20 MICMOIUH OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



depressed at jiroximal two thirds and with a transverse subbasal white band, the three segmeuts 

 following this subequal. Ovipositor barely esserted. Eyes probably bare. Funiele 1 longest, 

 over twice its own width and longer than the pedicel. 



IJuhitiit : Bnndaberg, Qneensland. Parasitic njion Pipuiuiilus ciin raxcciix. 



Ti/pc: (Juery. 



2. ANASTATUS NIGRIPURPUREUS (Girault). Female. Genotype of Ooderdloides Girault. 



Length, 3.60 mm. Bluish black, the head and thorax deep blue; tip of ovipositor valves, 

 scape and tarsi whitish; trochanters and tips of tibia' white. Fore wings lightly stained from 

 the base of the marginal vein to apex. Distal two funiele joints wider than long. Stigmal 

 and postniarginal veins subecjual, moderate in length. Funiele 2 long, subequal to the pedicel, 

 1 subquadrate, narroAV. Valves of ovipositor slightly extruded. Hind tibial spur single. 

 Cephalic femur somewhat swollen, emarginate ventrad near apex. Sciitellum declivous. 



Uahital : Cairns District, Queensland. 



Type: No. 1. 127S. South Australian Museum, Ailelaide. 



3. ANASTATUS PAX (Girault). Female. 



Ouilenlloides pax Cxirault. 



Length, 4.111 mm. Ditt'ers from nigripurpureus in that the abdomen is more depressed 



and somewhat longer, the valves of the ovipositor exserted somewhat farther and wholly black,. 



the scutellum is not declivous and the stigmal vein is slightly shorter, straighter and stouter. 



Scutelhim wedge-shaped, the narrow end cephalad. 



Hdiitat: Mount Tambourine, Queensland. » 



Tjipc: Xo. 7. 127S. South Australian Museiuu, Adelaide. 



4. ANASTATUS SPLENDIDUS (Girault). Female. 

 Ooilirilliiiilt.s sphuitidiia Girault. 



Length, .'^1 mm. Brilliant metallic blue-green with purjjlish reflections, the abdomen and 

 mesopleuruni cojipery, the scajie metallic blue, the antenna; black, the legs concolorous, the tips 

 of tibia; and tarsi whitish; extruded portion of ovipositor as long as in pax, whitish, its distal 

 third black. Vore wings with a distinct dusky blotch from the marginal and postniarginal veins 

 and slightly beyond (distad), the apex and rest hyaline; the blotch disappears (or nearly) 

 two thirds the way acro.ss to the caudal margin, so it is rectangular but irregularly so. Abdomen 

 shaped as in jiiij-. 



Otherwise as in nigripurpaniis excej)t that the venation and scutellum dift'er a little. 



Hahildt: Lawson, New Soutli Wales. 



Typi : No. 1.1271, South Australian Museum, .\delaide. 



5. ANASTATUS COLEOPTERORUM (Girault). Female. 

 Ciilosottr colfopterorum Girault. 

 Length, 4 mm. Metallic blue-black, the wings hyaline, the face with slight metallic 

 green; antenna and legs black, the tarsi brownish. Densely, finely punctate. Funiele 1 longer 

 than wide, all the funiele joints shorter than the pedicel, 3 and 4 longest, 2 subcpiadrate, slightly 

 shorter than 3 ; the distal joint wider than long. Postniarginal and stigmal veins rather long, 

 subequal, the stigmal curved, not half the length of the marginal. Caudal tibiie with two short 

 spurs; cephalic femora somewhat bent, all the legs normal. Abdomen depressed, the ovipositor 

 not exserted. 



Habitat: llobart, Tasmania. Reared from wood. 

 Type: No. I. 1276, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 



