Al-.^TH.ILIAX UYMEXOPTEEA CUALCI DOIDEA. Xll.-^GI l:Ar I.T. -.7 



9. NEOMEGASTIGMUS AURITIBIffi .„« ^<|„.d.■. 



F.«m^;-L,.,,«th, ^.;;n „„„., ex..h,.li„« ,1„. „. ,|,„s,t,„- wl.iH, is ..xl,n,l,.,l ,„,. a length 

 ■(■i|u:il tu tliroo tcMiiths tliat (if the alMlomeii. ° 



Asrec. w,.h th,. -Ls-npt, f ;,,„„„„. ,,„t ,1,,. s.ape is n.,l,l,sh l„-o«„ at vontnU l.alf 



:nul UHK. e 1 ,s cbs „„.tly l.,„.,.,. ti.aa tl,. short podi.e! uhid> is „o lon^or than wide; fnaide 

 1 .l,st,„etly lo„^.- than u„i,., the following joints a little longer than .vide, shovteni,,: sli.hti; 



fdi^lMm ; T'"':"™ ""'■^°-'=''''™'l' ="-'^ -"'-" '-If "f the face, sides oi\u{:,Jr. 



(distal halt) and nj,per limd eoxie, with rather loars,. sil\vrv inibeseence. 



From one female caught in forest, Septemlier i. IIIH. 



Habitat: C'apeville (Peutland), Qneeusland. 



Type: No. 7/,i/ ..■..'.?..■. Qneensland Mu 

 AldimnoitKi iiiifiiitlaliprs fiirault. 



seiini. Jirishaiie. the speeinieii in alc-uhol with typ 



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TABLE TU TIIK AVSTRALIAX >S1'KC1 Ks oF S KOM EiiAKTICM IS (ilinfLT 



Fore wings without a snbstigmal sp.ot The sj.eeies Inialinus and auntibiw. 



Fore wmgs with a snlistigmal spot. 

 Wholly black-blue. 



Legs (exeept coxa' ) .•md nntennic white or nearly ((■.■indal femur a lifth> .liisky) 



lividns Ciirault.* 

 The same but femora and eoxm eom-olorous mllCHsin Girault. 



Blaek-blue, the pr.motum ( ex.-ept ean.lal margin) ;ind head orange-yellow. 

 Fuuicle joints snbipiadrate. 



Ovipositor extruded for a length e.pial to that of abdomen; legs pale .. toUaris Girault. 

 Ovipositor extruded for a length longer than that (d' the abdomen: eo.xa' and the hind 



femora l>ro»n ^;,;„, Qiraiilt. 



■Orange-yellow. 



Abdomen, ].rop,.denm and distal third of .s.ntellum j.urplisl: blark; hind legs blarkish .. 



prtiiihilHs Giranlt; see rariii.s (iir.-iiilt and rufillinrax Girault. 



(iEXiLS iri-XiASTIG.MI'S n.ilmaii. 



Synonym: XaiilliosoimiUh s Ciriiult. 



Subgener:i : \l, nasi iiiiiiiis Dalman. Bnataiiiniuna novum. Varaiin aasliiiinns novum 



and Epimi tiaaliaiiiiis iiannn. 



Siuu;Rxi-s ^r?:;GASTI(i.M^S nalman. 

 1. MEGASTIGMUS DRANCES Walker. Female. 

 Walker, l.s;i!l, |,. ,";. 

 Sji. 1. ileg. Drani-es, Keiu. Eiilvus niiiiu-fariiis. aiiliniiai niijrar ba.si fulrac. oviducttis 

 rafiinac ahdomine miilto luiiiiioroi. /xilfs fiilri. alar hmpidar. 



Fulvus, sub-nitens. seite imnetatns, fere glaber: e:ipitis vertex uiger: os flavum : oeuli et 

 ocelli rufi: antennae nigrae; artienlus 1 "'' fnlvus: tlnu-.-ix nigro per medium villains; nieta- 



• badius new variet.v. Female : — Length, 1*50 mm., excluding ovipositor. Sm.-tllcr than the type form and 

 ■t'hocolate brown, the legs white except the brown cox* and the .'^lightly enihrowni'd hind li'iinir (thi' latter some- 

 what blackish in the type form). Also, the substigmal spot is distinctly smalliT. barely larger than the sticnial 

 knob. Tegulse white. In the type form the snbstigmal marking is conspicnous and distinctly larger than tlie 

 stigmal knob. 



Reared at Gordonvale. (Queensland, with the t\pe turni trom eci-idoiuyiid galls on tea-tree leaves, 

 September 1, 1912. No tyiie. The galls were pustular, reddish, subsetitonn, sulit.-iry or in irregular groups on the 

 surface of the tohage. 



