240 MEMOISS OF THE Ql'EEXSLANV :\ll'iiJiUM. 



wings liyaliut'. costal vein yellow, marginal, stignial and postniarginal veins brown-black, the _ 

 latter subpctiolate. ending in a large rounded stigma ivitli an umms. 



A'crtex of liead and thorax above clothed with u rutVins jailiescence. tluit on the face, 

 sides of thorax and nietapleura white or silvery white. 



Fnnicle 5-jointed, the joints tinted and a little wider tliaii long. .Sides of tliorax and 

 parapsides hnxidly along sutures opaque aiul coriaceous. Marginal and postniarginal veins 

 about of an equal length but the former stout, the latter acuminate; stigmal vein very 

 short, ending in a large rounded stigma as in Meiiastigmus, with an uncus. Abdomen ovate 

 and except segments (i and 7, .snn)oth. highly jjolishcd; the petiole which is hardly longer than 

 thick and segments li and 7 finely rugulose or shagreened; fourth body segment very long, 

 occupying fully half the whole s;irf:u-e of the abdimien. 



The niah' nn>asnres from li to l!. t mm. and agrei s with the fem-ile except in its antennal 

 and abdominal characters; joints of fuuicle excised and petiolate at apex, the Ijasal piortion 

 of the joints with whorled hairs; liasal ]iart of first joint nearly twice as long as thick, basal 

 jiart of the following being quadrate or nearly so; abdomen with petiole four times as long 

 as thick, shagreened and with a grooved line down centre; liody subglobose, segments 

 snbequal ; hind coxto oi)aque, coriaceous. 



Habitat: Uralla, New South Wales. From galls on Eucalyptus. 



Ti/iir: No. -iSS-f. United States National Museum, Washington, D.O., T'.S.A. 



7. EURYTOMA BXNOTATA .Vsluuead. Female. 



Length, 3.5 nun. to .j mm. 



Black, clothed with a whitish pubescence; pronotum with two oblong oval yellow spots. 

 one on each anterior angle and both distinctly visible from above; scape of antenna), pedicel 

 at apex and legs except coxtc and a blotch on the middle of femora above, pale ferruginous; 

 rest of antenna) and the coxfe black. Wings hyaline, venation brown, the marginal vein a 

 little longer than the postniarginal ; stigmal vein normal, very nearly as long as the 

 postmargiual. 



Head and thorax closely umbilicately imnctate; funiide joints a little longer than thick; 

 abdomen conic-ovate, subsessile, a little longer than lieail and thorax united, acutely pointed 

 at apex, the sides of segments -t to 7 ciliate with white hairs, tlie fourth segment and beyond 

 very delicately shagreened at sides. 



Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. From galls on the turpentine tree. 



Tt/i>e: No. 4SSj. United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 



8. EURYTOMA BRACHYSCELIDIS Cameron, ilale aii<l female. 



" Black, covered with whitish jiubescence; trochanters, apex of femora, tibia! and tarsi 

 jiale testaceous, oral region and almost the upper half of the ]>ropleunu rufo-testaceous, under 

 side of flagelluni fuscous; the latter densely covered witli a microscopic white Jiile; w'ings 

 hyaline, nervures dark fuscous. The male has the face, chqunis, the lower orbits and the malar 

 Space testaceous. ^^ 2, h'ugtli, 1.5 — 2.5 mm. 



Stowell, A'ictoria; bred from coccid (apiomorpha) galls on Eucalyiitns sp. (U. Daly). 



Antenna) in female short, thick, the second joint twice longer than wide, becoming 

 gradually widened towards the apex; scape distinctly narrower than it, the other joints wider 

 than it is long, the last conical, the narrowed jiarts of the joints in the male testaceous; 

 the hairs are stiff and longer than the joints. Marginal nervure as long as the postniarginal 

 and thicker than it; stigmal shorter than the latter, the lower thickened {lart semicircular, 

 emitting a branch from the apical basal part. I'arajjsidal furrows shallow but distinct. 

 Abdomen smooth ami shining, the apical segments fringed with white hair. 



This is probaVily a variable species. The face in the female may be broadly testaceous 

 bcdow. The fourth abdominal segment occupies the grea^er part of the abdomen. The 

 testaceous mark on the iironotuni varies in size; it is not visible from above. The tarsi may 



