295 MEMUIIt.S OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



From oue female ca|]tm-e(l iu a forest poi'ket, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Bahitat: Kuraiida. Queensland. 



Tiipr: No. Hy3338, Qiu'en.sland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. the head on a 

 slide. 



6. NEOMEGASTIGMUS VARIUS new species. 



Female: — Length. 1.60 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded fur a length equal 

 to a little over half the abdomen. 



Like pcUoldtii.s but the propodeuin, head and first pair of legs are orange yellow, the 

 cephalic tibia! and all tarsi white. Thorax wholly orange yellow. Scape pallid. I'edicel 

 longer than any funicle joint. Funicle 1 quadrate, smallest, 3 longest, somewhat longer than 

 wide, 7 somewhat wider than long. Caudal margin of segment 2 of abdomen naked and with 

 a very narrow incision at meson, tlie others entire. Propodeum about as in petiolatiig and 

 rufithorax. Fore wing marked as in nijil}iiini.f Imt tlie marking unt as large and not so 

 deep in color. 



From one female caught iu forest, Dccendicr 1, lOl."!. 



JTahilat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Tiiiiv: No. JIyo329, Queensland Musmim, Brisbane, t!ie specimen on a tag, tlu> head on a 

 slide. 



■/. NEOMEGASTIGMUS RUFITHORAX new species. 



k little more robust than piAioUiliis; distal half of scutellum. distal half of axilla) and 

 the cephalic legs (except the white tibia*) purplish black and sides and venter of thorax. 

 Caudal edge of segment 3 of abdomen naked, not armed with minute setas as in petiolutti.s. 

 .Segment 4 of abdomen not incised. Occijiut and venter black. In both spieeies the propodeum 

 l)ears mnnerous rug* from cephalii- nuir,i;in and there are no distinct median nor lateral carina; 

 but a half complete lateral carina from caudal apex. A small, dark spot between caudal 

 margin of fore wing and the caudal end of the stigmal stripe. 



From oue female caught in forest on sand ridges near coast. May 13, 1911: (A. P. Doddl. 



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



Type: No. HySSSO, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



Th,-' black color in this sjiecies is very dee]i. 



A. NEOMEGASTIGMUS RUFITHORAX NELSONENSIS new variety. 



The same but scutellum wholly orange yellow, the caudal edge of segment 2 of abdomen 

 is armed with short seta', the body a little less robust. 



From one female caught in forest. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy:^S3], Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type 

 of the ty|>e foi'in. 



8. NEOMEGASTIGMUS HYALINUS new species. 



Fimate: — Length. l.T.'i nun., excluding llie ovipositor wliicli is extruded for a length 

 nearly equal to that of the abdomen. 



Metallic blue green, the thorax transversely lined, the wings hyaline; knees, tibia' and 

 tarsi ])ale lemon yellow; abdomen black blue except at base. Antennas black blue, the |>edi('el 

 and funicle 1 subequai, distinctly longer than wide; funicles 2 and 3 subequal, a little longer 

 tlian wide; funicles G-7 subequal, a little wider than long. Projjodeum and head densely 

 scaly, the former noncarinate. Abdomen (leru-alcly sruly except segment 2 which is incised 

 i^audad at meson (segment 3 slightly so). Scutellum densely i)olygonally staly. Otherwise 

 iiB in the other species. 



From one female, May 12, 1!>M caught in forest (A. P. Uodd). 



Habitat: Chindera, New S(nith Wales. 



Type: No. Jfy 333S, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



