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A. A. Girault: 



Some Chalcidoid Hymenoptera from 

 North Queensland. 



A. A. Girault. 



Eulophidae. 

 Tetrastichini. 



Eulophotetrastichus new genus. 



Fe male: Like Tetrastichus Haliday but the mesonotum with 

 three grooved lines, the lateral ones near the parapsidal furrows 

 which are very deep, the antennae with three ring-joints ; the tibial 

 spur of hind legs stout and the ovipositor markedly exserted for 

 a fourth the length of the abdomen. Mandibles tridentate. Scu- 

 tellum with a cross-sulcus before apex and which unites with the 

 mesal two longitudinal grooves. Hind tibial spurs single. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Eulophotetrastichus io new species. 



Female: Length, 1,80 mm, excluding the ovipositor. 



Shining black, the wings hyaline, the scutellum and base of 

 scutum contrasting orange yellow, the postscutellum, abdomen 

 and legs (except the base of the coxal) lemon yellow, the abdomen 

 conspicuously edged with black along each side from base to apex 

 (dorsal and ventral aspects) , leaving the meson of the dorsum rather 

 broadly yellow (but most of interior of the venter); extreme tip 

 of abdomen and the valves of the ovipositor black. Scape and pedicel 

 white the latter suffused, with dusky. Sculpture as in Tetrastichus, 

 the propodeum densely, minutely scaly, with a short but stout 

 median carina, broad at base tapering to apex, thus obtriangular. 

 Joint 1 of funicle longest, equal, or nearly, to distal two joints 

 of the club, the third funicle joint much longer than the pedicel 

 and the first club joint. Distal club joint with a nipple. 



From one specimen, 2 / 3 -inch objective, 1-inch optic, Bausch 

 and Lomb.*) 



Male: Unknown. 



Described from a single female specimen captured by sweeping 

 foliage along the edge of jungle, May 17. 1913. 



H abitat: Australia — Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above spe- 

 cimen on a tag and a slide with the head. 



*) All descriptions following made with the some magnification. 



