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posterior angle of pronotum; anterior angles of parapsides and of the axillae; a line and 
one or two obscure marks near the tegulso; propodeum toward the sides; four or five pairs 
of marginal dots on the abdomen dorsad, the ovipositor and the tip of the tarsi. In certain 
lights, these dark markings show metallic green. Only slightly variable. 
Habitat: Queensland, Australia; Fiji. 
Types: (?) In the collections of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, Honolulu. 
2. OOTETRASTICHUS FASCIATIVENTRIS (Girault). Female. Type of Trichaporoides. 
Light lemon yellow marked with metallic greenish black or purplish as follows: The 
abdomen with about five transverse stripes and a longitudinal row of three spots on each side, 
the distal two just di'stad of the first and second stripes respectively; an inverted subcordate 
marking at the middle of the cephalic margin of scutum, the dorsal aspect of propodeum, the 
axillaa and a large spot, just before base (cephalad) cephalo-raesad on each parapside; a short 
elliptico-transverse, oblique dash just cephalad of the parapside; the distal tarsal joints and 
the tip of the valves of the ovipositor. Differs from bealus in the rather faint abdominal 
stripes, the wholly purplish propodeum and the solid marking on cephalic scutum. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 17S6, Queensland Museum. 
3. OOTETRASTICHUS VXRIDXTHORAX Girault. Female. 
Trichaporoides viridithorax Girault. 
Bright metallic green, the abdomen very pale yellow with the centre broadly blackish 
along the meson from apex proximad a little more than half way to base, this coloration 
verging to metallic green at apex; a line of blackish around base and down each side (dorsal 
aspect) for a quarter the length of the abdomen; rather faint cross-stripes on abdomen. Lower 
half of face yellowish. Hind coxa concolorous, rest of legs pale yellow. Pedicel as long as 
the third funicle joint. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. Hy 1787, Queensland Museum. 
4. OOTETRASTICHUS FLAVUS (Girault). Female. 
Trichaporoides flavus Girault. 
Differs from fasciativentris in lacking the metallic coloration, in having but four 
abdominal stripes, in having the pedicel plainly shorter than the distal funicle joint and in 
being browmish yellow, the thorax obscurely dusky, more especially at cephalic margin of 
-scutum centrally. 
Habitat: Babinda (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle. 
Type: No. Hy 178R, Queensland Museum. 
5. OOTETRASTICHUS NYMPHA (Girault). Female. 
Trichaporoides nympha Girault. 
Differing from viridithorax in having the proximal half of the abdomen pale lemon yellow 
and the entire head the same color; also the hind coxa is yellow like the rest of the legs. 
