AUSTEALIAX HYMENOPTEJU CIl ALCIDOIDEA. XII.—GIKAULT. 2^Jl 



6. PODAGRION PAX (iirault. Female. 



Length, 3.10 mm., exclusive of ovipositor, wliicli is longer. 



Like beneficium Girault but the seven teeth of the posterior femora different; thus teeth 

 4 and 5 are nearly equal, 4 a little longer, tooth 2 is smallest, while ]. .'!, (j and 7 are longest, 

 ] acutely, 3 obtusely, conical; all of the teeth distinct. And the segmentation of the antenna 

 is different, the penultimate funicle joint longer than wide, the ultimate subquadrate, the 

 first two funicle joints distinctly more than a fourth longer than wide, nearly twice longer than 

 wide, while joint 3 is subequal to them. The club is large as in sjiecies of PoUjiirma. Tvpe 

 re-examined. Corrected description. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. From mantid eggs, forest, A])ril 27, l!li:!. 



Type: No. }Iy3SlS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, tlie female on a tag, the head and a 

 caudal leg on a slide. 



7. PODAGRION PAVO new species. 



Female: — Length. I!. 20 mm., excluding the exserted part of the ovipositor which is about 

 tlie same length. 



Dark metallic green, the propodeum, hind coxae and abdomen bluish, the wings hyaline; 

 scape, middle of funicle, venter of abdomen, tibia;, tarsi, trochanters and knees brownish 

 yellow; rest of antenna; black or nearly. Propodeum with a distinct V-shaped carina whose 

 apex is at base and a carina laterad of the spiracle. Club somewhat enlarged; joints 1 and 2 

 of funicle subequal, each shorter than the pedicel, a little longer than wide; distal funicle joint 

 over twice wider than long; ring-joint distinct. Hind femur with six teeth — large, small, large, 

 large, large, small from proximad; teeth 3 and 4 longest, subequal. Body with the usual 

 sculpture, the scutellum and axilte smoother, scaly, the scutellum smoorh at apex. Hind fenuir, 

 mesal aspect, reddish yellow. 



Male: — Length about the same. 



Totally ditferent in color, very brilliant. Briglit imHallic green, the antenna), legs and 

 abdomen (orange) bright yellow; a large oval spot at base of hind coxa laterad and distal 

 fourth or more of abdomen above metallic green. Hind tibiie reddish brown, black centrally. 

 Hind fenuir with tliree large teeth. Antenuto 13-jointed, slenderer, the funi(de joints all 

 siiljquadrate after the first two which are as in the feui.-ile. 



Described from two males, four females on a card labelled ' ' 22. Bred from eggcase of 

 Mantis, Tiiwdera atistraliana Leacli. 22 ^^ 2 (J, l"i-3-1903. .7. A. K." 



Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. 



Tiipcs: The above specimens; male and feni.Hle antenme ami a female hind leg on a slide. 

 Jn the National Museum, Melbourne. 



The species derives its name from the gaudy culours nf tlie male. The liest is the 

 common Teiwdera uiistralaaiii' of Leach. 



Later, four females were found on a card in tlie same- colle.'tion labelled ■' SS. March 

 19, 1903, Melb. " and reared from the same host. The four hind femora cif the males showed 

 no variation in the number of teeth and nniie was fc.un.l in the feni.-ile specimens except slight 

 differences in size. 



8. PODAGRION GROTU new species. 



Female: — Length. ."..."'lO nun., excluding the vitv long (ivipnsiter which is over twice the 

 length of the body. 



Distinguished from tlie other Australian species by the extremely long ovipositor. From 

 benefieium, which it resembles in ci.lor. it differs in having the seventh tooth of the hind femur 

 large, 6 and 7 shortest and subequal, cmitluent broadly at base; also the median carina of the 

 propodeum does not branch until near the apex of that region ((U- raudad) : the distal two 

 funicle joints are distinctlv longer than wide and the first funicle joint is very much longer 

 than the pedicel, joints 1-5 subequal, longest. Distal club joint distinctly shorter than the 

 proximal. From washiiuitoni, it may be distinguished by the forKing of the med.au carina 



