332 NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, 



Type— No. 4877, U.S.N.M. 

 Hab.— Sydney, N.S.W. 



Described from 3 £ and 5 <£ specimens bred by Mr. Froggatt 

 from "a soft red gall on Eucalyptus." 



Subfamily iv— MEGASTIGMIN.3S. 

 Genus Megastigmus, Dalman. 

 (9) Megastigmus Iamenus, Walker. 



1839. Walk. Monogr. Chalcid. ii. p. G. 



Hab. — Sydney, IST.S. Wales. Of this species Mr. Froggatt has 

 sent 1 Q, bred from galls of Brachyscelis pileata, and 4 9 speci- 

 mens bred from a globular gall on Eucalyptus. The latter are 

 considerably larger than the dimensions of the species as given by 

 Walker, but otherwise seem to agree well with his description, 

 and with the smaller form bred from B. pileata. 



(10) Megastigmus asteri, n.sp. 



£. — Length 3 to 4 mm.; ovipositor as long as body. Brownish- 

 yellow, smooth and shining, except some delicate transverse stria- 

 on vertex of head, on mesonotum and within the femoral impres- 

 sion on the mesopleura; body clothed with some sparse black and 

 white hairs, metapleura with long, white hairs; sutures of scutellum 

 and metathorax, anterior margin of middle lobe of mesonotum, 

 mesosternum, bands on dorsum of abdomen and sheaths of ovi- 

 positor black or brown-black. Wings hyaline, the large, rounded 

 stigma and veins piceous-black or brown-black. Antennae brown- 

 black, scape and pedicel brownish-yellow; first five joints of funicle 

 about twice as long as wide, seventh joint very little longer than 

 thick. 



g. — Length 1*8 to 2 mm. Agrees very closely with the 9 in 

 colour, but there is a dusky spot on the vertex enclosing the 

 ocelli: the occiput, a band on anterior margin of mesonotum and 

 metathorax being black; while the fiagellum is of a light colour, 

 the joints of funicle being scarcely once and one-half as long as 

 thick. 



