3(IS MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



3. EPIMEGASTIGMUS QUINQUEFASCIATUS n.w species. 



Female: — Length, :! mm., excluding ovipositor wliose valves are extrucleil for a leugtli- 

 equal to that of the abdomen. 



Honey vellow. the tliorax dorsad orange yellow; tlie wings hyaline, the body marked with 

 black as follows: Antenna> except proximal two thirds of scape, a few lateral and ventral 

 thoracic sutures, lateral margins of propodeum, margins of abdomen from base not quite to 

 apex, extruded valves of ovipositor (.iet) and five cross-stripes on abdomen, evenly distributed., 

 till', fiist two narrowly divided along the meson, the last two joined along the meson, the last 

 across just within the ends of the marginal stripes, all moderately broad. Postmarginal vein 

 about as long as the marginal. Only the median groove of scutellum is present. Funicle joints 

 all distinctly longer than wide, 1 somewhat the longest, nearly twii'e longer than wide, subequal 

 to the jiedicel. Dorsal thorax with scattered black hairs. 



From one female caught July 11, 1914 in jungle. 



Uuhitut: (tordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. 11 y 335:^. Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen on .m tag. 



4. EPIMEGASTIGMUS TRISULCATUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.7u mm., excluding o\i|iositor which is extruded for a length somewhat 

 more than that of the abdomen. 



Dark red, the propodeum, caudal coxa', caudal margin of ]ironotum (the black preceded 

 by a narrow band of lemon yellow), occiput, thorax on each side of scutellum caudad of axilla? 

 and most of mesopleurum, jet black; also ovipositor valves and stigma. Abdomen with two 

 broad dusky cross-stripes, the second at middle, both rather broadly interrujited at meson. 

 Legs brownish yellow. Flagellum black, the funicle joints as long as the jiedicel, one and 

 a half times longer than wide, the distal three shortening, a little longer than wide. Scutellum 

 with three grooves, one median, all disajipeariug before apex. Propodeum with a long narrow 

 median carina, finely rngulosely punctate. I'ostscntellnm lemon yellow. Much smaller than 

 fnlvipes, the hind coxas black. 



From tme female labelled "Bred from gall Xo. -7, May. 1914, H. Hacker.'' 



Hahiliit: Brisbane, Queensland. 



Tyi>( : Nil. I[ii33.'il. Queensland Museum, Brisliane. the s|iecimeii on a tag, the head on 

 a slide. 



BOOTANFLLKTS new genus. 



Like Bontaiiia Dalla Torre but the scutum and the rest of the thorax are metallic and 

 with a scaly sculjiture, the axilUn advanced. Mandibles tridentate. Abdomen sessile. Antenna' 

 12-jointed, two ring-joints, the club solid. Propodeum without a median carina. Form small. 



1. BOOTANELLEUS VIRIDISCUTELLUM new species. Female. Genotype. 



Lengtli, II. G:! mm., excluding ovipositor w'hich is extruded for a length equal to that of 

 the abdomen. Dull honey yellow, the scutum metallic green, the scutellum caudad of the 

 transverse line metallic cyaneus, also the propodeum, the parapsides honey yellow; abdomen 

 dull yellow; legs and antenna; honey yellow, the wings hyaline. Valves of ovipositor black. 

 The seven funicle joints all smaller than the iiedicel, the first a little the longest. Axilla' 

 metallic green. 



Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), (|)ii('enshiiul. Forest, December 27, 1912. 



Type: No. Hy .■i.iiiii. Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the female on a t.ag, the head on 

 a slide. 



