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wider than long; second funicle joint shortest, narrower, transverse and like a ring-joint, the 
third twice longer, plainly wider than long, about half or more the length of 1. Stigmal 
vein long. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from two females captured by sweeping undergrowth, mostly eucalypts, 
April 20, 1913 (H. Hacker). 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Types: No. Hy 1840, Queensland Museum, the above specimens on a tag, the heads on 
a slide. 
5. EPENTASTICHUS FLAVUS (Girault). Female. 
QuadrasticJiodes flavus Girault. 
Honey yellow ; dot on pronotum caudo-laterad, a triangular spot on axilla meso-cephalad, 
dorsal aspect of propodeum, several spots on each side of abdomen near base followed by an 
apparent short cross-stripe near the middle; ring-joint large, the pedicel long but not quite as 
long as joints 1 and 2 of the funicle united, these joints longer than wide, joint 3 barely so. 
Habitat: Hnghenden, Queensland. Forest-downs. 
Type: No. Hy 1850, Queensland Museum. 
APROSTOCEROLOIDES new genus. 
Female : — Like TricJiaporoidella Girault but the scutum with a median grooved line. 
Mandibles tridentate. 
Male : — Not known. 
Type: The following species (speciosus ) . 
1. APROSTOCEROLOIDES SPECIOSUS new species. Genotype. 
Female: — Length, 2.10 mm. 
Honey yellow; centre of vertex and flagellum black. Abdomen above shining coppery 
brown, but centrally near base this is broken by a large, triangular yellow area. Pedicel 
dusky, scape dusky along upper edge. Wings hyaline. Scutum (except cephalo-lateral angles), 
scutellum and propodeum metallic light blue, also the centre of each axilla. Propodeum with a 
strong median carina, densely reticulate scaly like the rest of the thorax. Funicle joints 
elongate, the first longer than the club, the third a little shorter than the club, the second 
subequal to it. Axilla* not advanced. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from a single female captured by sweeping in the forest, July 9, 1913. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1851, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
