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that between postscutellmn nnd iiroiioileum, a small nrea just mcsad of wing insertions, cephalic 

 margin of propodeum rather narrowly but more broadly than the suture just preceding it-, 

 apex of propodeimi dorsad centrally; a narrow line down propodeum in the usual position of 

 a lateral carina and a still narrower one farther laterad (dorsolateral); neck of pronotum at 

 apex above; a spot just dorsocephalad of caudal coxa and a dot just dorsad of middle coxa; 

 and four rather stout stripes across dorsum of abdomen, all confluent along the meson, a fifth 

 stripe represented by a mesal round area just distad of the fourth; and valves of ovipositor. 

 Funiele joints very gradually shortening distad, the first a little the longest, slightly or barely 

 longer than wide, subequal to the pedicel. Funiele and club dusky yellow. Beutum, parapsides, 

 axillae and scutellum suffused with orange. 



From one female caught in forest, Septemlier 28, 191-1. 



Babitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Type: No. EySoJi), Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen in alcohol with type 

 Atoposoma unrnittdtipes Girault. 



18. MEGASTIGMUS QUADRIFASCIATIVENTRIS new species. Female. 



Lengtli, 1.70 mm., excluding ovipositor which is somewhat longer than the abdomen. 

 Greenish yellow, the mesonotum orange yellow. The following black markings: A loop over 

 center of occiput, cephalic margin of scutum, meson of proijodeum very broadly and a very 

 narrow line along in the position of a lateral carina, suture between pro- and mesopleurura and 

 four distinct stripes across the abdomen, the first two rather close together at proximal fourth, 

 3 a little proximad of middle, 4 somewhat distad of middle. Flagellum dusky, the pedicel 

 longer than any of the funiele joints of which the longest (joint 1) is subquadratc. Wings 

 hyaline. 



Described from one female cajiturcd with pcrriracilis. 



Eahildl : Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy3o40, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female in alcohol with type 

 jiergracilis. 



TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OP MEGASTIGMUS DALMAN AND 



OF EPIMEGASTIGMUS GlEAULT.* 



Fem.\i.es. 



(Ovipositor means extruded i>ortion.) 



I. Black or brown-black species. 



Ovipositor a little shorter than the body; orbits broadly, lower face, pronotum, parapsides, 

 scutum (sometimes), axillas, a transverse line back of scutellum, mouth parts and legs 

 (excejit hind coxas). jiale yellowish. Funiele 1 about one and a half times longer than 

 its width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . brachyscelidis Ashmead. 



Black; ]u-oiiotum. lower face and legs except eoxa>. lemon yellow; antenna; brownish; funiele 

 1 only a third longer than wide . . . . . . . . . . tiismaiiienxis Girault. 



II. Yellow species. 



1. Ovipositor distinctly longer than the body. 



Like fuh'ipes but less robust; funiele 1 tuiee longer tliau wide, subequal to the rather 

 long pedicel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . loiiiiUaiirla Girault. 



2. Ovijjositor no longer than the body usually shorter. 

 Head yelUnv. 



l'ro]iu(leiim wholly blaek nr nearly so. 



I)ee|i orange yellow; pronotum with the caudal margin narrowly lemon yellow followed 

 by a narrow stripe of jet blaek across cephalic margin of scutum; meson of 



* Excluding two species of the latter whicli see. 



