280 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



8. MACRODONTOMERUS UNGUTTATIPENNIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 2.50 iiiin.. exchulins the ovipositor \Yhii-h is about as long as the 

 abilomeu. 



Rather dark nietallie green with coppery tinges, the abdomen coppery; tarsi, tips of 

 tibias (more of cephalic tibia) and scape straw yellow. Fore wing with a moderate-sized 

 round fuscous spot in the center of the blade (somewhat caudad of center) opposite about 

 apex of pro.ximal third of marginal vein. Head with a very fine sculpture, thickly beaded with 

 pin-punctures; thorax similarly sculptured. Propodeum subglabrous, delicately scaly, non- 

 carinate but with short ruga3 at cephalic margin between the spiracles. Segment 2 of abdomen 

 slightly incised at meson of caudal nmrgin, glabrous, the rest of the abdomen with polygonally 

 scaly sculpture, segments 3, 4 and .j also with the caudal incision (apparently obsolete, 

 indicated in outline on 3 and 4, distinct on 5). Hind femur with two distinct yet small, 

 obtuse ])imple-like teeth, the distal larger, on the distal half yet not near apex. Funiele 1 

 longest, subequal to pedicel, a little longer than wide; 2 quadrate, <3 distinctly wider than long. 

 jNlcsepimeron glabrous, with a semicircular suture dorsad of middle. 



From one female captured September 28, 1913 (H. Hacker). 



Hahitdt: Caloundra (Brisbane), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 3SS8, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag; a 

 fore and hind leg and the antenme on a slide. 



9. MACRODONTOMERUS SEMISANGUINEUS new species. 



Female: — Length. 2. in nun., ex<-lniling ovi|iositor wliich is extruded for a length equal 

 to a little more than that of the abdomen. 



Dark metallic seneous green, the wings hyaline, the propodeum blue, tlie tegulie and legs 

 lemon yellow; hind femur orange yellow; caudal two pairs of coxeb metallic green. Valves 

 of ovipositor black, whitish at extreme tip. Abdomen blood red. Antennse black, the scape 

 lemon yellow. Propodeum finely scaly; rest of thorax scaly and transversely lineolated. First 

 two or three segments of abdomen excised caudad at meson but not greatly so. Mandibles 

 trideutate. Funiele 1 longest, somewhat longer than wide, subequal to the pedicel, 6 somewhat 

 wider than long. Pubescence not conspicuous. Abiliimon scaly, Interad more or less 

 longitudinally reticulated. 



From (iiie female caught April bS, UUt {A. P, Dodd). Forest. 



Hahitut: Cloncurry, Queensland. 



Tape: No. Uii.S299, ("Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



PR()PLES10STr(iMA new genus. 



Female: — Characterized by the antenna^ which are inserted near the clypeus and are 

 12-jointed with two short ring-joints, the club 3-,iointed. Hind tibiw with two spurs, the hind 

 femora compressed but unarmed, Scutellum convex, simple. Stigmal vein not sessile, 

 moderately long. Mesepimeron not incised caudad. Extruded part of the ovipositor short, 

 not more than a third the length of the abdomen. Mandibles with four distinct teeth. Post- 

 marginal vein a little shorter than the stigmal, not more than a fifth or sixth the length of 

 the marginal which is shorter than the submarginal. Marginal fringes of fore wing very 

 short. Propodeum at the meson transverse-linear, without a median carina. Abdomen 

 normal. 



1. PROPLESIOSTIGMA UNFASCIATUS new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Ijength, 0.80 mm., excluding ovipositor. 



Dark metallic blue green, the w'ings hyaline, the scape and legs pale straw yellow 

 except intermediate and hind coxaa and proximal half or less of hind femur. Rest of antennip 



