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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Genus NEOTETRASTICHODES Girault. 
Differing from Tetrasticliodes Girault in bearing four ring-joints; funicle 3-jointed. 
1. NEQTETRASTICHODES FLAVUS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Light orange yellow, the appendages concolorous, the wings hyaline ; middle of face and. 
dorsum of abdomen obscurely dusky; funicle joints subequal, each slightly shorter than the- 
pedicel. Male abdomen dusky with a white area at base; the male funicle is 4- jointed, the 
last joint longest, the antenna) with long hairs. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1814, Queensland Museum. 
2 . NEQTETRASTICHODES AENEUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.35 mm. Short and stout, the abdomen globular. 
Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; coxa) dusky, the legs pale yellowish except the 
dusky hind femur; antenna) dusky yellowish, the long pedicel black, the scape compressed, 
the three funicle joints stout, subequal, subquadrate, each distinctly shorter than the elongate 
pedicel. With the usual fine tetrastichine sculpture. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from a single female captured by sweeping in forest, August 4, 1913 (A. P. 
Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 1815, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
Another female was obtained the following day in the same place. This species differs 
from the type species in having a short propodeum and globular abdomen. 
3. NEOTETRASTICHODES CANDIDUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.60 mm. 
Brilliant metallic green, the legs except last two pairs of coxa) intense lemon yellow, 
the wings hyaline. Like aenea structurally but the distal two funicle joints distinctly wider 
than long, joint 1 distinctly longer than them, subquadrate. The elongate pedicel orange. 
Mandibles 4-dentate, the first two teeth apparently minute and shortest. Scape enlarged at' 
apex and with a coarse scaly sculpture. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, September 12, 1913 (A. P. 
Dodd.) 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. Eyl816, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
The two species aeneus and candidus have short propodeums, the abdomen short and' 
globular, the scape more or less distinctly enlarged and witli a coarse scaly sculpture' 
