2o2 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MCSEUM. 



is soiiieHliat I'uiler and segment 5 of ahilcnnen shorter. Tips of tibiai and the tarsi wliitish. 

 Otherwise the same. Mesojileunnn cephalad punetulate, caudodorsad subglabrous, caudo- 

 vontrad punctate. Compared with type of bicoloripes. Hind coxa sculptured in both sjiecies. 



From one female from tlie (Queensland Museum collections, reared from a gall. July 4. 

 1011 (H. Hacker). 



HahHul : Brisbane, Queensland. 



Ti/iic: Xo. II\j3245. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, tbe specimen on a tag. 



43. EURYTOMA CRESSONI new species. 



Female: — Length. 2.75 nun. 



Like the preceding but tlie jiro.ximal two thirds of scape (including the bulla) and 

 all legs reddish brown (except last two pairs of coxie and apex and mesal aspect of cephalic 

 cox£b) ; mesal aspect of middle tibiaj blackish and also the sides and venter of segments 2-4 

 of abdomen are reddish. The jiropodenm, liovvever, differs in that there is no median channel 

 or rather there is one shaped like that of tricoloripes but this is not a true channel, not 

 excavated, the surface level or plane and from the center of this ' ' channel ' ' a rather large 

 triangular area bounded by a narrow carina (apex laterad) is impunctate, coriaceous. In 

 my table runs to lincolni Girault. 



Described from one speciniiMi from same colle</tiou and labelled same as the preceding. 



Jlahitat : Brisbane, Queensland. 



Type: No. Fly3:i4G. (Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



44. EURYTOMA DUBIELLA new species. 



Female: — Length, 2.7.") mm. Abdomen from lateral aspect rounded, only a little longer 

 than wide, the petiole short. 



Agrees with the description of lincolni Girault but the abdomen and legs bright yellowish 

 brown (except coxaj; dorsum and sides of segment 2 of abdomen black, dorsum of segments 

 3 and 4; a minute dot in middle of side of abdomen a little before tip, immediate tip above 

 and sometimes meson of segments 7 and <S; a triangular black spot at proximal half of meson 

 of segment 5, its base connected with the black of segment 4 but not always present). 

 Marginal vein twice the length of the stigmal, the venation pale. The abdomen is not long 

 as' in nelsonia which has the coxse yellow'. Segment 5 of abdomen as long as 2-4 united. 

 Propodeum at meson with a broad trough-like channel. Abdomen dorsad glabrous but segment 

 5 cephalad obscurely scaly, the following segments more distinctly so. Pubescence silvery. 

 Hind tibial spurs double. Head and thorax )>nnctate, the punctures not deep. Hind coxa 

 and cephalic half of mesopleura punctate; caudal half of mesopleura dorsad glabrous, ventrad 

 subrngulose. 



Prom six females reared from miscellaneous galls from forest. 



Ilahital : (iordonvale (Cairns). (Queensland. 



Types: No. Iiy:>?i7, (Queensland Museum. Brisbane, tw-o females on a tag. 



45. EURYTOMA BICOLORIVENTRIS new species. 



Female: — Length, l.lTi mm. .MmIoimcu Iroiii lateral asjiect plainly longer than wide. 



Black, punctate, the wings hyaline; toguUe, knees, tips of tiliiie and ventral half of 

 segments 2-5 of abdomen, yellowish brown; also cephalic tibise except below knee dorsad. Vena- 

 tion black, tlie marginal vein twice the length of the stigmal, not thickened, the postmarginal 

 a little longer than the stigmal. Pedicel small, round; funicle joints subequal, much larger 

 than the pedicel, oval, shorter than club 2. Mandibles bidentate. Palpi white. Petiole of 

 abdomen a little longer than wide. Punctures of thorax large, rather shallow, uniform on 

 scutum. Propodeum punctured like the thorax, with a broad, ovate median channel whose 



