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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Described from one female specimen captured by sweeping in forest, November 6, 1912. 
Habitat: Ayr, Queensland. 
Type: No. By 1846, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide (with the antennas of a Bhicnopeltella ) . 
2 . EPENTASTICHUS FUSCUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 0.65 mm. 
Brown, the wings hyaline, the scutellum yellow, the abdomen with three or four narrow 
transverse stripes across it, these stripes blackish and not very distinct. Legs paler, the 
antennas pallid, the pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints which are wider 
than long; distal club joint nearly twice the length of the proximal, the club somewhat 
longer than the funicle. Mandibles tridentate. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female specimen captured by sweeping lantana and other shrubs 
in an open field near town, October 20, 1911. 
Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1847, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on. a slide. 
3. EPENTASTICHUS SEXGUTTATUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 0.95 mm. 
Bright golden yellow, the wings hyaline, the abdomen with a blackish stripe across 
extreme base followed along each margin by a line of three short transverse black spots, the 
caudal one of these a little distad of middle. Pronotum at the meson, scutum across cephalic 
third nearly to each margin, apex (cephalic end) of each axilla and the propodeum dusky 
black. Legs wholly concolorous, also the antenna? but the pedicel dark except at tip, the scare 
pallid, slender, the first funicle joint shortest, subquadrate, the second longest, nearly twice 
the length of the first, longer than the pedicel. Mandibles tridentate. First club joint not 
much longer than the second. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping forest, summit of second coast range 
(1,500 feet), May 26, 1913. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hyl848, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
4. EPENTASTICHUS NIGRIVENTRIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.00 mm. Short, robust, the abdomen globate. 
Beddish brown, the abdomen black; cephalic, half each of scutum and axilla?, the 
parapsides and pronotum darker; wings hyaline; thorax extraordinarily, finely, densely, 
longitudinally lined; mandibles tridentate; legs yellow (coxa? not seen); antenna? yellow, 
the distal club joint over twice the length of the proximal, the pedicel stout, much larger than 
any of the funicle joints of which the first is much the longest, yet cupshaped and somewhat 
