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that between postscutellum and propodeum, a small area just mesad of wing insertions, cephalic 
margin of propodeum rather narrowly but more broadly than the suture just preceding it, 
apex of propodeum dorsad centrally; a narrow line down propodeum in the usual position of 
a lateral carina and a still narrower one farther laterad (dorso-lateral) ; neck of pronotum at 
apex above; a spot just dorso-cephalad of caudal coxa and a dot just dorsad of middle coxa; 
and four rather stout stripes across dorsum of abdomen, all confluent along the meson, a fifth 
stripe represented by a mesal round area just distad of the fourth; and valves of ovipositor. 
Funicle joints very gradually shortening distad, the first a little the longest, slightly or barely 
longer than wide, subequal to the pedicel. Funicle and club dusky yellow. Scutum, parapsides, 
axille and scutellum suffused with orange. 
From one female caught in forest, September 28, 1914. 
Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3339, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen in alcohol with type 
Atoposoma unguttatipes Girault. 
18. MEGASTIGMUS QUADRIFASCIATIVENTRIS new species. Female. 
Length, 1.70 mm., excluding ovipositor which is somewhat longer than the abdomen. 
Greenish yellow, the mesonotum orange yellow. The following black markings: A loop over 
center of occiput, cephalic margin of scutum, meson of propodeum very broadly and a very 
narrow line along in the position of a lateral carina, suture between pro- and mesopleurum and 
four distinct stripes across the abdomen, the first two rather close together at proximal fourth, 
3 a little proximad of middle, 4 somewhat distad of middle. Flagellum dusky, the pedicel 
longer than any of the funicle joints of which the longest (joint 1) is subquadrate. Wings 
hyaline. 
Described from one female captured with pergracilis. 
Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3340, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female in alcohol with type 
pergracilis. 
TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF MEGASTIGMUS DALMAN AND 
OF EPIMEGASTIGMUS GIRAULT.* 
FEMALES. 
(Ovipositor meaus extruded portion. ) 
I. Black or brown-black species. 
Ovipositor a little shorter than the body; orbits broadly, lower face, pronotum, parapsides, 
secutum (sometimes), axillaw, a transverse line back of scutellum, mouth parts and legs 
(except hind cox), pale yellowish. Funicle 1 about one and a half times longer than 
its width ~ a ie = Le bid ie ..  brachyscelidis Ashmead. 
Black; pronotum, lower face and legs except cox, lemon yellow; antenna brownish; funicle 
1 only a third longer than wide .. a = se .. tasmaniensis Girault. 
II. Yellow species. 
1. Ovipositor distinctly longer than the body. 
Like fulvipes but less robust; funicle 1 twice longer than wide, subequal to the rather - 
lone spedicele a. -5 ate 2% oh ie A re .. longicauda Girault. 
2. Ovipositor no longer than the body usually shorter. 
Head yellow. 
Propodeum wholly black or nearly so. 
Deep orange yellow; pronotum with the caudal margin narrowly lemon yellow followed 
by a narrow stripe of jet black across cephalic margin of scutum; meson of 
* Excluding two species of the latter which see. 
