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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAEI) MUSEUM. 
4. APROSTOCETUS OBSCURUS Girault. 
A female, jungle, Babinda, Queensland, February 13, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Punicle 1 is 
-only about one and a half times longer than wide. The pronotum is metallic bluish, perhaps. 
6. APROSTOCETUS IMAGO new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.25 mm. Short, stout, the prox^odeum very short, the abdomen stout. 
Almost exactly the image of Tetrastichodes seats Girault but stouter, greenish yellow, 
the pronotum broadly along meson is black; also the long scutum bears a distinct sulcus and 
is of the usual sculx)ture of the tribe (in secus, the scutum is very minutely, densely retieu- 
lately scaly). There is no minute dot just mesad of tegula. Pedicel black above at base, 
subequal to funicle 2 wliich is longest, some'what longer than wide; funicles 1 and 3 subequal, 
-quadrate. Club with a distinct terminal spine. Outer tooth of mandible distinct, acute, the 
inner two shorter, acute. Compared with type of secus. Abdomen with two distinct stripes 
at middle. 
From one female caught by miscellaneous sweeping, May 11, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Eahitat: Murwillumbah, New South Wales. 
Type: No. Ey2555, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 
•on a slide. 
This sx^ecies is remarkably like the Tetrastichodes. The third club joint is obliquely 
divided from the others. 
6. APROSTOCETUS PLATONI new species. 
Female: — ^Length, 1.20 mm. 
Greenish yellow, the wings hyaline, the x^i'opodeum except eaudad on each side of 
meson, ocellar area, most of axillm, four to hvn spots on each side of abdomen, the sx>ace 
between the third and fourth occupied by a broad smoky cross-strix^e (at middle of abdomen 
or nearly) and togula>, dusky black. Proxmdeum with a short median carina and several 
irregular carinsa near the spiracle. Sciitellum hiterad of second groove, blackish. Funicle 
joints 2 and 3 subecjual, a little longer than 1 which is not much longer than wide; pedicel 
.as long as funicle 2. Mandibles tridentate, the two outer teeth acute and longer. Distal 
club joint with its separating suture oblique, its terminal spine small but distinct. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from two females reared from a miscellaneous collection of galls from forest 
trees, November 8, 1913. 
Habitat : Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Types: No. HyS457, (Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimens on a slide. 
The species is dedicated to the xdiilosopher Plato. 
7. APROSTOCETUS TARSALIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.22 mm. 
Dark metallic xnu'x>le, the abriomen honey yellow margined rather narrowly with purple 
from base nearly to apex, dorsad with a mesal purx>le transverse sxmt tendiiig to be a cross- 
stripe (faintly so from each side of the meson) at middle followed by a round spot on the 
next segment at meson. Coxa and proximal third of femora concolorous; rest of legs and 
scape colored like the abdomen; pedicel and ring-joint suffused with yellowish. Funicle joints 
elongate, each distinctly much longer than the pedicel, 1 a little the longest, over twice longer 
than wide, not quite as long as the club, the latter with a distinct terminal spine. Pedicel 
only a third longer than Avide at ax)ex. Mandibles edentate, obtusely pointed; oral area 
orange yellow. Abdomen at base but very narrowly purple if at all. Propodeum distinctly 
