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lemon yellow. Propodeum with an X-shaped median carina, the cephalic pair of arms longer 

 and curving mesad {i.e. convex, not concave) ; no true lateral carina, the surface scaly. Second 

 ring-joint very short. Flagellum dusky brownish. Funicle 1 plainly shorter than the club,, 

 plainly longer than wide, 3 subequal to the pedicel, somewhat longer' than wide. Club with a 

 small terminal nipple. Mandibles tridentate (at least one). Somewhat like Neomphaloidella 

 saltensis but the scutellum is not mostly black and so on. 



From one female caught at 1,000 feet in jungle, May 27, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Upper Tweed Eiver, New South Wales. 



Type : No. Hy £597, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 

 with slide type of Tetrastichodes susurrus Girault. 



11. EPITETRASTICHUS FILIFORMIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.65 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for two thirds the 

 length of the abdomen, the latter conical, a third longer than the rest of the body. Head longer 

 than wide, oval. 



Dark metallic green, the knees, tibiae and tarsi pale yellow, the wings hyaline. Pro- 

 podeum finely scaly, short at meson, there with a median carina, true lateral carinas absent but 

 a weak carina directly from the spiracle and adjoining a long-oval fovea mesad. Antennae 

 slender, filiform, the scape and funicle 1 elongate, the scape the longer of the two ; pedicel not 

 twice longer than wide at apex, less than half the length of funicle 1 which is subequal to the 

 club; funicle 3 over thrice longer than wide, not quite two thirds the length of 1, longer than 

 club 1 which is nearly twice longer than wide ; club with a minute terminal nipple. Mandibles 

 tridentate. Stigmal vein of moderate length. Scutum practically naked. 



Prom one female caught in forest (1,500 feet), May 17, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Upper Tweed Eiver, New South Wales. 



Type: No. Hy S598, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a 

 slide with slide type of Selitrichodella cometes Girault. 



12. EPITETRASTICHUS COBDENI (Girault). 



Tetrastichus cobdeni Girault. 



Much like bicolor. Propodeum scaly. Ocellar area black; postseutellum bright lemon 

 yellow. Tegulas yellow. Propodeum without true lateral carinas but a convex narrow carina 

 just mesad of spiracle, the median carina distinct, its proximal half narrowly prongshaped; a 

 line of punctures down lateral margin of scutum, the latter otherwise naked. Type re-examined. 



13. EPITETRASTICHUS DARWINI (Girault). 



Tetrastichus darivini Girault. 

 Median groove of scutum only at cephalic third. The club is long, cylindro-conic. 

 Funicle 3 a little the longest. Face only of pronotum blackish, not the narrow dorsum. Pro- 

 podeum with a median carina only, eoncolorous laterad and caudad of the spiracle. Scutum 

 naked or nearly so. Type re-examined. 



14. EPITETRASTICHUS MARGIVENTRIS (Girault). 



Tetrastichus margiventris Girault. 



Resembles somewhat Neomphaloidella westvooodi which has the abdomen similarly colored 

 but the antennas are different. Funicle 1 over four times longer than wide. Scutum naked. 

 Type re-examined. It was captured December 2, 1912. 



