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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
12. OQTETRASTICHUS SILVENSIS new species. 
Female: — 1.45 nun. 
Metallic green, tinged with purple and like speciosissimus Girault but the whole head 
concolorous and excepting for an elliptical spot in centre at base, nearly the proximal half 
of abdomen all around pale whitish ; the legs are white except the concolorous hind coxa 
(white, however, at distal third) ; scape white, the flagellum dusky yellow, the first funicle 
joint distinctly shorter than the club, the pedicel distinctly shorter than the third funicle joint. 
Male : — Unknown. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping a jungle-edged forest streamlet, 
January 3, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1796, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
13. OOTETRASTICHUS GUTTATA new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.15 mm. 
Orange yellow: wings hyaline, other appendages concolorous; cephalic two thirds of 
axilla, five large subquadrate spots along each side of abdomen and a large oval spot in 
centre of abdomen at about proximal third, fuscous. First funicle joint not as long as the 
club but distinctly the longest. Tip of valves of ovipositor black. 
Male: — -Not known. 
Described from a female captured by sweeping low vegetation in the forest on the side 
of Mount Pyramid, November 21, 1911 (elevation about 500 feet). 
EaUitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1797 , Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
14. OOTETRASTICHUS SPECIOSISSIMUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.40 mm. 
Metallic purple, the face centrally above antennae, the mesa.1 margins of each eye, the 
scape, ring-joints and pedicel, the legs (except the concolorous hind coxa) and somewhat 
over proximal third of abdomen pale lemon yellow; antennae blackish, also the pedicel above. 
The yellowish proximal third of abdomen crossed distad by a cross-stripe of narrow dusky and 
distad of this stripe, the yellow is narrowed by the short space being margined at each side 
with purplish. A very narrow stripe, triangularly accented, at immediate base of abdomen. 
First funicle joint as long as the club, the other two more or less equal (not subequal), the 
third somewhat shorter than the pedicel. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping jungle, May, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1798, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
Blide with the type head of Diaulomella australiensis Girault. 
