300 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
lfewever, the collar and the legs (except cox) and the lower third of the face, lemon-yellow. 
Antenne brownish, the first funicle joint only a third longer than broad.’’ 
Type: I. 1257, South Australian Museum, one slide with posterior legs, antenna and two 
heads. 
9. MEGASTIGMUS LONGICAUDA Girault. Female. 
Length, 2.85 mm., excluding ovipositor. 
Like ELpimegastigmus fulvipes but much less robust, the ovipositor greatly lengthened, 
distinctly much longer than the whole body. The first funicle joint twice longer than broad, 
subequal to the pedicel, the second somewhat shorter. Pedicel long. 
Habitat: Port Lincoln, South Australia. 
Type: I. 1258, South Australian Muesum. 
10. MEGASTIGMUS FUSCICORNIS Girault. 
Length, 2.40 mm., exclusive of ovipositor, which is distinctly shorter than the body. 
Like maculatipennis but the propodeum black, the pedicel of the antenna short and 
equal to the first funicle joint, which is about a fourth longer than wide at apex, subequal to 
funicle 2; also the ovipositor is shorter. 
Habitat: Burnie, Tasmania. 
Type: TI. 1259, South Australian Museum. 
11. MEGASTIGMUS SPECIOSUS new species. Female. 
Length, 2 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length somewhat longer 
than that of the abdomen. 
Variegated; valves of ovipositor black. Head all black except the orange vertex and 
upper half of face; pronotum lemon-yellow; mesonotum orange-yellow; sides and venter of 
thorax, the whole of the propodeum, cephalic margin of scutum and three dorsal, rather broad 
cross-stripes on abdomen (not including a little black across base) black, the abdominal stripes 
central, occupying the surface except at either end. Legs pale yellow, the wings hyaline, the 
antenne missing. Mandibles tridentate, the scutellum with a cross-furrow. Proximal stripe 
of abdomen longest, closer to base than the distal stripe is to apex. Otherwise yellow. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, July 24, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Type: No. Hy 3335, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag. 
12. MEGASTIGMUS FLAVIVARIEGATUS new species. Female. 
Length, 1.35 mm., excluding ovipositor which is exserted for a length somewhat over 
that of the abdomen. 
Pale lemon-yellow, the vertex suffused with orange, the mesonotum deep orange; a 
little less than the basal half of the abdomen washed with dusky. Wings hyaline. Thorax 
along side of each axilla and the seutellum deep black. Cephalic and caudal margins of 
propodeum black. Antenne with the pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints, 
all of the latter a little wider than long and subequal in length, the distal joints a little wider. 
Prepectus and the sutures of lateral thorax black. 
Described from a female captured by sweeping in the jungle, June 7, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3336, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide with 
the head. 
13. MEGASTIGMUS EUCALYPTI new species. 
Female :—Length, 2.25 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is extruded for a length 
somewhat over half that of the body. 
Very similar to Epimegastigmus fulvipes but much less robust and there is a transverse 
orange-yellow spot on each side of meson of propodeum near cephalic margin; the pronotum, 
