^Q■2 MEilOmS OF THE (jVKHySLAXV MFSEFM. 



pairs of scleritcs between sciitelhmi and iiostscutellum). Fore wings ivitli a more or less 

 distinct subfuscons strijie across at aliont the middle. Valves of ovijiositor sliglitly exserted. 

 Tibial spurs single. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female captured Septendier o, U)l.'> by s\ueping in a .iungle iiocket. 



JTahilat: Gordonvale (Cairns), (Queensland. 



I'upe: Ko. Hii24(!1. Queensland ]\[useum, Brisbane, the above specimen ou a slide with 

 an Aiiarinis male. 



2. STETHYNIUM FLAVINOTffl new species. 



Female: — Length, U.li.l rjini. 



Black, the wings hyaline, the body marked with golden yellow as follows: Legs, the 

 whole of the large, jjeltate scutellum which bears a deep median sulcus, distal fifth of scutum, 

 tlie sclerites between scutum and scutellum, center of vertex, caudal half of each jiarapside 

 and mucli of the face. Antennae black suffused somewhat with yellow; distal funicle joint 

 a little longer than wide, subequal to 1, 2 longest, plainly longer than wide, 3 and 4 subequal, 

 slightly shorter tlmn 2: distal club joint longest. Fore wings very broad (about 36 lines of 

 very fine discal cilia), their longest marginal fringes not much more than a fifth the greatest 

 wing width. Hind wings broad, bearing about six lines of sparse discal cilia, curved, their 

 longest marginal fringes distinctly longer than those of the fore wing. Phragma and strigils 

 present. 



Male : — Tlio same Imt only the proipleura. niesopleura, ventral checks; the face and the base 

 and margins of jiliragnui are yeliow. Thorax very finely scnl[jtured. (-'luti 2-juinted. Marginal 

 cilia of fore wing longer. 



Described from one female from flesliy galls on gum, March 20. 3911 and two males 

 labelled " o2. From galls." all from the collections of the National JIuseum, Jlelbourne, 

 Victoria. 



Hahilal: Melbourne ?. Victoria. 



Tjipe: No. SyiUGJ. Queenslaud Museum. Brisl.iane. the above female {in a slide with 

 the types of pcrlatipenne. 



3. STETHYNIUM GLADIUS new species. 



Female: — Length. (i.7o mm., excluding ovipositor which is extrudeil fm' nearly half the 

 length of the abdomen and dusky black. 



Pale golden yellow, marked with black as follows: ('ephalic luilf of pronotum except 

 lateral margins and meson (two large wedgeslmped spots), cephalic half of each jiarapside, a 

 round dot on axilla cephalad, two dots ou abdomen one on each side of meson just before tip, 

 two dots on meson of same just out from base in a line longitudinally and a narrow cross-stri]ie 

 a little distad of middle accented on each side at lateral margin and obscurely, narrowly divided 

 along meson. Scutellum with three grooves, one median. Legs, scape and pedicel yellow, rest 

 tif antenna blackish. Funicle 1 shortest, barely longer tlmn wide, 3 longest, somewhat longer 

 than wide, the others subequal to each other and to the pedicel. Fore wings sleuder, their 

 longest marginal cilia aliout three fourths the greatest wing width and caudo-distad. Usual 

 for the genus with the exception of the ovipositor. Pedicel globular. Hind wings linear, 

 v,ith two complete lines of discal cilia along each nmrgin. 



From one female caught in forest. June 26, 1914. 



llabital : Gordonvale, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy3lG3, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, tlie fenmle on a slide with type 

 vinxwelU. 



4, STETHYNIUM MAXWELLI new speries. 



Female: — Length, 1.12 nun. 



.Tet black, the large mesopostscutellmu contrasting golden yellow and with two latei'al 

 grooved lines, l^egs jiale yellow, the caudal femur dusky. Fore wings lightly infuscated, 



