AUSTRALIAN HYMLNOPTEEA ClIALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIUAULT. 
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Genus OOTETEASTICHUS Perkins.^ 
Head (cephalic aspect) longer than wide, the genal suture long, deep. 
1. OOTETEASTICHUS BEATUS Perkins. 
Unfortunately, the marginal spots on the abdomen of this species are not definitely 
described.’^ The follo\Ying api^arent new varieties. Antea, p. 217, line 3, dots should read spots. 
A. OOTETEASTICHUS BEATUS ANCEPS new variety. Female. 
Golden yellow; quite as des(‘ribed for the typical form. The five marginal spots on 
abdomen are round, rather large and extend from jiear base to distal two thirds. Markings 
only slightly metallic. Characterized apparently by the rather large marginal spots on abdomen. 
General color fades after death to pale yellow’. 
From one female captured by s\veei>ing in a weedy Chinese garden, bTovember 3, 1912. 
Kabitai: Proserpine, Queensland. Ko type. 
B. OOTETEASTICHUS BEATUS AFFINIS new variety of A. P. Dodd and A. A. Girault. 
Female: — Length, 1.60 mm. Pale lemon yellow and agreeing with Perkins’s description 
of beaius heatus except that the spots on the lateral margins of abdomen are not spots but 
transverse dashes (except a dot at base; four transverse dashes). 
Described from one female cajdured by sw’ecping jungle along a forest streamlet, 
January 3, 1913 (A. V. Dodd). 
HaMlat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy^SOS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on 
a slide. 
2. OOTETEASTICHUS LUSTEIS Girault. 
This is the genotype of Frocerato^ienra in the Ceratoneurini, described on a later page. 
Antea, p. 218, line 7 of the diagnosis 07ie should read are. 
. 3. OOTETEASTICHUS CONSIMILIS Girault. 
A female, forest, type locality, April 9, 1914. The pronotum and propodeum have a 
purplish tinge. First three stripes of abdomen rii.ore distinct than the fourth, the third stripe 
a little distad of middle. The marginal black of abdomen is more or less broken. Propodeum 
scaly, with a median carina but no true lateral ones. 
4. OOTETEASTICHUS SILVENSIS Girault. 
This belongs to Neotetraslichodes which see. 
5. OOTETEASTICHUS GUTTATUS Girault. 
A female from forest, type- locality, August 13 and December 14, 1913. The markings 
are dark metallic green. A dot on pronotum caudo-laterad. Propodeum on each side dusky. 
Fifth marginal spot on abdomen much smaller than the others. Mandibles tridentate. Valves 
of ovipositor shortly extruded. Funicics 2 and 3 suboqual. Axillie eoncolorous (soiled in the 
type). Stigma! vein long; wings slender. The large oval fuscous spot in center of abdomen 
at base absent (in the type due to debris). Allied with fasciaiwentris. Type re-examined. 
“The species /cEscirtfit'eniW.'? is coinriion at Gordonvale, Queensluud, from where it was described from specimens 
captured in December, 1912. The type is on a tag and slide. 
^ “ Tour or five pairs of marginal spots” which may mean four or five pairs (8-10) on each margin (16-20) or 
four or five on each side (8*10). I have taken it to mean four or five along each margin, since really paired 
marginal markings are rare (an example is GfotiusieUd Tnultiyuttatci described in part XIV). Also, the spots may he- 
round, square, or and so forth. 
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