:i()0 MEMOmS OF TIIK QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Hc'vever, the collar and the legs (exeejjt coxie) and the lower third of tlie face, lemon-yellow. 

 Antenna; brow'nish, the first funicle joint only a third longer than broad. " ' 



Type: I. 1257, South Australian Museum, one slide with posterior legs, antenna; and two 

 lioads. 



9. MEGASTIGMUS LONGICAUDA Oirault. Female. 



Length, 2.85 nrai., excluding ovipositor. 



Like Epimegaistigmus fiili'ipes but much less robust, the ovipositor greatly lengthened, 

 distinctly nuich longer than the whole body. The first funicle .ioint twice longer than broad, 

 subequal to the jiedicel, the second somewhat shorter. Pedicel long. 



JJdbitat: Port Lincoln, South Australia. 



Tiijii : I. 7 .'.W. South Australian Muesnm. 



10. MEGASTIGMUS FUSCICORNIS Girault. 



Length, 2.40 mm., exclusive nt ii\ i[i(iMtor, wliicli is distinctly shorter tliau tlie body. 



Like miiculatipciiitis luit the propodeum black, tlie ]iedicel of the antenna short and 

 equal to the first funicle joint, whicli is about a fourth longer than wide at apex, subequal to 

 funicle 2; also the ovijiositor is shorter. 



Habitat: Burnie, Tasmania. 



Type: I. 1-^59. South Australian Museum. 



11. MEGASTIGMUS SPECIOSUS new species. Female. 



Leugtli, 2 mm., excluding the ovipositor wliicli is extruded for a lengtli somewhat longer 

 t'i:ui that of the abdomen. 



Variegated; valves of ovijiositor black. Head all black except the orange vertex and 

 upper half of face; pronotuni lemon yellow; mesonotum orange-yellow; sides and venter of 

 thorax, the whole of the propodeum, cephalic margin of scutum and three dorsal, rather broad 

 cross-stripes on abdomen (not including a little black across base) black, the abdominal stripes 

 central, occupying the surface except at eitlier end. Legs pale yellow, the wings hyaline, the 

 antennse missing. Mandibles tridentate, the seutellum with a cross-furrow. Proximal stripe 

 vf abdomen longest, closer to base than the distal stripe is to apex. Otherwise yellow. 



Bdhitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. .Tungle, .July 24. 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type: Xo. IfiiJ.ioS. Queensland Museum. P.risbane. the above specimen on a tag. 



12. MEGASTIGMUS FLAVIVARIEGATUS new species. Female. 



Length, 1.3.'j nnn., excluding o\ijiositor wliicli is i^xsiu-ted for a length somewhat over 

 that of the abdomen. 



Pale lenmn yellow, the vertex sutfused with orange, the nu^sonotum deeji orange; a 

 little less than the basal half of the abdomen washed with dusky. Wings hyaline. Thorax 

 along side of each axilla and the smitellum deep black. Cephalic and caudal margins of 

 propodeum black. Antenna? with the pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints, 

 all of the latter a little wider than long and sube(|ual in length, the distal joints a little wider. 

 Prepectus and the sutures of lateral thorax black. 



Described from a female captured by sweejiing in the jungle, .June 7. Ifll.S (A. P. Dodd). 



Uahitat: (iordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. HySS.U!, Queensland .\lusi>um. lirisbaiie, the fen;ale on .-i tag and a slide with 

 the head. 



13. MEGASTIGMUS EUCALYPTI new species. 



Female: — Length, 2.2.3 nnn.. exclusive of ovijiositor- wiricli is extruded for a length 

 somewhat over half that of the body. 



Very similar to EpiiiiegastUimus fnlvipes but much less robust and there is a transverse 

 orange-yellow spot on each side of meson of propodeum near cejdialic margin; the pronotuni, 



