AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. 307 
short stripes of black; legs and scape pale yellow, the flagellum dusky. Mesoscutum and 
scutellum transversely reticulated in polygons, the latter with a cross-furrow. Mandibles 
tridentate. Antenne slender, 11-jointed, the club solid, one ring-joint; all funicle joints longer 
than wide, the first three subequal, longest, much longer than the pedicel. Head smooth. Type 
ye-examined. 
1 Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. Hy 3349, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 
2. PARAMEGASTIGMUS IMMACULATICORPUS new species. 
Female:—The same as the genotype but immaculate, somewhat more robust and the 
proximal two-thirds of ovipositor valves are brown, the rest black. Propodeum in both 
species with several cross-carine. Legs whitish in both species. Funicle 7 somewhat longer 
than wide. 
From one female taken in forest, November 30, 1913. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3350, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 
EPIMEGASTIGMUS new subgenus. 
Female :—Differs from Megastigmus in bearing a median and usually a lateral grooved 
line on the scutellum all more or less abbreviated caudad. Type, the first of the following 
species. 
1. EPIMEGASTIGMUS FULVIPES (Girault). Female. Genotype. 
Xanthosomoides fulvipes Girault. 
Length, 4.20 mm., excluding the ovipositor, the latter exserted for a length nearly 
equal to that of the body. 
Similar to Megastigmus maculatipennis but much more robust; also the pronotum is 
nearly as dark as the scutum, its caudal margin contrasting lemon yellow followed by a narrow 
black stripe running across the cephalic margin of the scutum; the propodeum is very dark, 
the meson of thoracic venter is black and in the preventer there is a distinct triangular black 
marking like the Greek letter delta of the capital case. The postmarginal vein is slightly 
longer than in maculatipennis, the apparent petiole of the stigma slightly longer. Vertex dark 
ochreous, the face lemon yellow. Wings large. Funicle 1 longer, cylindrical, more than twice 
longer than wide. The abdomen bears three dusky cross-stripes equally distributed. 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3351, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a ecard. 
2. EPIMEGASTIGMUS GROTIUSI new species. Female. 
Length, 3.90 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is three fourths the length of the body 
or a little over. 
Orange yellow, immaculate, the valves of the ovipositor black; wings hyaline. Seutum 
with a narrow median groove, the propodeum with a median sulcus. Funicle joints all longer 
than the pedicel, the first over twice longer, the seventh but slightly longer, not much longer 
than wide; joints 2 and 3 of funicle subequal, only slightly shorter than 1 which is longest. 
Tre lateral groove on scutellum is most obscure or else absent. 
The male is very much smaller, the abdomen sordid, blackened at base above but 
otherwise the same. 
Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 
Type: No. Hy 3352, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 
