242 MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



18. EPITETRASTICHUS CRESSONI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.55 min. 



Deep orange yellow, the abdomen with three dusky cross-stripes within proximal half, 

 the first some little distance out from base, the distal one about across the middle. Funicle and 

 club black. Tip of scape and dorsal pedicel dusky. Wings hyaline. Tip of valves of ovipositor, 

 center of pronotum (including the neck), tegulse and a minute dot at extreme latero-caudal 

 angle of pronotum, dusky blackish. Mandibles tridentate. Pedicel rather long, subequal to 

 funicle 3 which is distinctly longer than wide. Funicle 1 about one and a half times longer than 

 wide, somewhat longer than the pedicel, subequal to 2, shorter than the club whose third joint 

 is shortest and with a terminal spine. Club 1 a little shorter than funicle 3. Postscutellum 

 lemon yellow. Propodeum scaly, without lateral carina), the median present, complete, not long. 



Prom one female captured in forest, May 20, 19 14. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2603, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a slide. 



Named for Ezra Townsend Cresson. 



19. EPITETRASTICHUS BURMEISTERI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1 mm. 



Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline, the legs (except proximal half of coxa?), a little 

 over proximal half of abdomen and the antennas golden yellow, the yellow of abdomen dorsad 

 with three purple cross-stripes, the proximal one fainter. Funicle joints subequal, subglobular, 

 a little wider than long, shorter than the pedicel; club large, ovate, its third joiut short, wider 

 than long, shorter than the stout terminal spine. Third tooth of mandible much shorter, obliquely 

 truncate, the outer two rather long, acute. Tegula golden yellow. Propodeum short at the 

 meson (carina) not seen). Stigmal vein short. Posterior wing with six lines of discal cilia where 

 widest. Distal three ring-joints very short. 



From one female labelled " Pt. Darwin, 10-10-13. Forest. G. F. Hill." 

 . Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 



Type: No. Hy 2604, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on 

 a slide. 



Dedicated to Hermann B'urmeister. 



Genus QUADRASTICHUS Girault. 

 1. QUADRASTICHUS SANNIO Girault. 



This species belongs to the genus Paraproslocetus which see. 



2. QUADRASTICHUS FUSCUS (Girault). 

 Length. 0.70 mm. Antea, under this species, line 4, ring-joints should be in the singular 

 number. The type is on a slide and was collected from a window, March 20, 1913. The original 

 description is in error in regard to funicle 3 which is also ring-like but larger than 2. 



Genus XEOMPHALOIDELLA Girault. 

 1. NEOMPHALOIDELLA KURANDENSIS (Girault). 



From Aprjostocetus. The types are five females on a card and a slide with appendages. 

 They were reared from braconid cocoons. Head with scattered thimble punctures. In the male, 

 the femora are paler, the antenna' witli four funicle, two club joints. The female measures 

 2 mm. 



Propodeum of moderate length, the lateral carina forked at apex, the fork solid. The 

 punctures of head are on the vertex and dorsal half of face. At the ventral end of each 



