34 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
MESEUSANDALUM new genus. 
Female :—Form elongate, the abdomen long and conical, distinctly longer than the rest 
of the body, the ovipositor exserted distinctly but shortly. In Ashmead’s (1904) table of 
genera running to Eusandalum Ratzburg (the middle tarsi are armed) but the antenne are 
11-jointed with a ring-joint and a 2-jointed club, the flagellum filiform, the club not distinctly 
differentiated. Legs slender, the hind tibia with a single spur. Second abdominal segment 
very slightly incised at meson of caudal margin, others entire, segment 2 a little the longest,. 
3 distinctly the shortest, 7 nearly as long as 2. Seutum with two longitudinal impressions,. 
incomplete from caudad. Axille widely separated, their inner margins regularly curved. 
Stigmal vein subsessile, the postmarginal short but over twice the length of the stigmal, the 
marginal vein moderately short, distinctly shorter than the submarginal, much longer than the 
postmarginal. Face almost carinated as in the Dirrhinini. Genal suture distinet. Strigil 
present. Lateral ocelli at extreme cephalo-lateral angles of vertex, barely separated from the 
eyes, the latter naked. See the third species. 
1. MESEUSANDALUM CYANEIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. 
Female :—ULength, 4.20 mm., including the ovipositor. 
Dark metallic green, the scutellum, axille and abdomen coppery or bronze, the venter 
of abdomen blue. Wings hyaline. Legs and antennz concolorous except knees and proximal 
four tarsal joints which are white. Pedicel short, a little shorter than distal club joint, which 
is next shortest of the flagellum; ring-joint large; funicle 1 long and slender, 2 and 3 subequal, 
a little shorter than 1, somewhat over thrice longer than wide; others gradually shortening, the 
distal club joint ovate, not much longer than wide. First tarsal joint of middle legs not half 
the length of the same joint of hind legs, which is slender. Scrobes glabrous. Head and thorax 
densely, finely scaly, the scutellum more finely so, nearly longitudinally lineolated. Propodeum 
without carine, delicately scaly. Pronotum with transverse lineolations. 
From one female taken January 7, 1914 in forest. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2594, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
2. MESEUSANDALUM STYLATUS new species. 
Female :—Length, 6.75 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal 
to that of the abdomen or a little more. 
Differs from the preceding in having the abdominal stylus nearly as long as the 
extruded portion of ovipositor, the hind tibia bears two spurs, segment 2 of abdomen has a 
slight incision at caudal meson and is as long as or a little longer than 3, the stigmal and 
postmarginal veins are a little longer, the color is purplish, the fore wings stained more: 
especially longitudinally along the middle out to apex of venation, the tibie are reddish brown 
except cephalic ones just below knees, the postmarginal vein is over twice the length of the- 
stigmal, the tarsi brown; head and thorax densely finely punctate including a contrasting 
semicircular area at caudal meson of propodeum and which is more than half the length of that 
region at the meson; this area is deeply sutured from the transverse, subglabrous mesal portion of 
the propodeum and appears to belong to the abdomen. Spiracle large, round, with a curved’ 
sulcus just mesad of it; no carinw on propodeum. Segments 2 and 3 of abdomen glabrous, the: 
following transversely, finely wrinkled, the last (7) and the stylus punctate like the thorax,. 
the stylus with a sharp median carina. Caudal margin of pronotum conically produced distad, 
subacute at apex. Funicle 1 as long as the scape, four times the length of the distal antennal! 
joint which is much shorter than the joint preceding it. 
From one female caught on a tree trunk, 2-9-13 (H. Hacker). 
Habitat: Enoggera (Brisbane), Queensland. ' 
Type: No: Hy 2895, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female “minutien-mounted ;: 
middle and hind legs and an antenna on a slide. 
