AUSTRALIAN EYMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.— GIB AULT. 
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6. EPITETRASTICHUS TRIFASCIATUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 2.05 mm. 
Honey yellow, the wings hyaline, the scutum reddish; tip of valves of ovipositor black; 
abdomen margined along each side with black from base to distal two thirds just within 
the proximal half crossed by three black stripes. Antenna with four ring-joints, black, the 
pedicel rather long, subsequal to the distal joint of funicle. Mandibles tridentate. Propodeum 
short at meson, the caudal margin strongly carinate and the median carina quadrate. Abdomen 
long, conic-ovate. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from a single female captured by sweeping in the jungle, July 13, 1913. 
Habitat: Harvey % Creek (Cairns district), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 188&, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
7. EPITETRASTICHUS NYMPHA new species. 
Female: — Length, 2.00 mm. 
Agreeing with the description of long f elloivi but the pedicel nearly concolorous with the 
rest of the antenna, the abdomen is not yellowish at extreme base and the propodeum has a 
single, distinct median carina which forks at apex. Pronotum and scutum with obscure 
thimble punctures. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured from herbage, April 6, 1913 (“ 6.4.13 , ” H. Hacker). 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1820, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
8. EPITETRASTICHUS NIGRIVENTRIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.65 mm. 
Orange yellow, the abdomen and middle of occiput black; flagellum dusky black, the 
proximal half of the scape yellowish. Mandibles tridentate. Legs orange yellow; face of 
pronotum black; wings hyaline. Pirst funicle joint only slightly longer than the other two, 
all cylindrical-oval and not much longer than wide. First ring-joint apparently divided into 
two transverse ones (making live in all). Propodeum with a short median carina, the lateral 
eariua) running directly from the rather large oval spiracle. Abdomen pointed, conic-ovate. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from a single female captured by sweeping in a jungle, July 13, 1913. 
Habitat: Harvey’s Creek, Nelson and Kuranda (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1824, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
Later, a second female was captured August 1, 1913, at Nelson, N.Q., by sweeping 
jungle growths along a forest streamlet and a third in September, jungle, Kuranda (A. P. 
Dodd). 
