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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
2 . TETRASTICHELLA NOVIFASCIATUS (Girault). Female. 
Tctrastickus fasciatus Girault. 
Lemon yellow, the abdomen darker, the wings hyaline; centre of scutum with a round 
fuscous spot on each side of meson; pronotum cephalad, parapsidal furrows and suture 
between scutum and scutellura black; also lateral margin of scutellum more broadly; abdomen 
with from six to seven black cross-stripes. Appendages concolorous, the antenna) more or less 
dusky. Propodeum and cephalic half of scutum centrally darker. Funicle joints more or less 
quadrate. Two club joints, three ring-joints. Pedicel twice the length of any of the funicle 
joints. (Type antenna? re-examined.) 
Habitat: Queensland (? Brisbane). Forest. 
Types: No. Hy 1201 , Queensland Museum. 
3. TETRASTICHELLA ACUMINATIVENTRIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.70 mm., including the ovipositor which is exserted for a third 
the length of the abdomen, the latter nearly twice the length of the thorax. 
Very dark metallic ^Riah, the wings hyaline; distal third of first two pairs of femora, 
knees, tibia? and tarsi yellow, the rest of the legs concolorous; antenna) dusky yellowish, the 
first ring-joint large, distinct, the other two extremely short but easily found, the funicle joints 
longer than wide, subequal to each other and to the pedicel; first club joint much shorter than 
the second which bears a small nipple. Mandibles tridentate. Postmarginal vein absent. 
Characterized by the slender abdomen and the longlv exserted ovipositor. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from two females captured by sweeping in forest, August 4, 1913 (A. P. 
Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1835, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag together, their 
heads together on a slide. 
4. TETRASTICHELLA HAECKELI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.00 mm. 
Deep golden yellow, the legs and antenna) concolorous, the wings hyaline; scutum 
interiorly except the margins and median line, median line of scutellum broadly (almost to 
first groove), axilla) centrally to apex, parapside along mesal margin and pronotum broadly 
along each side of the narrow yellow meson, embrowned. Propodeum laterad, a small round 
spot on pronotum just cephalad of the parapsidal furrows and five or six narrow stripes across 
abdomen black or dark fuscous. Propodeum with a median carina. Pedicel stout, over twice 
the length of any of the funicle joints which are subequal and only slightly longer than w T ide. 
Mandibles tridentate. Postmarginal vein absent. 
Male: — Not, known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping undegrowth, mostly eucalypts, April 
30, 1913 (H. Hacker). 
'Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1836, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head and a 
fore w T ing on a slide. 
