298 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



tliorux nigev: abdomen laeve nitens: segmenta basi nigra: oviduetus fulvus: vaginae nigi-ae. 

 hirtae, abdomine multo longiores: pedes fulvi; coxae piceae; tarsi apice fusci; metafemora 

 subtus pieeo maculata: alae limpidae; squaiuulae fulvae; uervi fusci, basi pallidiores; stigma 

 piccmn, rotundum, sat magnum. (Corp. long, lin, IJ; lin. 2J.) " 



lliihiliit: Ilobart, Tasmania. 



Tyiie: Probaldy in tlie Xatiiral History Mui^eum, London. 



2. MEGASTIGMUS BORUS Walker. Female. 

 Walker, ls;',9, pp. .5-6. 



' ' Sp. 2. Meg. Bonis. Fern. Flavus fulvo et piceo varius, antennae piceae iasi fulvae, 

 mctaUwraxi niger, oviducius vaginae abdomine non longiores, pedes flavi, alae limpidae. 



Flavus, sub-nitens, scite punctatus, fere glaber: caput postice nigrum; vertex fulvus: 

 oeuli et ocelli rufi: antennae piceae; articulus 1'" fuivus: thoracis segmentorum disci fulvi; 

 suturae piceae: metatborax niger: abdomen laeve, nitens; discus piceus, fulvo-fasciatus: 

 oviduetus fulvus; vaginae nigrae, hirtae, abdomine non longiores: pedes flavi; tarsi apice fusci: 

 alae limpidae; squanuilae flavae; nervi fusci, basi pallidiores; stigma piceum, rotundum, sat 

 magiuim. (Corp. long. lin. IJ; alar. lin. 21.) '' 



Ilahitat: Hobart, Tasmania. 



Type: Probably in the Natural History Museum, London. 



3. MEGASTIGMUS lAMENUS Walker. Female. 

 Walker, ISoi), p. tj. 



" Sp. 3. Meg. lamenus. Fern. Fulvus piceo varius, antennae piceae 6o,st fulvae, oviduetus 

 vaginae corporis longiludine, pedes fnlvA, alae limpidae. 



Fulvus, subnitens, scite punctatus, fere glaber: oculi et ocelli rufi: antenna; piceae, basi 

 fulvae: thoracis segmentorum snturae piceae: abdominis discus piceo faseiatus: oviduetus 

 fulvus; vaginae nigrae, hirtae, corporis longitudine: pedes fulvi; tarsi apice fusci: alae 

 limpidae; squamulae fulvae; nervi fulvi; stignia piceum, rotuiidiiiii. inaf;;num. (Corp. long, 

 lin. 1 ; alar. lin. IJ.) ' ' 



Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. 



Type: Probably in the Natural History Museum, London. 



Aslimead (1900) makes the following statement concerning this sjiecies: " Hab. — 

 Sydney-, N.S.W. Of this species Mr. Froggatt has sent one Q, bred from galls of Bracliyseelis 

 pileata and 4 ^ specimens from a globular gall on Eucalyptus. The latter are considerably 

 larger than the dimensions of the species as given by Walker but otherwise seem to agree well 

 with his description and with the smaller form bred from 7>. pileata." 



4. MEGASTIGMUS ASTERI Ashm.'atl. Female ; male. 



Length, .5-4 mm.; ovipositor as long as the body, brownish yellow; smooth and shining- 

 except some delicate transverse striae on vertex, mesonotum and within the femoral impression 

 on the mesopleuruni ; body clothed with some sparse black and white hairs. Metapleura with 

 long white hairs; sutures of scutellum and inetathorax, anterior margin of scutum, mesosteruum. 

 bands on dorsum of abdomen and ovipositor valves black or brown black. Antennae brown 

 black; scape and pedicel brownisK yellow; first five joints of funicle ;ibout twice as long as 

 wide; seventh joint very little longer than wide. 



The males measure from 1.8 to - nim. and are like the females in color but there is 

 a dusky spot on the vertex inclosing the ocelli; the occiput, a band on anterior margin of 

 mesonotum and metathorax black; flagelluni light, the funicle joints sc;ircely one and a half 

 times longer than wide. 



Habitat: Sydney, New Scnitli \V;iles. A.-sociated with a ilipterous g:rll on .l.vfer 

 riimulosus. 



Type: Cat. No. -^S7S, I'nited States Xational Museum. AVashinuton. P.C., U.S.A. 



