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8. BOOTANOMYIA SANGUINIVENTRIS new species. 



Female: — Length, ii.oO mm. excliuiiug tlie ovipositor wliifh is extruded for a length 

 I'qual to that of the abdomen. 



Dark aeneous green, the abdomen immaculate, blood red, the head golden yellow except 

 the center of vertex which is fenoous nearly to the eyes on each side. Legs honey yellow; 

 antennae concolorous with the head, the pedicel and funiele dusky; scape triquetrous (prism- 

 shaped, the three corners acute, the sides flat), reaching to the ocelli; pedicel subequal to 

 funiele 1 which is a little longer than wide; joints 2 and 3 of funiele a little longer than 1, 

 longest; distal funiele joint (7) a little wider than long; one ring-joint distinct, other not seen. 

 Thorax rather coarsely transversely lineolated ; scutellum glabrous distad of the cross-suture ; 

 one or two thimble punctures on caudal part of scutum. Thorax with soft whitish pubescence. 

 Valves of ovipositor black; wings hyaline. Valves of ovipositor and hind tibios hispid. 



From one female labelled " No. 38," captured in jungle, October 10, 1913, G. F. Hill. 



Buhitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 



Type: No. TlySSiS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the si)ecimen on a tag, the head on 

 a slide. 



TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF BOOTANOMYIA GIRAl LT. 

 Wholly metallic. 

 Dark coppery green, the cephalic and intermediate legs pale yellow; pedicel longer than 

 any of the funiele joirls, 'he first two of the latter subequal. Scutellum distad of 

 transverse suture, glabrous . . . . . . . . pax Girault ; see aerea Girault. 



The same but with greenish and purple retlectioi' . the legs concolorous, the pedicel a little 

 shorter than funiele 1 ; scutellum distad of the transverse suture scluptured as densely 

 as the rest of the sclerite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pergrotus Girault. 



I'artly metallic; yellow. 

 Scutum with obvious scattered thimble punctures; scutellum distad of suture glabrous. 

 Scutellum bright metallic green. 

 Thimble pimctures rather numerous; metallic green of scutum without straight lateral 

 margins, broader cephalad; abdomen dusky above .. .. smuruydus Girault. 



Thimble punctures few; metallic green of scutum with straight lateral margins leaving 

 more of the cophalo-lateral angle yellow. Abdomen with two metallic green cross- 

 stripes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . virklisciitcUum Girault. 



Scutum without obvious tliimlile punctures. 



Thorax with a bright metallic green median stripe from neck to abdomen, this stripe dilating 

 on the scutellum distad of the suture and on |)ropodeum; abdomen with two green 

 cr.jss-stripes on proximal half. Scutellum polished distad of suture . . 



longifasciata Girault; see ashm cadi Girault, sanguiniveiitris Girault. 



PARAMEGASTIGMITS new subgenus. 

 Female: — Ditl'ers from Mcgastignms Dalman in luiviug the abdomen shortly petiolate 

 :ind the club subsolid, the sutures nearly obsolete. 

 Type: Spilomegaxtigmns flariis Girault. 



1. PARAMEjASTIHMUS FLAVUS (Girault). Female. Genotype. 

 SpilomegaitigmuK fiarim Girault. 

 Length, 2 mm. excluding ovipositor which is slightly longer than the abdomen, the valves 

 i)lack. 



Wings hyaline excepting the stigma; abdomen with a distinct petiole, which, however, 

 IS not very much longer than wide. Honey yellow, the abdomen with about four tran.sverse 



