4 • MEMOIBS OF THE QVEEXSLAXD MCSEUM. 



;vt base, the middle one surrounded by a wide furrow which is widest at the ajiex where it 

 is transverse. Seutelluni pyriform, roundly narrowed to a blunt point cephalad. An irregular 

 black spot near apex of middle femur, a more distinct line or band near base of middle tibiffl 

 and a broad black line on either side of the basal half of hind femur; hind tibis infuscated 

 at base. Allied with Eupdmus antipoda Ashmead. 



Habitat: Boggabri, New South Wales. Associated with the fruit of grasses. January. 



Types: Query. 



7. EUPELMUS BURMEISTERI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.65 nnn., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a third the 

 length of the abdomen. 



Dark metallic green, the first funicle joint wliite. tlie wings hyaline; not quite distal 

 two thirds of extruded valves of ovipositor soiled white. Thorax and abdomen finely scaly. 

 Funicle 2 a little wider than long, 4 longest yet scarcely longer than wide. AntenniB and coxa; 

 eoncolorous. Legs golden yellow; middle femur with a dusky band just proximad of knee; 

 middle tibia with one just distad of knee (both separated from the knee, however). First femur 

 centrally washed with metallic green. Axilla; not approximate yet not much separated. >fo 

 conspicuous pubescence on thorax. Teeth on middle tarsi not black. Hind tibial spur single. 

 First femur simple. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal. Hind femur proximad sub- 

 metallic. Ovipositor valves slightly black at tip. 



Described from two females on slides in the collections of the Queensland Museum, 

 Brisbane, Labelled "Among grass and herbage, March 29. April 8, 1913. II. Hacker." 



Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Forest. 



Types: No. Hy £830, Queensland Museum, Brisliane, a female on a slide. 



Dedicated to Hermann Burmeister. 



8. EUPELMUS RENANI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1 miri., cxchuling cxtiuilcd juu-tion of ovipositor which is only one 

 tliird the length of the abdomen. 



Agrees with the description of Anastatus pax (Girault) but much smaller and funicle 2 

 is short, smaller than the pedicel, about a third of its length, the pedicel much longer than any 

 of the funicle joints of which 4 is largest, a little longer than wide. Moreover, the color is 

 •dark metallic green, the extruded valves of ovipositor, the antennm and legs eoncolorous. Body 

 finely scaly. Axillae distinctly separated, but not much. Fore wing lightly infuscated to apex 

 from about the middle of the marginal vein. 



From one female caught by sweeping Leptospermum, Ajiril 16, 191.3 (H. Hacker). 



Habitat : Brisbane, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2831, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the body (minus wings) on a tag, 

 the head on a slide. 



Dedicated to Ernest Renan. 



, 9. EUPELMUS MONTAIGNEI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.5(1 mm., exclusive ut ovijiusitor whose extruded jiortion is a third the 

 length of the abdomen. 



Similar to masini but the antenna? wholly coucolorous, the intermediate femur and tibia 

 immaculate, the first femur only very lightly washed with metallic, the legs pale lemon yellow 

 except coxa) and lightly, cephalic femur. Postmarginal and stigmal veins shorter, subequal. 

 Distal fourth of ovipositor distinctly black, longer than the black proximal portion. Meso- 

 ]ilciirum sulfused with brownisli. Body finely scaly. Teeth on middle tarsi black. 



