308 MEiWlIfS OF THE QUF.EX.SLAyD ilUSEUM. 



From many female specimens in the Queeuslaud Museum colleetious labelled ' ' Keaiedi 

 from gall No. 26, emerged May, 1914, H. Hacker. 



llabitai : Brisbane, Queensland. 



Types: No. Hy C'7o7, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three females on a tag. 



The male is the same but the cheeks below the eyes are black and the entire thorax except 

 lateral margin of scutum and scutellimi narrowly, caudal margin of pronotum and lateral margin 

 of 2)arapsides; abdomen black except meson of venter and the yellow stripe at base above. 



PERILAMPELLA new genus of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 

 Differs from Ci"Iocyh<iloicles Girault in having the axillK distinctly separated, the 

 niargiual vein longer (about five times its own width, about half the length of the sub- 

 marginal or somewhat less), the ring-joints quadrate or longer tlian wide and the abdomen less 

 flattened. The axillfc mesad meet the caudal end of each parapsidal furrow. Wings large. 

 Marginal vein linear. 



1. PERIL AMPEILA FLAMMEITHORAX new species. = 



Female: — Length, 4 mm. 



Differs from Epiperilampii.'i Girault in having the postmargiual vein distinctly longer 

 than the stigmal and the marginal vein longer, over a third the length of the submarginal. With 

 the habitus of Perilampoides. Flaming red, the jjropodeum, abdomen and hind coxsa jet black, 

 also the scape above and the funiele and club. Fore wings (also hind wings) deep smoky 

 brown, clearer proximad of the bend of the submarginal vein. Axilla? distinctly separated 

 inwardly but not far apart (within the apex of parapsidal furrows). Marginal vein linear, 

 about six times longer than wide (in Epipcrilampus not thrice and it is thickened). Mandibles 

 strong, bidentate, the second tooth broad, semicircularlj' emarginate along apex. First ring- 

 joint a little longer than wide, the second large but wider than long; six funiele joints, the first 

 longest, the distal ones plainly wider than long, 1 longer than wide; pedicel as long as funiele 1; 

 club with an apparent fourth joint. 



From two females from the coUectitms of the National Museum of Victoria, labelled 

 ".59. Rose Bay. N.S.W. Froggatt, 1510-91. ' ' 



Habitat: New South Wales. 



Types: In the National Museum. ^Melbourne, the above specimens on separate tags, a 

 head on a slide. 



EUPERILAMI'OIDES new genus. 



Female: — Apjjarently differs from Euperilampus Walker in having the seutellum long 

 .■lud projecting oyer the abdomen but not forming a long, stout spine, merely triangular and 

 obtusely ])oiuted at apex, there armed with a short entire jilate and reaching not half way to 

 apex of the abdomen. .Mso. the antenna) are 13-jointed with one ring-joint, the scape rather 

 greatlj' flattened and (iir\ed. Otherwise as in PerUninpus. The margins of the flat scape are 

 parallel yet cuned. 



1. EUPERILAMPOIDES SCUTELLATUS new .species. Genotype. 



E'emale: — Length, 3.70 nmi. 



Black with slight metallic reflections, the wings hyaline, the postmarginal vein longer 

 than the marginal which is somewhat longer than the stigmal. Antennas orange yellow, the 

 scape, distal two joints and upper pedicel black, the Latter much smaller than the funiele 



' Mr. A. P. Dodd sjiggests, from seeing specimens in Mr. Froggatt's collection, tliat this is a species described by 

 tlie latter as a Ci/nlps but tlie whole miitter is too indefinite and 1 jireter to describe the species in its proper ])lace 

 llr. Froggatt c.in tlien establish his species. Mayr had already informed liim, I understand, of its relatioushij).- 

 i^fistal^es are often excusable but uncorrected known ones sliould never be so. 



