25G MEMOIRS OF THE QVEENSLAXD MVSJUUM. 



stigmal. the latter slightly shorter than the jiostmarginal. Segmeut 5 of abdomen oeeupying: 

 not quite lialf the surface, much longer than 4. Propodeum with a median channel. Meso- 

 plenrum very finely sculptured. 



From one female caught in forest, September 30, 1914. 



Habitat : Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Tiipe: No. Hyo3o7, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen in alcohol with typfr 

 of E. lunrthornei Girault. 



55. EURYTOMA SOROR new species. 



Like qucensUincUnsis but the abilomeii lilack above at base only on segments 2 and o. 

 the venation is very pale yellow, the antennae are yellow except scape at tip above, pedicel 

 and first two or three funicle joints; the hind coxa; are all yellow-brown like the legs; axillse 

 black; lower half of occiput yellow. Funicle 1 a little wider than long, the following joints 

 still shorter. Otherwise ap]iarently the same. Marginal vein about twice longer than wide. 

 Hind tibial spurs double. 



From one female caught in forest, September i7. 1914. 



Hahiliit: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Type: Xo. EyS-^.'iS, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen in alcohol with tyjie 

 of preceding. 



My genus Bephratilla was founded on the length of the first funicle joint in relation 

 to the scape (two thirds or more the length of the scape), a character used in Ashmead's table 

 but I found later that the joint in question varies very much and is not a true generic 

 differential. The original description of pyrrhocerus Crawford was inadvertently omitted but 

 the place of the species is indicated in the table of species. The species cleUindi Cameron 

 should more properly be referred to Xanihosnma Ashmead but perhaps this is not a valid genus 

 being founded on rather variable sculptural ]ieculiarities. This genus is really an enormous 

 one. 



TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF EURYTOMA ILLIGEE. 



Females. 

 All the species described by me have a 2-jointed club, except picnx which has three 

 distinct apparent joints and tihiiormiclani which has a solid club. Most of my types have 

 been reexamined. 



I. Yellowish species. Funicle 1 long (except xantJierelhi). the marginal vein black and 

 thickened. Uniformly punctate on dorsal thorax. 

 Yellow; abdominal petiole, base of abdomen dorsad along meson for a short distance 

 (proximal third) and tip of ovipositor valves dark fuscous; venation black, the 

 nuirginal vein nearly twice the length of the stigmal. Propodeimi with a median 

 channel. Petiole of abdomen over twice longer than wide. The median stripe of 

 abdomen forms two rather large triangular areas like nodes. Funicle 1 not quite half 

 the length of the scape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xaiitliereUa Girault. 



Yellow orange; dorsum of abdomen with four conspicuous cross-stripes of black, the fourth 

 bow-shaped and caudad of it a very short transverse black dash ; oeellar area black. 

 Propodeum concave, at base with a short groove. Pedicel black dorsad. Funicle 1 two- 

 thirds the length of the scape (excluding bulla). Abdomen dorsad not concave (lateral 

 aspect) .. iiyinpha Girault; .'-'ee mtiltipuiictum Girault. 



The same but the centre of vertex, upjier occiput, median line of jironotum mesad, somewhat 

 over cephalic third of scutum except lateral margins, the meso-caudal and meso- 

 ccplialie corners of each parapside, the axilla;, caudal and cephalic margins of seutellum 

 rather broadlj' and the meson of propodeum broadly black. Otherwise as in nymphn. 

 The scutum with an inverted triangular spot at apex mesad connecting narrowly along 

 meson with the black cephalad . . . . piilchra Girault. 



