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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Sides of thorax around wing insertion and the prepectus, pale yellowish. Ocellar area metallic 
green. Scape yellow, the funicle joints subequal, the first somewhat longest. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1789, Queensland Museum. 
6. OOTETRASTICHUS GROTIUSI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.25 mm. 
Bright metallic green, the wings hyaline, the head, legs except the concolorous hind coxa 
and the black distal tarsal joints, abdomen except distal fourth which is metallic green and 
three or four cross-stripes of dusky at middle, pale lemon yellow; ocellar area colored some- 
what. Sides of pronotum lemon yellow, also the prepectus. First funicle joint distinctly 
longer than the second which is subequal to the third. A black stripe across between the 
eyes (but on the occiput?). Allied with nymplia. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in the forest, July 9, 1913 (A. P. 
Dodd). 
Dedicated to Hugo Grotius. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1790, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. 
Another female was captured in a similar situation, August 3, 1913. 
7o OOTETRASTICHUS INGHAMENSIS new species. 
Female : — Like the preceding ( grotiusi ) but the distal third of abdomen green, the 
cross-stripes absent, but the distal green continued up each margin to base. Prepectus 
concolorous and propleura also. 
From one female captured by sweeping a boggy meadow, July 17, 1912. 
Habitat: Ingham, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1791, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
8. OOTETRASTICHUS LUSTRIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.25 mm. 
Like sublustris but the margins of the eyes are yellowish and the scape all dusky, the 
antennas differing as follows: — The funicle joints are shorter and stouter, also the club whose 
two joints are subequal (in £ ublustris, the proximal joint distinctly shorter than the distal) ; 
the first funicle joint is not more than twice its width (somewhat over thrice in sublustris ) ; 
the pedicel is subequal to the distal club joint (distinctly shorter than it is in sublustris). 
The three teeth of the mandibles one short but distinct (in sublustris the two inner teeth are 
hardly separated). 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, June 27, 1913. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1792, Queensland Museum. The above specimen on a tag, the head on a. 
slide. 
