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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Male: — The same or nearly. 
Described from one male and two females captured by sweeping in the forest along the 
banks of Cape River, December 26, 1913. 
Habitat: Capevilie (Pentland), Queensland. 
Types: No. Hy 1768, Queensland Museum, the above specimens on a slide. 
4. TETRASTICHODES AUSTRALICUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.15 mm. 
Orange yellow, the abdomen lemon yellow and transversely striped with many obscure 
round dusky stripes; wings hyaline; legs lemon yellow; cephalic portion of scutum deep fuscous, 
the propodeum lemon yellow. Scape and pedicel yellow at sides and beneath, the rest of the 
antenna black, excepting the ring-joints; funicle and club joints elongate, those of the former 
subequal, twice the length of the pedicel nearly, the club joints shortening in succession, the 
first a fourth shorter than one of the funicle joints, the last no longer than the pedicel yet 
terminating in a long, stout spine-like process which is as long as the first club joint. Pedicel 
short. Mandibles tridentate. A fuscous spot at base of scutellum at meson; median carina of 
propodeum forked just before apex, the disk on each side of it fuscous. Apex of each parapside 
and axilla (cephalad) fuscous. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from a single female captured by sweeping forest growth along a roadside, 
February 18, 1913. The peculiar antenna* are unique for the genus. 
Habitat: Ripple Creek (Ingham), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1769, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
5. TETRASTICHODES MARGISCUTUM new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.55 mm. Short and robust, the abdomen almost round from lateral 
aspect. 
Chocolate brown, the legs except the coxed and hind femora; sides of pronotum, teguke, 
sides of scutum narrowly and each side of the grooves of scutellum, pale yellow T or white. 
Thorax microscopically sheened or satiny ; non -metallic. Wings very broad, hyaline. Antennae 
pale brown, the scape compressed, the pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints, the 
third joint of the funicle transversly cup-shaped, the other two subequal and about twice 
longer but still wider than long. Mandibles tridentate. Head pale yellow or white. 
Male: — The same but smaller and the incisions of abdominal segments pale and some- 
times, if not usually, conspicuous. 
Described from many specimens of both sexes reared from a gall on the foliage of 
Eucalyptus in forest, September 18, 1912. Also reared in large numbers from a tuber -like 
gall on Eucalyptus , September 2, 1913 (E. J. Girault). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hyl770, Queensland Museum, one male, one female together on a tag, two 
female heads on a slide. 
