1913] Girault: Chalcidoid Hymenoptera from Australia 
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Habitat: Australia — 'Nelson, Queensland. 
Types: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above speci- 
mens together on a slide. 
Trichaporoides Girault. 
1. Trichoparoides flavus new species. 
$ : Length, 2 mm. 
Differs from fasciativentris in having four abdominal stripes, in lacking 
the metallic coloration, in having the pedicel shorter, plainly shorter than 
the distal funicle joint, in having the ovipositor plainly but shortly pro- 
jected and in being brownish yellow, the thorax obscurely dusky, more 
especially at cephalic margin of scutum centrally; antennae dusky. 
From one specimen, similarly magnified. 
<? : Not known. 
Described from a single female captured at Babinda, Q., Octo- 
ber 28, 1911 by sweeping foliage below a clearing at foot of moun- 
tain (jungle). 
Habitat: Australia — -Babinda, Queensland. 
Type: In the Queensland, Museum, Brisbane, the above fe- 
male on a slide. 
Epitetrastichus new genus. 
Type: Epitetrastichus speciosissimus n.sp. 
1. Epitetrastichus speciosissimus new species. 
$ : Length, 1.90 mm. Robust. 
Golden yellow, characteristically marked with black as follows: The 
scutum with a large obconical black area from cephalic margin to proxi- 
mal third of scutellum where its obtuse apex ends, the marking leaving 
the lateral margins of the scutum broadly yellow; most of interior of each 
axilla, a triangular spot at cephalo-mesal margin of each parapside, the 
pronotum laterally, the metathorax and propodeum, much of mesopleurum 
and sides of propodeum, distal two tarsal joints and six broad stripes across 
the abdomen, each with a large, roundish yellow spot centrally on each 
side, forming a longitudinal line of large spots down each side of the ab- 
domen (from the third segment, the first cross band of black being narrow 
or rather the spots confluent), those of the fifth stripe most clearly de- 
limited, largest and quadrate; in the sixth stripe, the spot is small and 
joined laterally to the yellow of the body; tip of abdomen black; also upper 
half of occiput, center of vertex nearly to eyes and less so, the scrobicular 
cavity. Legs concolorous with general body color. Antennae dusky yel- 
low. Median groove of scutum fine. Wings hyaline, the stigmal vein 
long. First funicle joint longer than the pedicel, the third shorter than 
it. 
From one specimen, similarly magnified. 
d : Not known. 
