22 MEMOISa OF THE QUEENSLAND MVSEVM. 



8. ANASTATUS BLATTmiFURAX new species 



Female: — Length, 3 mm. 



Dark metallic blue, the abdomen with a white band at apex of proximal fourth; tip 

 of valves of ovipositor white, the valves not exserted. Legs and antennaj coneolorous; antennse 

 13-jointed with one ring-joint which is a little wider than long; funicle 1 subequal to 2 and 3 

 and longest, 7 a little wider than long, less than half the length of 1 which is much longer 

 than the pedicel. Hind tibiie with but one spur, the middle tibise with black teeth, the front 

 femur somewhat swollen. Fore wings embrowned slightly at immediate base and distinctly 

 from tlie bend of submarginal vein to apex, the infuscation interrupted by a rather narrow 

 white curved transverse stripe from about a little distad of the middle of the marginal vein 

 and faded around apex. Thorax very finely scaly. Postmarginal vein much longer than the 

 stigmal. Cephalic half of mesopleurum liairy. 



Male: — A third smaller and the tibia) of cephalic legs are pale. The mesopleura bear 

 a femoral furrow, the wings are hyaline, the scutum convex and with complete parapsidal 

 furrows. Antenna3 thick, cylindrical, 11 -jointed, one transverse-linear ring-joint, the club 

 solid, the first funicle joint a little longer than wide, as long as the scape without its bulla, 

 the scajje short. 



Described from four males, twelve females labelled ' " 13. Bred from ootlieca of cock- 

 roach from Queensland (on banana). F. P. Sjiry. 27-1-05.'' 



Habitat: Queensland. 



Types: No. Hy2S69, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male, three females on a tag. 



Also four females reared from cockroach eggs in the jungle, Gordonvale, October, 1913 

 (A. V. Dodd) and one female,. Stradbroke Island, 5-12-1913 (H. Hacker). 



This species is closely allied with pipninntti Perkins but the very shortly projecting pai't 

 of the ovipositor is pure white, tlie cross-band of the fore wing appears to be distinctly 

 narrower, the face and scutum do not bear conspicuous white pubescence, there is only one hind 

 tibia] spur, the fore wing is embrowned under the proximal half of submarginal vein, clear 

 from margin to margin under distal half and the antenmc appear different, since funicle 1 is 

 subequal to 2 and 3 (in piintiiculi as figured 1 is plainly louger than 2, the latter a little longer 

 than 3). The host is also different. 



9. ANASTATUS INSULARIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.80 mm., exchidiug extruded portion of ovijiositor which is about a 

 third tlie length of the abdomen. 



Dark metallic purple, the wings a little yellowish, the legs coneolorous except tarsi, 

 middle tibia) except a dusky band below knee and distal half of other tibiie which together 

 vvitli a band round abdomen just out from base, the pedicel and first two funicle joints, are white. 

 Extruded valves of ovipositor black. Funicle 1 (piadrate, small, 2 longest, a little longer than 

 the pedicel, 3 subequal to pedicel. 8 subquadrate, large. Scajie obclavate. Hind tibiee with 

 two spurs, one very short. Thorax with obsc\ire. fine scaliness; caudal half or more of scutum 

 glabrous. Teeth on middle tibia' white. Fore wings rather slender, the discal cilia very fiue 

 and dense; stigmal vein much shorter than the postmarginal, the marginal vein very long, 

 longer than submarginal. Abdomen scaly. Funicle 2 nearly twice longer than wide. 



From one female caught in forest, March 12, 1912. 



Habitat: Thursday Island, Torres Strait. 



Type: No. Ey3870, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a slide. 



Also, a female from Cooktovvn, Queensland, in March. 



10. ANASTATUS TRICOLOR new species. 



Friiuilr: — Length. 3 mm., cxiliisive of ovipositor which is extruded for a length nearly 

 ripuil to two thirds that of the abdomen. 



