304 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
BOOTANOMYTA new subgenus. 
Like Megastigmus Dalman but the body partly or wholly metallic, frequently with 
thimble punctures. 
1. BOOTANOMYIA SMARAGDUS new species. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 1.50 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length distinctly longer 
than that of the abdomen. Similar to viridiscutellum Girault but the scutum is almost wholly 
metallic green, the extreme cephalo-lateral angle showing a trace of yellow (in the species 
named, the cephalo-lateral angles of scutum are yellow, the green on scutum rectangular, longer 
than wide, its margins nearly straight cephalo-caudad); the thimble punctures on scutum are 
more numerous and the abdomen above wholly brownish. The thorax in both species is finely, 
transversely lineolated; the scutellum distad of the transverse line is glabrous in both and 
the ocellar area is metallic green with a cephalic projection from each side, forming a erude 
U on the vertex. Scape and pedicel in both colored above. The antenne are alike but 
smaragdus apparently bears two ring-joints, while viridiscutellum bears but one. Compared 
with type of the named species. 
Habitat: Roma, Queensland. October 6, 1911. 
Type: No. Hy 3341, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
2. BOOTANOMYIA PAX new species. Female. 
Length, 1.33 mm., excluding ovipositor which is a little longer than the abdomen. 
Dark metallic coppery green, the wings hyaline, the abdomen dark brown, the valves of 
the ovipositor nearly black; cephalic and intermediate legs pale yellow; the caudal coxe and 
the femora concolorous, the former diluted with brownish. Scutellum glabrous ecaudad of the 
transverse suture. Antenne with the pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints, dusky; 
first two funicle joints subequal, the distal three each a little wider than long. Thorax 
transversely lineolated, impunctate or nearly. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest (1,500 feet), May 26, 1912. 
Type: No. Hy 3342, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
8. BOOTANOMYIA VIRIDISCUTELLUM new species. Female. 
Length, 1.65 mm., excluding ovipositor whose exserted portion is slightly longer than 
the abdomen. 
Orange yellow, the pronotum and legs lemon yellow, the wings hyaline. Meson of 
pronotum triangularly (apex caudad), scutum, scutellum and propodeum bright metallic green, 
the abdomen at base above with two short, dusky greenish, cross-stripes. Scutum with sparse 
thimble punctures. Vertex with U-shaped green marking, the arms pointing cephalad. 
Thorax finely, transversely lineolated, the scutellum distad of the transverse line, polished. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, August 9, 1912. 
Type: No. Hy 3343, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on 
a slide. 
4. BOOTANOMYIA PERGRATUS new species. Female. 
Length, 1.80 mm., excluding ovipositor which is about as long as the abdomen. 
Like paz but all the legs conccolorous, the thorax with metallic green and purple 
reflections, the abdomen as dark as the thorax and the antenne concolorous and with the first 
two funicle joints a little longer than the pedicel. Moreover, distad of the transverse suture,. 
the scutellum is not glabrous but finely longitudinally striate like the rest of the sclerite. 
Antenne 13-jointed, the club 3-jointed, one ring-joint. Pronotum transversely striate, scutum 
variously striate. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, August 2, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Type: No. Hy 3344, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a. 
slide. 
