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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



Pbs, Prebasisternite. 



PCX, Precoxale. 



Pfs, Postfurcasternite. 



Plph, Pleurophragmite. 



Pm, Posttergite. 



Poc, Postcoxale. 



Ppl, Pteropleurite. 



Psa, Posterior subalare. 



Psc, Prescutum. 



Psl, Postscutellum. 



Pt, Peritreme. 



The subscripts i, 2 and 3, denote that the sclerite in question belongs 

 to the prothorax, mesothorax and metathorax respectively. 



Pin, Pleurotrochantin. 



Sc, Scutum. 



Sept, Analpterale. 



S'csl, Scutoscutellum. 



SI, Scutellum. 



Ss, Spinasternite. 



Tgj Tegula, or parapteron. 



Tn, Trochantin. 



Tnl, Trochantinelle. 



Vex, Veracoxa. 



A new Megastigmid from Queensland, Australia 

 (Hym., Chalcidoidea). 



By A. A. GIRAULT, Nelson (Cairns), N. Q., Australia. 

 The following species belongs to a genus heretofore known 

 from Java only but seems to differ from the type of it in bear- 

 ing a petiolate abdomen. 



Spilomegastigmus flavus new species. 



Female. Length, 2 mm., excluding ovipositor which is slightly long- 

 er than the abdomen, their valves black. Wings hyaline excepting the 

 stigma; abdomen with a distinct petiole which, however, is not very 

 much longer than wide. Honey yellow the abdomen with transverse 

 short stripes of black; legs and scape pale yellow, the flagellum dusky. 

 Mesoscutum and scutellum transversely wrinkled, the latter without a 

 cross furrow. Mandibles bidentate. Antennae slender, n-jointed, the 

 club solid, one ring joint; all funicle joints longer than wide, the first 

 three subequal, longest, much longer than the pedicel. Head smooth. 



(From one specimen, 2-3-inch objective, i-inch optic, Bausch and 

 Lomb.) 



Male. Not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in a forest, 

 April i, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Australia Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type : In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a tag and the head in xylol-balsam on a slide. 



*ENT. NEWS, XXIII, 392-94, 1912. 



