AUSTEALIAX EYMENOPTERA CnALCIDOIDliA, XIL—GIEAULT. 



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short stripes of blai-k; legs and scapo pnio yclldw, tlio fiayclluin dusky. Mesdscutnm and 

 seutelUim transversely reticulated iu polygons, tlie latter with a cross-furrow. Mandibles 

 trideutate. Antenna; slender, 11 -jointed, tlie club solid, one rinKJoint; all funicle joints longer 

 than wide, the first three subequal, longest, much longer than the ]iediccl. Head snioolli. Type 

 ;e-examined. 



I n obit (it : Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest. 

 Type: No. Z/i/.JjV.'). (Queensland Mnseuni, Brisbane. 



2. PARAMEGASTIGMUS IMMACULATICORPUS new species. 



Feniolc: — The s.-iuir as the genotype but iiuummlati'. somewhat more robust and the 

 (iroximal two-thirds of ovipositor valves are brown, the rest black. Propodcum in both 

 species with several cross-carinte. Legs whitish in both species. Funi(de 7 sonnnvhat longer 

 tlian wide. 



From one female taken in forest, Novendier .HO. 1IH.3. 



ITnhitut: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. By .i.i.jO, Queensland Museinn, Brisbane, tlie female on a tag. 



EPIMEGASTIOMUS new subgenus. 



Female: — Differs from Meiiastieniins in liearing a median and usually a lateral grooved 

 line on the scutellum all nuu-e or less abbreviated caudad. Type, the first of the following 

 species. 



1. EPIMEGASTIGMUS FULVIPES ((iirault). Female. Genotype. 

 Xuiitliosoiiioiaex fiili-'ijies Girault. 



Length. 4.20 mm., excluding the t)vipositor, the latt(M' exserted f(»r a length nearly 

 eijual to that of the liody. 



Similar to Meyaslitimus >mieulatipeinii>i but much more robust; also the jironotum is 

 nearly as dark as the scutum, its caudal margin contrasting lemon yellow followed by a narrow- 

 black stripe running across the cephalic margin of the scutum; the propodeum is very dark, 

 the meson of thoracic venter is black and in the ju'cventer there is a distinct triangular black 

 marking like the Greek letter ilelta of the ca]iital case. The jiostmarginal vein is slightly 

 longer than in iitiieiijiil ipeiiiiis, the ajijiarent jn'tiole of tlu' stigma slightly longer. \'ertex dark 

 oehreous, the face lenuin yellow. Wings large. Funicle 1 longer, cylindrical, more than twice 

 longer than wide. The abdomen liears three <lusky cross strijies e(|ually distributed. 



JIahildf : Brisbane, (Queensland. 



Type: No. HyoJiil, (Queensland ?iluseuni, Brisbane, the fi'uiale on a card. 



2. EPIMEGASTIGMUS GROTIUSI new species. Female. 



Length. li.OO mm., excluding the o\ipnsilor which is three fourths the length of the boily 

 or a little over. 



Orange yellow-, immaculate, the valves of the ovipositor black; wings hyaline. Scutum 

 with a narrow median groove, the propodcum with a median sulcus. Funiide joints all longer 

 than the pedicel, the tirst over twice longer, the seventh Init slightly longer, not much longer 

 than wide; joints 2 and :*. of funicle subequal, only slightly shorter fli.-iii 1 which is longest. 

 Tl e lateral groove on scutelluni is most obscure or else absent. 



The male is very much smaller, the abdomen sordid, bl.ukencd at base above but 

 *^tller^vise the saim^. 



llabildt: I'ort Darwin, Northern Territory. 



Type: No. By 3:352, (Queensland Museum, BrisI e, the lemale on a tag. 



