294 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



2. PACHYTOMOIDES QUEENSLANDICA C4iraiilt. Female. 



Length, 4 mm., not including the ovipositor which is fully as long as the body. 



At once differing from minis in bearing eight teeth along the posterior femur of nhicli 

 the first, fourth, sixth and seventh are largest, the eighth with a very broad base, its distal 

 side a long incline; teeth 2 and 5 subequal, 3 a little shorter, all distinct. Antennje yellow- 

 brown, the club dark. Propodeum concolorous; first two legs wholly honey yellow, the posterior 

 one purplish black, except tarsi, tips of tibijc and the knees. Abdomen honey yellow except 

 above just at base and along distal half ; thus in general encircled by a broad band of 

 yellow; valves of ovipositor black. Propodeum umbilico-rugoso-punetate, without carina} 

 dorsad, much rougher than the dense, fine punctation of the rest of the thorax. Teeth of 

 mandibles fine, three of them distinct. Distal three funicle joints wider than long, the club a.< 

 long as the funicle. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, May S, 1913. 



Type: No. Sy 3SSS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide 

 with the head and a hind femur. 



3. PACHYTOMOIDES FRATER new species. 



Female: — Length. 3.8.5 mm., excluding tlie ovipositor which is a little longer than the 

 body. 



Very similar to iiiici/.s but at once distinguished from that species by bearing on the 

 abdomen at apex of proximal two thirds a distinct black, rather narrow encircling band 

 (except across venter; in mirvs there is a large crescent-shaped spot of black in the lateral 

 aspect at about the same distance from base). Also, the caudal femur bears but seven teeth, 

 the first, sixth and seventh largest, 6 longest, columnar, 3 smallest, 2 next so, none paired. 

 The distal two funicle joints are wider than long, joints 2 and 3 longest, subequal, 4 only 

 a little shorter than 3 ; flagellum brown suffused with dusky, the club jet black. Otherwise 

 about as in 7nirus. Compared witli typo of latter. 



From one female caught in forest on sand-ridges near coast. May 8, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. 



Type: No. Hy3333, Queensland Miisouni. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; flagelhim 

 and a caudal femur on a slide. 



MP:(i.\STl(;MlX^. 



There is an undescribed genus in tliis group like Megastigmiis but the male antenna? 

 are very slender and with whorls of hairs. I was unable to obtain the female with certainty. 

 Most of the genera bear, perhaps, two ring-joints, the first very short. 



Genus NEOMEGASTIGMUS Girault. 



This genus is like Spilometjastifjinu.s Cameron but the mandibles tridentate, the antenna^ 

 13jointed, the club distinctly 'S-jointed; one large ring-joint. Fore wings usually witli a 

 black spot appended from the stigmal vein. Sc\itelluni simple, uniforndy sculptured. 



1. NEOMEGASTIGMUS LIVIDUS new species. Female. Genotj-pe. 



Length, 2 mm., e.xc hiding ovipdsitnr wliich is extruded for a length somewhat over 

 that of the abdomen. 



Black-blue, the legs (except the concolorous coxa;) and the tegulse yellowish w'hite, the 

 antcnnie similarly colored. 'VVings hyaline, the stigma darker than the spot beneath it. 

 Thorax scaly but the lines more or less transverse. Valves of ovipositor brown-black. 

 Propodeum rugulose, without a median carina. Posterior coxa; sculptured like the thorax. 



