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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Dark metallic purple; abdomen, knees, tibia) and tarsi pale lemon yellow; abdomen 
margined down each side rather broadly nearly to tip with purple and crossed 
on the distal half by thin faint purplish stripes. Joints 2 and 3 of funicle 
subequal, each distinctly longer than the first. margiventris Girault. 
The same; hind margin of pronotum, head, a large spot near lateral margin on 
pronotum, propleura?, inner and cephalic margins of axilla?, abdomen at base 
on each side and a stripe just before tip, lemon yellow. pur pursue Girault. 
Dark metallic purple; a large round yellow spot centrally at base of abdomen dorsad; 
venter of abdomen and legs lemon yellow; pedicel long, joint 3 of funicle 
shortest. wiperialis Girault. 
Dark metallic green, the head yellow, the legs white except coxa); pedicel subequal 
to joint 2 of funicle. flcivicaput Girault. 
Black species. 
Abdomen brownish, lemon yellow at base, the legs and inner margins of parapsides, 
yellow; funicle joints subquadrate, 1 a little the longest, slightly shorter than the 
pedicel. nigrithorax Girault. 
Greenish, brownish or golden yellow species. 
Lemon yellow, the antennae and legs concolorous ; two cross-stripes of fuscous on abdomen 
just at middle, the first widely interrupted at middle; a long dusky spot down 
eepkalo-mesal side of each axilla; funicle joints all a little longer than wide, shorter 
than the elongate pedicel. flavus Girault. 
Golden yollow; the same but there is a line of three rather large dots along each side of 
abdomen at proximal half and a fuscous dot on pronotum at latero-caudal angle. 
Pedicel not elongate, longer than the subquadrate funicle joints. 
sexguttatus Girault. 
Intense greenish yellow, non-metallic and immaculate; funicle joints long, 2 a little the 
longest, 1 subequal to the rather long pedicel which is black above at base; a dark 
area on abdomen just before tip. viruUflavus Girault. 
Yellowish brown; pronotum, cephalic part of scutum and its median sulcus, inner sides of 
parapsides, propodeum, postscut ellum and three cross-stripes on abdomen just distad 
of middle, blackish; joints 2 and 3 of funicle longest, 1 over twice longer than wide. 
obscurus Girault. 
(See descriptions of gobius and pomosus.) 
Genus OOTETRASTICHUS Perkins. 
Synonym : Trichaporoides Girault. 
The original description of this genus is not very clear but the elongated funicle joints 
and the long 2-jointed club are characteristic and I have very little doubt but that I have 
correctly described the genus under the name of Trichap oroides which is thus a true synonym. 
The antenna) show four ring- joints. 
1. OOTETRASTICHUS BEATUS Perkins. Genotype. 
Ootetrastichus beatus Perkins, 1905, pp. 263-265, pi. xx., fig. 8. 
Ootetrastichus beatus Perkins, 1912, pp. 7, 9, 10. 
Pale or greenish yellow marked with dark fuscous or black as follows: Two subcontiguous 
spots on mesonotum in front, extending on to the pronotum and there connected; one at each 
