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MEMOIJRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND IIUSEVIL. 
5. TETRASTICHODES SECUS new species. 
Female : — Lengthy 1.20 ninu 
Nearly exactly like S}jniomo.si)]iy)'clJa acomaia Girault and Dodd but differing in 
coloration as follows: The whole of the propodeum is black and a little distad of middle of 
abdomen there are two cross-stripes of black. The axilla) are black for somewhat over cephalic 
half. Fnnicle, pedicel and mandibles as in the sx^eclcs named. Tegula and vicinity black. 
There may be a minute black dot on the shoulder and the scutum centrally may be more or 
less dusky. There may be a third and fourth stripe on the abdomen, one proximad, the other 
distad of the two lines and both ititerrupted at meson and a spot at base of scutellum. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from four females reared from miscellaneous galls on Eucalyptus, October 9, 
1913 (E. J. Girault). 
Eahitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Ey 3462, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
6. TETRASTICHODES INTENTATUS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 
Female: — Length, 1 mm. Short and robust, the abdomen stout. 
Brown ; the wings hyaline ; the abdomen with three broad black stripes across it, 
equidistant from each end, each stri^ie distinctly interrupted at the meson j legs and antennse 
yellowish. Fiuiicle joints suboqnal, each a little longer than wide. Mandibles tridentate. 
Head pale yellowisli brown. Propodeum very short. 
Described from one female caught by sweeping in forest, mainland, opposite Double 
Island, December 24, 1911 (A. A. Girault). 
Halit at: Northern Queensland (near Cairns). 
Type: No. By 2554, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag. 
7. TETRASTICHODES AURIFLAVUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.80 mm. Form short and robust, the abdomen ronnded. 
Bright greenish or golden yellow, immaculate, but sometimes a subfuscous spot is 
present on ]»rouotunp just cex)haia(l of each para])sidal furrow and the abdomen has very 
faint indications of deeper yellow cross-stripes. Mandibles tridentate. Pedicel not elongate, 
but distinctly longer than hrst funicle joint which is somewhat longer than wide, distinctly 
longer than joints 2 and 3 which are subeqiial and somewhat wider than long. Club without 
a distinct terminal seta. Caudal margin of x>ropodeum narrowly black. Scape somewhat 
comxu’essed. First tarsal joint of hind legs shortest. Ocelli in a very flat triangle. Propodeum 
very short. 
Male : — The same but the abdomen dexwessed. 
Described from many sx>ecimens of each sex reared from miscellaneous galls on 
Eucalyx^tus, foresf, October, 1913. 
Halitai: Northern Queensland (Gordonvale, near Cairns). 
Types: No. By 2552, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male, two females on a tag. 
Ten females taken at random were examined for presence of the median sulcus on 
the scutum and in most eases it was found jtresent, though absent In five females examined 
immediately after being taken from alcohol. However, in the ten dry females, the groove 
was never complete, was often oblique, often accomx>anied by lateral and unsymmetrical cracks 
and thus was most probably due to shrivelling. An examination for variation in the absence 
of this groove will have to be made from sjiecimens as they are taken from alcohol. In one 
of these females, a dusky s^iot was x)reseut centrally at base of scutellum. There was no 
variation in the antennaB. 
