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MEMO IMS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Male: — Somewhat smaller; the same but the dark areas on the cephalic part of the 
scutum usually black and nearly coalesced; the abdomen bears only five transverse stripes 
which lengthen (become thicker) caudad, the second concaved at the meson, the fifth twice 
longer than the fourth, none of the distal four stripes with parallel margins. (Types 
re-examined.) 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1169, Queensland Museum. 
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TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN FORMS OF TETRASTICHODES ASIIMEAD. 
Females. 
It is well to point out that there are two distinct types in Tetrastichodes, the one robust, 
the antenna) short, the abdomen short and globular, the propodeum short and usually non- 
carinate; the other more slender, the antenna) with, longer joints and slenderer club, the 
abdomen conic ovate, the propodeum long and with a distinct median carina. The former 
belong to the subgenus Zagravimosomoides Girault which I described as a genus in the Elacher- 
tini. However, its somewhat broken submarginal vein, the fine sculpture and the thoracic 
grooves serve to show its tme affinities. It seems entitled to generic rank but I do not know 
the characteristics of the genotype of Tetrastichodes , 
Yellow species. 
Scutum wholly black-brown. 
A dot on inner hind angles of parapsides, a spot at base of seutellum at meson, 
propodeum and segments 3-5 of abdomen brown or black-brown. Legs 
pale yellow. froggatti Ashmead. 
Scutum only partly blaek-browm or dusky. 
Funicle joints elongate (much longer than wide). 
Orange yellow, the abdomen lemon yellow' and with many obscure, narrow 
dusky cross-stripes; cephalic portion of scutum fuscous; scape and 
pedicel yellow at sides and beneath, the antenna? black; funicle joints 
subequal, twice the length of the pedicel or nearly; a fuscous spot at 
meson, base of seutellum; median carina on propodeum. Disk of 
propodeum on each side of meson, apex of parapsides and axilla) 
cephalad, fuscous. australica Girault. 
Funicle joints short, quadrate or wider than long. 
Abdomen with cross- stripes. 
Golden yellow; four cross-stripes on abdomen, the first three interrupted 
at meson, a dot on pronotum dorso-laterad, disk of propodeum, 
two wedge-shaped spots on cephalic scutum, another on each 
parapside, a round spot at centre of seutellum at base, black. 
Funicle joints all wider than long. Mneatus Girault. 
Yellow 7 ; six complete cross-stripes on abdomen; pronotum cephalad on 
each side of median line, propodeum, a large ovate spot in centre 
of seutellum, an ovate spot on each side (not upon) scutum at 
cephalic angle of each axilla and a smaller spot on pronotum 
caudo-laterad black; scutum stained cephalad on each side of 
meson, also each parapside and the vertex (more or less). 
Proximal club joint nearly half the club. fasciatus Girault. 
