AVSTEALIAN HYMElS^OTTEEA CnALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIEAULT. 
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4. NEOTETRASTICHODES ROBUSTUS new species of A. P. Dodd. 
Female: — ^Length, 2.10 inni. Robust. 
’ Dark metallic green, the eoxse concolorous, the rest of legs and antennal scape bright 
golden yellow; pedicel and ring-joints brownish, rest of antennce black. Wings stained 
yellowish. Thorax with scattered bristles. Propodeum rather short and broad, with a median 
Carina. Abdomen conic-ovate, straight above, convex beneath. Scape slender, normal ; pedicel 
elongate; fiinicle 1 distinctly longer than pedicel, nearly four times as long as wide, 2 no longer 
than the pedicel, 3 shorter; club no longer than funielc 1, with a short terminal nipple; ring- 
joints not large. 
From one female taken from a window, Cooktown, February 3, 1912 (A.A.G.). 
Habitat: Cooktown, Ayr, Ingham and Herberton, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy^586, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the Cooktown specimen on a tag, the- 
head on a slide. 
Also a female was taken from a window, Ayr, November 7, 1912; one from a window, 
Ingham, February 16, 1913; and another from a w-indow', Herberton, December 28, 1913- 
(A.A.G.). 
5. NEOTETRASTICHODES MERIDIALIS new species of A. P. Dodd. 
Female: — Length, 1.65 inm. 
Very similar to rohusius Dodd but smaller, the hind coxaa golden yellow, the flagellum 
wholly yellow-brown; wings hyaline; propodeum not short; pedicel as long as the elongate flrst 
fimicle joint; club longer than funicle 1. 
From one female from a window of a wool-store, October 3, 1911 (A. A. Girault). 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy3587, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a slide. 
6. NEOTETRASTICHODES MERIDIANUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.40 mm. 
Similar to maxhnus Dodd and Girault and ceneus Girault differing from the former in 
not being very dark, black or nearly, but dark metallic green like ceneus; also the fore wdngs 
are smaller, the antennas dusky yellowish not black (exceid scax)e) and they are less robust. The 
tibiae are all straw’ yellow, the femora concolorous. Differs from w^ieus in having the femora 
concolorous and the pedicel somewhat less elongate. The pronotnm is long, the upper thorax 
naked in all three species. 
From two females on a card labelled No. 27, Nat. Mus., Victoria. From galls on gum. 
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Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. 
Type: No. Hy$588, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the two specimens on a card, a head 
on a slide. 
7. NEOTETRASTICHODES PERKINSI new species. 
Female: — Length, about 1.15 mm. 
Pale golden yellow, the Avings hyaline, the body marked with small black spots as 
follows: Three marginal spots (wider than long) on proximal half of abdomen and a minute 
dot eaudad of the third; a longer than wide, small spot on pronotnm caudo-laterad, oue just 
mesad of tegiila and one on lateral propodeum, the three in a line caudo-eephalad but the line 
obliqued a little caudo-mesad. Antenn® as in OoieirasI kOius heatus Perkins. First and fourth 
ring-joints large, the inner two transverse-Uncar. Form like Ootetrasiicbns. Pedicel subeqnal 
to funicle 3, club 1 longest. Funicle 3 much longer than wide. Mandibles tridentate. Tip of 
valves of ovipositor black. 
From one female taken by sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, January 3, 3913' 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat : Gordonvale, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy^589, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 
