AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIRAULT. 
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<( candidus )., the pedicel elongate. They form at least a snbgenus. Their ring-joints are large 
•and distinct like those in the Pteromalida). In aeneus, the scape is compressed along the 
middle and without coarse scaly sculpture, while in the third species it is enlarged at apex 
:and coarsely scaly. The species candidus has a more distinct terminal nipple on the club than 
has aeneus (type antennaB of both species re-examined). 
Genus EPITETRASTICHUS Girault. 
Synonym : Pentastichodes Girault. 
Differs from T etrastichus Haliday in bearing four ring-joints; the propodeum is 
variable, sometimes very short, with a short median carina, the' abdomen conic-ovate, the 
form robust. (Type species re-examined.) 
1. EPITETRASTICHUS SPECIOSISSIMUS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Golden yellow', characteristically marked w-ith black, thus: A large obconical area 
from cephalic margin of scutum to proximal third of scutellum; most of interior of each 
axilla: a triangular spot at ccphalo-mesal margin of parapside, lateral pronotum, propodeum, 
much of mesopleurum and sides of propodeum and six broad stripes across the abdomen, 
each stripe with a large, roundish yellow spot centrally on each side of meson, forming a 
paired longitudinal row (six pairs, the fifth largest) ; vertex and centre of occiput. Funicle 
1 longer than the pedicel, joint 3 shorter than it. First ring- joint distinct, the others 
transverse- linear. 
Habitat: Babinda and Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. Grass and forest. 
Type : No. Hy 1817, Queensland Museum. 
A female was captured at Nelson by sweeping in forest, August, 1913. 
2. EPITETRASTICHUS FLAVIPOSTSCUTELLUM (Girault). Female. Type of 
Pentastichodes Girault. 
Pentastichodes flavi post scutellum Girault. 
Black, the postscutellum and all of abdomen except tip of ovipositor valves, lemon yellow, 
also the legs and antennae (coxae not seen). Funicle 1 subequal to the pedicel, the distal two 
joints subequal; mandibles tridentate. Propodeum with a median carina, scaly. 
Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hyl818, Queensland Museum. 
A second female of this species has been seen, captured with the type specimen. 
3. EPITETRASTICHUS LONGFELLOWI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.30 mm. 
Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the legs including coxgo, scape and pedicel, 
orange yellowish, the rest of antenna black. Sculptured finely as in Tetrastichus. Cephalic 
femur fuscous, the cephalic coxa concolorous. Ring- joints yellowish, the first funicle joint 
elongate, as long as the club, a third longer than the pedicel, second and third each in turn 
distinctly shorter, the third subequal to the long pedicel, half or more the length of the club; 
