44 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Polynema shakespearei, new species. 



Close to thoreauini but when compared with type differs as 

 follows : Ovipositor somewhat shorter, the single line of discal 

 cilia which runs to marginal vein is composed of minute, rather 

 pale cilia (in the other distinct and as large as the other cilia; 

 low power) ; funicle 4 somewhat shorter than 1 ; petiole black. 



Brisbane, H. Hacker. 



Anastatus gibboni, new species. 



Runs to racinei but at once differs in .that the narrow hyaline 

 band from marginal is only distinct centrally, a central trian- 

 gular, hyaline area ; f unicles 4-6 are soiled yellow like the 

 scape. Otherwise the same. 



December 2, 1918, jungle along the Mulgrave near Gor- 

 donvale. 



Eupelmus brutus, new species. 



Like description Anastatus frederici but ovipositor a bit 

 over half abdomen, basal and distal one-fifth black, rest white ; 

 legs red save pale tarsi (coxse, femur 1, femur 2 at middle of 

 sides, tibiae 1 and 3 centrally, metallic). Fore wings yellow 

 at cephalic half under marginal and postmarginal. Funicles 

 2-4 equal, twice longer than wide, equal pedicel. 



Near Ayr (Inkerman), December 9, 1917. 



Polynema ara, new species. 



Red-brown, antennae, body of abdomen black, femora 3 in- 

 fuscated. Scaly, scutellum with punctate cross-suture near 

 apex, propodeum with lateral carinae only, these converging 

 toward apex and closer to meson than usual. Fore wing with 

 three smoky equidistant cross-stripes, basal longest, half way 

 from venation to 2, margins straight ; 2 at distal two-thirds, 

 narrowest, crooked, cephalad of middle abruptly truncated and 

 somewhat swollen, continued across from disto-caudal corner 

 obliquely a short way to center where it obliques to hind mar- 

 gin in the opposite direction — proximo-caudad — and is so 

 widened at the base at middle as to reach over to stripe 3 at 

 its center thus forming a quadrate and a triangular eye spot, 



