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Genus EPITETRASTICHUS Girault. 
The name Pentastichodes is naked and •without standing in nomenclature. 
1. EPITETRASTICHUS SPECIOSISSIMUS Girault. 
The type specimen was caj^tured in grass near a caiiefield, Babinda, October 29, 1911. 
The sixth abdominal marginal spot is open laterad, the first at base joined across meson. 
The conical marking of scutum may go only to apex of that part. One female, Gordonvale,. 
forest, August 8, 1914. 
2. EPITETRASTICHUS FLAVIPOSTSCUTELLUM Girault. 
Length, 1 mm. Wings hyaline. Type female was caj>tured December 27, 1913 by 
sweeping in the forest alojig Cape River; it is on a tag, the head on a slide. 
3. EPITETRASTICHUS XANTHER (Girault). 
A common forest species. A7itca (these memoirs, II), p. 200, line 1 under this species,, 
face should read occipnt. The species is distinct from iHcjrivcntris. The thoracic pleura are 
often suffused with dusky, the cross-stripes of al)domen are regular, often alternately less 
broad or slightly incomplete laterad. Fuuide joints snboqual to each other and to the pedicel. 
The club bears a .short nipple. Propodeum short at the meson, there with a median earina. 
A female in the type locality, November 8, sweeping edges of a forest streamlet. 
“The black stripes across the abdomen are often obscure and suffused. One female, 
Eossville (Cooktown), Queensland, February 23, 1912, sweeping jungle along a roadside 
(A.A.G.) and another from forest, ileerawa, Queensland, July 26, 1913 (A.A.G.)^' — A. P. 
Dodd. 
A. EPITETRASTICHUS XANTHER HILLI new variety. 
Like xanther but the abdotneu has but four cross-stripes commencing from proximal 
fourth, at base yellow; the body is suialler and the postscutellum yellow. Fuuicle 1 is also 
a little longer than the others, 3 subglobular. Autenna? yellowish, also seutellum. Propodeum 
with a median cariua but no true lateral one. 
From one female taken from bushes, October 10, 1913 (G. F. Hill). 
Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 
Type: No. By ^59^, Queensland lluseum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 
4. EPITETRASTICHUS LONGFELLOWI Girault. 
Synonyms: Epoaiplialoidefi vwid'is, Girault; Epiteivastichus 'iiy'inpha Girault. 
The median earina of propodeum forks only at apex and is quite solid. The abdomen 
has no petiole. Type re-examined. 
The median earina of propodeum in this species and in vyvipha broadens just before 
distal end into a fork but the latter is solid; tiie oblong propodeal spiracle is near lateral 
margin, its long axis caudo-ccpbalad. Both are the same yet the caudal wings in nymplia 
are slightly narrower and there is no yellow on the abdomen. The species mieithorax differs 
from both in having the scutum naked and as otherwise indicated, Tyjies ro-oxamined. 
Dark metallic purple; legs bright golden yellow, the cephalic coxeg suffused with 
metallic; autenual scape yellow, pedicel browu, rest black. Wiugs hyaline. Scutum with 
scattered bristles from setigerous punctures; median groove of scutum complete, narrow. 
Propodeum moderately short, with fiue scaly sculpture; lateral earinai absent; median distinct. 
