306 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
8. BOOTANOMYIA SANGUINIVENTRIS new species. 
Female:—Length, 3.30 mm. excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length 
equal to that of the abdomen. 
Dark eneous green, the abdomen immaculate, blood red, the head golden yellow except 
the center of vertex which is eneous nearly to the eyes on each side. Legs honey yellow; 
antenne concolorous with the head, the pedicel and funicle dusky; scape triquetrous (prism- 
shaped, the three corners acute, the sides flat), reaching to the ocelli; pedicel subequal to 
funicle 1 which is a little longer than wide; joints 2 and 3 of funicle a little longer than 1, 
longest; distal funicle joint (7) a little wider than long; one ring-joint distinct, other not seen. 
Thorax rather coarsely transversely lineolated; scutellum glabrous distad of the cross-suture; 
one or two thimble punctures on caudal part of scutum. Thorax with soft whitish pubescence. 
Valves of ovipositor black; wings hyaline. Valves of ovipositor and hind tibie hispid. 
From one female labelled ‘‘ No. 38,’’ captured in jungle, October 10, 1913, G. F. Hill. 
Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 
Type: No. Hy 3348, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on 
a slide. 
TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF BOOTANOMYIA GIRAULT. 
Wholly metallic. 
Dark coppery green, the cephalic and intermediate legs pale yellow; pedicel longer than 
any of the funicle joints, the first two of the latter subequal. Scutellum distad of 
‘transverse suture, glabrous 5 3 .. pax Girault; see aerea Girault. 
The same but with greenish and purple petioctions, the legs concolorous, the pedicel a little 
shorter than funicle 1; scutellum distad of the transverse suture scluptured as densely 
as the rest of the sclerite .. = We By2 Be is .. pergrotus Girault. 
Partly metallic; yellow. 
Seutum with obvious scattered thimble punctures; scutellum distad of suture glabrous. 
Scutellum bright metallic green. 
Thimble punctures rather numerous; metallic green of scutum without straight lateral 
margins, broader cephalad; abdomen dusky above aie .. smaragdus Girault. 
Thimble punctures few; metallic green of scutum with straight lateral margins leaving 
more of the cephalo-lateral angle yellow. Abdomen with two metallic green cross- 
stripes oe xs ne 5 ee py ee sae .. vtridiscutellum Girault. 
Scutum without obvious thimble punctures. 
Thorax with a bright metallic green median stripe from neck to abdomen, this stripe dilating 
on the scutellum distad of the suture and on propodeum; abdomen with two green 
cross-stripes on proximal half. Scutellum polished distad of suture .. 
longifasciata Girault; see ashmeadi Girault, sanguinea Girne 
PARAMEGASTIGMUS new subgenus. 
Female :—Differs from Megastigmus Dalman in having the abdomen shortly petiolate 
and the club subsolid, the sutures nearly obsolete. 
Type: Spilomegastigmus flavus Girault. 
i. PARAMEGASTIGMUS FLAVUS (Girault). Female. Genotype. 
Spilomegastigmus flavus Girault. 
Length, 2 mm. excluding ovipositor which is slightly longer than the abdomen, the valves 
black. 
Wings hyaline excepting the stigma; abdomen with a distinct petiole, which, however, 
is not very much longer than wide. Honey yellow, the abdomen with about four transverse 
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