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5. BOOTANOMYIA LONGIFASCIATA new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.36 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length slightly 
longer than that of the abdomen. 
Pale lemon yellow, the wings hyaline; a rather narrow metallic green line down thorax 
from neck to cross-suture on seutellum caudad of which it enlarges and becomes subtriangular ; 
propodeum with a large triangular metallic green area centrally, the base against its cephalic 
margin. Funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, somewhat shorter than the pedicel; distal two 
funicle joints distinctly wider than long; club distinctly jointed. Ocelli in a transverse metallic 
area. Abdomen with two short, metallic green cross-stripes at proximal half, the first somewhat 
prolonged at its caudal meson. Thorax transversely wrinkled, the scutellum caudad of the 
transverse suture polished. The thoracic median stripe is a little narrower on the scutellum 
cephalad of suture than on the scutum. It runs to apex of scutellum. 
From one female captured by sweeping in forest, August 28, 1913. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. ; 
Type: No. Hy 3345, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
6. BOOTANOMYIA ASHMEADI new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.25 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal 
to that of the abdomen. : 1 cer 
Runs to longifasciata but somewhat smaller, the color darker yellow and differing 
principally in having the metallic green line down meson of thorax darker and broader, less 
uniform; in longifasciata this line is narrower on the scutellum (cephalad of cross-suture ) 
than on scutum but its width is uniform within the bounds of each sclerite; but in this new 
species, it distinctly widens caudad both on scutum and scutellum; on the latter its broadening 
thus leaves only the lateral margins of that region concolorous with the body; its (the line’s) 
broadening on the scutum makes that region entirely metallic green across the caudal part. 
In longifasciata the scutellum distad of the cross-suture is not wholly green, only broadly so 
along meson, in this species all that part of the seutellum is metallic green. The abdomen 
bears at least two cross-stripes but may be one or two more than that. Funicle 1 a little 
wider than long, distinctly shorter than the usual pedicel, the others gradually shortening and 
widening distad. Antenne pale yellow. 
From one female caught in forest, December 23, 1912. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3346, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
Dedicated to William Harris Ashmead. 
7. BOOTANOMYIA AEREA new species. 
Female :—The same as pax but all coxe metallic green, the first two pairs of femora 
dusky, the last pair black and the hind tibia is black just below knees; the abdomen is black. 
In pax, the propodeum is brownish, metallic green in this species (also here the row of oval 
fovee along cephalic margin is deeper; both species bear a pair of converging median carine 
which curve off cephalad to form the caudal boundary of the line of spl Abdomen 
glabrous. Funicles 1-2 quadrate, much shorter than the pedicel. 
A second specimen had the propodeum on each side of median carina finely scaly, 
the body more robust and the abdomen humped or at the highest dorso-proximal part distinctly 
elevated triangularly. The specimen probably represents another species. 
From two females reared from galls ‘‘Gall No. 28, May, 1914, H. Hacker.’’ 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. ; 
Type: No. Hy 3347, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on ‘a tag, the body of 
the first and its head on a slide. 
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