETiERICOS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.80 mm. 



Very similar to speciosissimus but differing in that the large conical marking of the 

 scutum is regular (not rather suddenly narrowed at a little over distal half of scutum) and 

 extends nearly to apex of scutellum, the pronotum is black except laterad and the caudal margin 

 very narrowly (only face of pronotum is black in the other species, not as originally described), 

 the hind femur centrally is dark brown, the occiput is all black except ventral border, the 

 serobes are black and the hind coxae exteriorly, the third marginal spot on the abdomen is 

 smaller (the first spots joined across meson in both species and situate at base), also each of the 

 following spots; and the metapleurum and caudal mesopleurum are black (not so in the other 

 species, contrary to former statements). Antennae dusky black except proximal two thirds of 

 scape. The propodeum is a little visible at meson from above, bears a very short complete 

 median carina but no true lateral ones. The cephalic, subquadrate black area on each axilla is 

 decidedly longer in this species extending nearly to apex from cephalic margin, longer than wide 

 (in the genotype nearly square and extending slightly caudad of middle). Stripe 6 of abdomen 

 (just before apex) is merely broadly joined to 5 along the meson. A row of faint punctures 

 along lateral margin of scutum in both species. Funicle 3 a little longer than wide. Mandibles 

 tridentate, the teeth obtuse. 



From one female caught in forest, August 13, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2596, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of 

 speciosissimus, the head on a slide. The female type of the genotype is on a tag, the head on a 

 slide. 



10. EPITETRASTICHUS X-CARINATUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.50 mm. 



Orange yellow, the distal third of scutum (or the part not black), scutellum between the 

 lateral grooves, legs and scape pale lemon yellow; a rounded orange yellow area in center of 

 scutellum. The following parts black: Head, prothorax, cephalic two thirds of scutum, pro- 

 podeum except broadly along the meson and lateral margins of abdomen rather broadly from 

 base to distal three fourths; also tip of abdomen and apex of each parapside. Postscutellum 



