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under venation. Thorax sculptured nearly as in species of Tctrastichus but the scutum 
densely scaly except at cephalic third. Abdomen margined with brown. Antennas 10-jointed, 
one ring-joint and a 3-jointed club, the third joint of the latter very minute like a nipple yet 
apparently articulated. Funicle joints subequal, each slightly longer than the pedicel. Pro- 
podeum with a long median carina, apparently smooth. Longest hind tibial spur not quite half 
the length of the hind tarsus. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. Hy 1909 , Queensland Museum. 
4. EUPLECTRUS CAIRNSENSIS Girault. Female. 
The same as in xantlioceplialus but the head is black, the wings hyaline; longest spur 
of hind tibia over half the length of the hind tarsus. Joints 1 and 4 of funicle a little longer 
than either of joints 2 or 3. Median carina of propodeum straight, single. 
Habitat: Cairns and Nelson, Queensland and Thursday Island, Torres Strait. Jungle 
and forest. 
Type: No. Hy 1910, Queensland Museum. 
What appears to be a male of this species was captured by sweeping in forest, March 
12, 1912, on Thursday Island. 
5. EUPLECTRUS MELANOCEPHALUS Girault. Female. 
Pilfering from caimsensis in having the third coxa black; like australiensis but the sides 
of the abdomen dorsad margined with purplish black while the whole distal third of that region 
is the same colour; pr onotum not punctate, feebly alutaceous, the vertex nearly smooth; 
sculpture otherwise as in xantlioceplialus ; antenna) blackish toward tip. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle. 
Type: No. Hy 1911, Queensland Museum. 
6. EUPLECTRUS NIGRIFEMUR Girault. Female. 
Differing from melon ocephalus in having the cephalic coxa black, the legs brown, the hind 
femur black, the first femur blackish around the middle. Flagellum pale dusky yellow; 
distad somewhat less than third of abdomen blackish above. Median carina of propodeum 
forked at proximal fourth as in the others but the fork longer. Seutellum and scutum rugose, 
the axilla* nearly smooth, the parapsides alutaceous, the pronotum along cephalic margin with 
a cross-row of deep fovea). Head nearly smooth. Seutellum with two foveate grooves. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle. 
Type: No. Hy 1916, Queensland Musenm. 
7. EUPLECTRUS SCOTTI new species. 
Female: — Length, 3.20 mm. 
Like caimsensis but the seutellum is longitudinally wrinkled and the scutum with a 
distinct median carina. Like agarisice but all legs, abdomen and antenna) pale lemon yellow, 
funicle 4 distinctly longer (by a fourth) than the pedicel, funWe 1 about one and a half times 
the length of the pedicel. Long stria t ion of seutellum distinct; parapsides sculptured like the 
