AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. . 297 
9. NEOMEGASTIGMUS AURITIBIZ new species. 
Female :—Length, 2.30 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length 
equal to three fourths that of the abdomen. E 
Agrees with the description of hyalinus but the scape is reddish brown at ventral half 
and funicle 1 is distinctly longer than the short pedicel which is no longer than wide; funicle 
1 distinetly longer than wide, the following joints a little longer than wide, shortening slightly 
in succession distad. Propodeum dorso-laterad, about ventral half of the face, sides of abdomen 
{distal half) and upper hind cox, with rather coarse silvery pubescence. 
From one female caught in forest, September 2, 1914. 
Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3333, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen in alcohol with type 
Atoposoma unguttatipes Girault. 
TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF NEOMEGASTIGMUS GIRAULT. 
Fore wings without a substigmal spot oS i .. The species hyalinus and auritibie. 
Fore wings with a substigmal spot. 
Wholly black-blue. 
Legs (except cox) and antennz white or nearly (caudal femur a little dusky) A 
lividus Girault.* 
The same but femora and cox concolorous a es aa ..  saltensis Girault. 
Black-blue, the pronotum (except caudal margin) and head orange-yellow. 
Funicle joints subquadrate. 
Ovipositor extruded for a length equal to that of abdomen; legs pale .. collaris Girault. 
Ovipositor extruded for a length longer than that of the abdomen; cox and the hind 
femora brown ae Ate ahs me 35 Si: an .. filius Girault. 
Orange-yellow. 
Abdomen, propodeum and distal third of scutellum purplisk black; hind legs blackish 
petiolatus Girault; see varius Girault and rufithorax Girault. 
GENUS MEGASTIGMUS Dalman. 
Synonym: Xanthosomoides Girault. 
Subgenera: Megastigmus Dalman, Bootanomyia novum, Paramegastigmus noyum 
and Epimegastiqmus novum. 
SuspceNus MEGASTIGMUS Dalman. 
1. MEGASTIGMUS DRANCES Walker. Female. 
Walker, 1839, p. 5. 
‘¢ Sp. 1. Meg. Drances. Fem. Fulvus nigro-varius, antennae nigrae basi fulvae, oviductus 
vaginae abdomine multo longiores, pedes fulvi, alae limpidae. 
Fulvus, sub-nitens, scite punctatus, fere glaber: capitis vertex niger: os flavum: oculi et 
ocelli rufi: antennae nigrae; articulus 1"8 fulvus: thorax nigro per medium vittatus; meta- 
* badius new variety. Female :—Length, 1°50 mm., excluding ovipositor. Smaller than the type form and 
chocolate brown, the legs white except the brown cox and the slightly embrowned hind femur (the latter some- 
what blackish in the type form). Also, the substigmal spot is distinctly smaller, barely larger than the stigmal 
knob. Tegule white. In the type form the substigmal marking is conspicuous and distinctly larger than the 
stigmal knob. 
Reared at Gordonvale, Queensland, with the type form from cecidomyiid galls on tea-tree leaves, 
September 1,1912. Notype. The galls were pustular, reddish, subsetiform, solitary or in irregular groups on the 
surface of the foliage. 
