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Family CALLIMOMID^. 



MEGASTIGMIN^. 



Genus Neomeoastigmus Girault. 



1. Neomegastigmus collaris, n. sp. 



Female. — Length 1.35 mm., excluding the ovipositor, which is 

 -about equal to the abdomen in length. 



Like lividus, but the ovipositor is shorter and the pronotum 

 pale orange yellow; also the legs are whiter, not pale lemon yellow. 

 The scutellum is uniformly sculptured in both species, like the rest 

 of the mesonotum. Also the head is dark orange yellow. Abdo- 

 men subsessile. 



Male. — Not known. 



Described from a single female captured by sweeping in open 

 forest (grasses), March 11, 1912. 



Habitat. — Australia — Thursday Island, Torres Strait. 



Type. — The above specimen on' a tag, the head on a slide-. 



2. Neomegastigmus petiolatus, n. sp. 



Female. — Length 1.95 mm., excluding the black exserj;ed 

 valves of the ovipositor, which are about two-thirds the length of 

 the abdomen. 



Orange yellow, the abdomen (its short, distinct petiole pallid), 

 propodeum and distal third of scutellum purplish black. Fuscous 

 ■spot from stigma large, nearly a band across the wing. Caudal 

 margin of segments 2-4 of abdomen incised at meson, the incision 

 large, wide on segment 2, minute on segment 4. Cephalic legs 

 (femur and distad) pale the others concolorous with the abdomen, 

 but all tarsi pale, the antennae straw yellow; funicle joints all shorter 

 than the pedicel. Thorax densely reticulated and transversely 

 lineolated. 



Male. — Not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping lantana and 

 •other bushes in a field near town, October 21, 1911. 



Habitat. — Australia — Mackay, Queensland. 



Type. — The above specimen on a tag and a slide bearing the 

 head. 

 3. Neomegastigmus lividus Girault. 



One female by sweeping lantana and other bushes in a meadow 

 near the town of Mackay, Queensland, October 21, 1911. 



