296 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
From one female captured in a forest pocket, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3328, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
6. NEOMEGASTIGMUS VARIUS new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.60 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal 
to a little over half the abdomen. 
Like petiolatus but the propodeum, head and first pair of legs are orange yellow, the 
cephalic tibia and all tarsi white. Thorax wholly orange yellow. Scape pallid. Pedicel 
longer than any funicle joint. Funicle 1 quadrate, smallest, 3 longest, somewhat longer than 
wide, 7 somewhat wider than long. Caudal margin of segment 2 of abdomen naked and with 
a very narrow incision at meson, the others entire. Propodeum about as in petiolatus and 
. rufithorax. Fore wing marked as in rufithoraz but the marking not as large and not so 
deep in color. 
From one female caught in forest, December 1, 1913. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3329, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
7. NEOMEGASTIGMUS RUFITHORAX new species. 
A little more robust than petiolatus; distal half of scutellum, distal half of axille and 
the cephalic legs (except the white tibia) purplish black and sides and venter of thorax. 
Caudal edge of segment 3 of abdomen naked, not armed with minute sete as in petiolatus. 
Segment 4 of abdomen not incised. Occiput and venter black. In both species the propodeum 
bears numerous ruge from cephalic margin and there are no distinct median nor lateral carine 
but a half complete lateral carina from caudal apex. A small, dark spot between caudal 
margin of fore wing and the caudal end of the stigmal stripe. 
From one female caught in forest on sand ridges near coast, May 13, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy 3330, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
The black color in this species is very deep. 
A. NEOMEGASTIGMUS RUFITHORAX NELSONENSIS new variety. 
The same but scutellum wholly orange yellow, the caudal edge of segment 2 of abdomen 
is armed with short sete, the body a little less robust. 
From one female caught in forest. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3331, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type 
of the type form. 
8. NEOMEGASTIGMUS HYALINUS new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.75 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length 
nearly equal to that of the abdomen. 
Metallic blue green, the thorax transversely lined, the wings hyaline; knees, tibiw and 
tarsi pale lemon yellow; abdomen black blue except at base. Antenne black blue, the pedicel 
and funicle 1 subequai, distinctly longer than wide; funicles 2 and 3 subequal, a little longer 
than wide; funicles 6-7 subequal, a little wider than long. Propodeum and head densely 
scaly, the former noncarinate. Abdomen delicately scaly except segment 2 which is incised 
caudad at meson (segment 3 slightly so). Secutellum densely polygonally scaly. Otherwise 
as in the other species. 
From one female, May 12, 1914 caught in forest (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Chindera, New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy 3332, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
