AV&TKALIA^^ UYMENOPTEHA CIIALCIBOIJDEA, IV.—GIEAVLT. 
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elongate pedicel. Scape yellow exeej)t at apex above. Ring-joint 2 extremely short, the other 
three large. Mandibles bidentate, tooth 2 broadly truncate. The yellow of abdomen at side- 
of base is distinct but less than a sixth of its length. The spot above at base of abdomen 
also shorter than in the compared species. 
Prom one female caught in forest, May 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Ilahitai : Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy^63o. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a 
slide. 
Compared with tyj^e of the Trichdjforoidcs. 
Ckxus EPPNTASTICHUS Girault. 
1. EPENTASTICHUS WALLACEI new name. 
Aprostoaetus sexguitaius Girault, preoccupied. 
Female: — Length, 0.80 mm. 
Agi’ees with the description of Fpevtasticlms flavella but only the meson of propodeum 
is dusky, the body is golden yellow, the abdomen ])ears three roundish marginal dots on 
a little over j)roximal half and is dusky across base narrowly. Also funicle 1 is shortest, 
quadrate, 2 and 3 soinewliat longer than wide, each sojuewhat shorter than the pedicel whicdi is 
somewhat shorter than with flares. An oblique dusky stri]ie along cephalic margin of 
pro])odeuni on each side of meson. Otherwise, like flams. Club wi1li a short terminal spine. 
Mandibles tridentate. Propodeum with a median carina. Wings l)road. Hind wings with, 
about five lines of discal cilia where widest. 
Prom one female captured in forest, April 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd), Cloncurry, Queeiisland.. 
2. EPENTASTICHUS QUADRIMACUL.S new species. 
Female : — The same as wallacei but the abdomen bears only two of the marginal' 
dots, the proximal two, and the body is a third larger. 
Prom one female captured with the above (irollacei) . April 15, 1914. 
]{ ahitot : Cloncurry, Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. ITySS'iS, Queensland Ahisenm, P>risbane, the specimen on a slide. 
3. EPENTASTICHUS FLAVELLA new species. 
8ee aiilta (these Memoirs, TI), p. 243, Kpentasticlies fianis (Girault) whieli, together- 
with Quadrasiichodes flams Girault, is a nomen nvdum. Additional characters are: Length, 
1.18 mm. Autenna' inserted a little above the ventral ends of the eyes. ^!a7idibles tridentate. 
Marginal cilia of fore wings short. Scape long, compre.ssed. Club terminating in a nipple. 
The tyjie is a head on a slide. The type female was captiued on forest dovMis, July 14, 1912. 
Gkxus vSYNTOMOSPHVRELLA Girault. 
1 SYNTOMOSPHYRELLA PUSCIPENNIS Girault. 
One female, type locality, December 4, forest. C’om])arod with type. The head is more- 
or less brownish and tlie jiostinarginal vein really only a fourth the length of the stigmal. The- 
si)ecies resembles SeUtrichodcUa. fiiscipcvnis. 
This species must staml as it is though it is exceedingly similar to Selitrichodelia 
fii.scipennUi. Yet the latter is said to have a solid club and a groove on the scutum. Both 
S]>eoies have a sliort ])ropodeum at meson Avhich bears a coiipjlete median carina (very short) 
and no others. The wings are identical but distinctly broader in the Selitrichodelia and the- 
