34 MEMOISS OF THE QUEENSLAND MVSEVM. 



MESEUSANDALUM new geuiis. 

 Female: — Form elongate, the abdomen long and conical, distinctly longer tban the rest 

 of the body, the ovipositor exserted distinctly bnt shortly. In Ashmead 's (1904) table of 

 genera running to Eusandalum Batzburg (the middle tarsi are armed) but the antennee are 

 11-jointed with a ring-joint and a 2-jointed club, the flagellum filiform, the club not distinctly- 

 differentiated. Legs slender, the hind tibia with a single spur. Second abdominal segment 

 very slightly incised at meson of caudal margin, others entire, segment 2 a little the longest,. 

 3 distinctly the shortest, 7 nearly as long as 2. Scutum with two longitudinal impressions,, 

 incomplete from caudad. Axilla- widely separated, their inner margins regularly curved. 

 Stigmal vein subsessile, the postinarginal short but over twice the length of the stigmal, the 

 marginal vein moderately short, distinctly shorter than the submarginal, much longer than the 

 postmarginal. Face almost carinated as in the Dirrhinini. Genal suture distinct. Strigil 

 present. Lateral ocelli at extreme eephalo-lateral angles of vertex, barely separated from the 

 pyos, the latter n.iked. See the third species. 



1. MESEUSANDALUM CYANEIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 4.2n nini.. inehidiiig the ovipositor. 



Dark metallic green, the scutellum, axilla; and abdomen coppery or bronze, the venter 

 of abdomen blue. Wings hyaline. Legs and antenna? concolorous except knees and proximal 

 four tarsal joints which are wliitc. Pedicel short, a little shorter than distal club .ioint, which 

 is next shortest of the flagellum; ring-joint large; funicle 1 long and slender, 2 and 3 subequal,. 

 a little shorter than 1, somewhat over thrice longer than wide; others gradually shortening, the 

 distal club joint ovate, not much longer than wide. First tarsal joint of middle legs not half 

 the length of the same joint of hind legs, which is slender. Scrobes glabrous. Head and thorax 

 densely, finely scaly, the scutellum more finely so, nearly longitudinally lineolated. Propodeum, 

 without carina", delicately scaly. Pronotum with transverse lineolations. 



From one female taken January 7, 1914 in forest. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Ttipe: No. HyiSyi, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



2. MESEUSANDALUM STYLATUS new .species. 



Female: — Length, 0.75 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal 

 iv that of the abdomen or a little more. 



Differs from the preceding in having the abdominal stylus nearly as long as the 

 extruded portion of ovipositor, the hind tibia bears two spurs, segment 2 of abdomen has a 

 slight incision at caudal meson and is as long as or a little longer than 3, the stigmal and 

 postmarginal veins are a little longer, the color is purplish, the fore wLngs stained more 

 especially longitudinally along the middle out to apex of venation, the tibise are reddish browm 

 except cephalic ones just below knees, the postmarginal vein is over twice the length of the- 

 stigmal, the tarsi brown; head and thorax densely finely punctate including a contrasting 

 semicircular area at caudal meson of propodeum and which is more than half the length of that 

 region at the meson; this area is deeply sutured from the transverse, subglabrous mesal portion of 

 the propodeum and appears to belong to the abdomen. Spiracle large, round, with a curved 

 sulcus just mesad of it; no carina; on propodeum. Segments 2 and 3 of abdomen glabrous, the 

 following transversely, finely wrinkled, the last (7) and the stylus punctate like the thorax,, 

 the stylus with a .sharp median carina. Caudal margin of pronotum conically produced distadj 

 subacute at apex. Funicle 1 as long as the scape, four times tlie length of the distal antenna! 

 joint which is much shorter than the joint preceding it. 



From one female caught on a tree trunk, 2-9-13 (H. Hacker). 



Habitat: Enoggera (Brisbane), Queensland. 



Type: No. HygS95, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female minuticn-mouuted ;. 

 middle and hind legs and an antenna on a slide. 



