208) MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
thorax niger: abdomen laeve nitens: segmenta basi nigra: oviductus fulvus: vaginae nigrae, 
hirtae, abdomine multo longiores: pedes fulvi; coxae piceae; tarsi apice fusci; metafemora 
subtus piceo maculata: alae limpidae; squamulae fulvae; nervi fusci, basi pallidiores; stigma. 
piceum, rotundum, sat magnum. (Corp. long. lin. 13; lin. 23.) ’’ 
Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. 
Type: Probably in the Natural History Museum, London. 
2. MEGASTIGMUS BORUS Walker. Female. 
Walker, 1839, pp. 5-6. 
“< Sp. 2. Meg. Borus. Fem. Flavus fulvo et piceo varius, antennae piceae basi fulvae,. 
metathoran niger, oviductus vaginae abdomine non longiores, pedes flavi, alae limpidae. 
Flavus, sub-nitens, scite punctatus, fere glaber: caput postice nigrum; vertex fulvus: 
oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae piceae; articulus 1" fulvus: thoracis segmentorum disci fulvi; 
suturae piceae: metathorax niger: abdomen laeve, nitens; discus piceus, fulvo-fasciatus: 
oviductus fulvus; vaginae nigrae, hirtae, abdomine non longiores: pedes flavi; tarsi apice fusci: 
alae limpidae; squamulae flavae; nervi fusci, basi pallidiores; stigma piceum, rotundum, sat. 
magnum. (Corp. long. lin. 14; alar. lin. 23.) ’’ 
Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. 
Tupe: Probably in the Natural History Museum, London. 
3. MEGASTIGMUS IAMENUS Walker. Female. 
Walker, 1839, p. 6. 
“« Sp. 3. Meg. Iamenus. Fem. Fulvus piceo varius, antennae piceae basi fulwae, oviductus: 
vaginae corporis longitudine, pedes fulvi, alae limpidae. 
Fulvus, subnitens, scite punctatus, fere glaber: oculi et ocelli rufi: antenne piceae, basi 
fulvae: thoracis segmentorum suturae piceae: abdominis discus piceo fasciatus: oviductus. 
fulvus; vaginae nigrae, hirtae, corporis longitudine: pedes fulvi; tarsi apice fusci: alae 
limpidae; squamulae fulvae; nervi fulvi; stigma piceum, rotundum, magnum. (Corp. long.. 
tine ealars limes) i22 
Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. 
Type: Probably in the Natural History Museum, London. 
Ashmead (1900) makes the following statement concerning this species: ‘‘ Hab.— 
Sydney, N.S.W. Of this species Mr. Froggatt has sent one Q, bred from galls of Brachyscelis 
pileata and 4 Q specimens from a globular gall on Eucalyptus. The latter are considerably 
larger than the dimensions of the species as given by Walker but otherwise seem to agree well 
with his description and with the smaller form bred from B. pileata.’’ 
4. MEGASTIGMUS ASTERI Ashmead. Female; male. 
Length, 3-4 mm.; ovipositor as long as the body, brownish yellow; smooth and shining 
except some delicate transverse striae on vertex, mesonotum and within the femoral impression 
on the mesopleurum; body clothed with some sparse black and white hairs. Metapleura with 
long white hairs; sutures of scutellum and metathorax, anterior margin of scutum, mesosternum,,. 
bands on dorsum of abdomen and ovipositor valves black or brown black. Antennae brown 
black; scape and pedicel brownish yellow; first five joints of funicle about twice as long as 
wide; seventh joint very little longer than wide. 
The males measure from 1.8 to 2 mm. and are like the females in color but there is. 
a dusky spot on the vertex inclosing the ocelli; the occiput, a band on anterior margin of 
mesonotum and metathorax black; flagellum light, the funicle joints scarcely one and a half 
times longer than wide. 
Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. Associated with a dipterous gall on Aster 
ramulosus. 
Type: Cat. No. 4878, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 
