ALSTh-ALIAX IirMEXOPTEKA CIIALCIDOWEA. VII.—GIh'AULT. 23 



With the same striking ooloration as Ptiroodt-rilla fiin-ttlionix Girault aud DodU an.l tho 

 same as that species except that the wiugs are iierfeet, the ovipositor distinctly exirudc.a, the 

 scape swoDpm at liase and dark metallic green along the proximal half, the rest of it, the pedicel 

 and fiinicle 1 reddish yellow, fnnicles 2-5 silvery white; rest of antenna black; scape plainly 

 obclavate. Also, the silvery white band aronnd the base of abdomen occupies a third of the 

 surface (a fourtli in flavithora.r ; in both species within this band are two rather small eye-spots 

 of metallic purple, one on each side of meson near base). A little over proximal third and the 

 tip of ovipositor valves metallic purple, the long intervening part honey yeUow. Pronotum 

 cephalad with some jnirple. Funicle 1 a little longer than wide; 2 longest, somewhat over 

 thri(?e longer than wide, 3 and -i subeciual. each sliglitly shorter than 2, each distinctly longer 

 than the pedicel, 5 subequal to the pedicel, S a little longer than wide. Club distinctly much 

 shorter than the scape. Hind co.xaj suflfused with purple. Postmarginal vein slightly longer 

 than the stigmal. Immediate base of fore wing and a rather broad cross-stripe from a little 

 over proximal third of marginal vein brownisli; a broader cross-strijie from distal fourth of 

 marginal aud all of submarginal, sooty black; the rather narrow hyaline band between the 

 two cross-stripes crescentic; the second, black cm^s stripe bulges convoxly proximad and laterad. 

 Marginal vein miu-h longer than the submarginal. ilind coxa suffused with purplish. Caudal 

 margins of segments 'l-o of abdomen incised at meson. Abdomen transversely scaly; seuteUum 

 and axilla! very finely longitudinally lined but at distal third tlie former transversely scaly; 

 scutum glabrous except the cephalic triangular portion which is densely scaly reticulate (this 

 triangular portion is minute in flnrithora.r). Vertex with a broad purple stripe along the 

 meson. Sides of occiput finely lined; face and vertex polished, lower face mesad of genal 

 suture with scattered thimble punctures. Otherwise as in farithorax. 



From one female taken by sweeping in .iungle, March ], 1914. 



Udhitat : Uordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: Xo. By 2S71, Queensland ^luscuni. Ilrisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



11. ANASTATUS BENTHAMI new species. 



Ftnuile: — Length, 2 nun., excluding ovijiositor wliicli is extruded for somewhat less than 

 a tliird the length of the abdomen. 



Like nplcii(li<liis except that the middle of the ovipositor (extruded portion) is yellowish 

 white, black at Viase and tip, the ajiical black the longer of the two. Axilla- moderately widely 

 separated. Abdomen with a scaly sculpture, tjie lateral ocelli f.-ir from the eyes. Second 

 abdominal segment incised at caudal meson. Distal two funicle .joints ipiadrate. Scutum with 

 the same pubescence. Not compared. 



From two females labelled "Brisbane, lOS-l",. II. Hacker" and one female labelled 

 "Brisbane, October, 191], H. Hacker." 



Habitat: Brisbane. Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy3S"i. (Queensland Musciuii. lirisliaiie, the three females on tags (thref 

 ]iins). 



Also one female on a slide caught on flowers of Backni. .\pril 22, 1913, H. Hacker. 



12. ANASTATUS RACINEI new species. 



Vt'mali : — Lengtli, 2.7.j mm. 



Dark metallic green and agreeing with the description of lilnllidifurux but the scape 

 rufous, the white a]iex of valves of ovipositor just extruded beyond tip of abdomen and the 

 fore wing pattern differs in that the somewhat curved hyaline band from the marginal vein is 

 distinctly (twice) broader, the apex much clearer, the apical subhyaline portion nearly as broad 

 as the band from the marginal vein. The cephalic third of mesopleura is pubescent. Thorax 

 densely finely si-aly-pnnctate. tlie pronotum finely transversely lined, the iiroiiodeum and 



