308 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
38. EPIMEGASTIGMUS QUINQUEFASCIATUS new species. 
Female:—Length, 3 mm., excluding ovipositor whose valves are extruded for a length 
equal to that of the abdomen. 
Honey yellow, the thorax dorsad orange yellow; the wings hyaline, the body marked with 
black as follows: Antenneze except proximal two thirds of scape, a few lateral and ventral 
thoracic sutures, lateral margins of propodeum, margins of abdomen from base not quite to 
apex, extruded valves of ovipositor (jet) and five cross-stripes on abdomen, evenly distributed,. 
the first two narrowly divided along the meson, the last two joined along the meson, the last 
across just within the ends of the marginal stripes, all moderately broad. Postmarginal vein 
about as long as the marginal. Only the median groove of scutellum is present. Funicle joints. 
all distinctly longer than wide, 1 somewhat the longest, nearly twice longer than wide, subequal. 
to the pedicel. Dorsal thorax with scattered black hairs. 
From one female caught July 11, 1914 in jungle. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3353, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
4. EPIMEGASTIGMUS TRISULCATUS new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.70 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length somewhat 
more than that of the abdomen. 
Dark red, the propodeum, caudal coxe, caudal margin of pronotum (the black preceded 
by a narrow band of lemon yellow), occiput, thorax on each side of scutellum caudad of axilla 
and most of mesopleurum, jet black; also ovipositor valves and stigma. Abdomen with two 
broad dusky cross-stripes, the second at middle, both rather broadly interrupted at meson. 
Legs brownish yellow. Flagellum black, the funicle joints as long as the pedicel, one and 
a half times longer than wide, the distal three shortening, a little longer than wide. Scutellum 
with three grooves, one median, all disappearing before apex. Propodeum with a long narrow 
median earina, finely rugulosely punctate. Postscutellum lemon yellow. Much smaller than. 
fulvipes, the hind coxe black. 
From one female labelled ‘‘Bred from gall No. 27, May, 1914, H. Hacker.’’ 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3364, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on. 
a slide. : 
BOOTANELLEUS new genus. 
Like Bootania Dalla Torre but the scutum and the rest of the thorax are metallic and 
with a scaly sculpture, the axille advanced. Mandibles tridentate. Abdomen sessile. Antenne 
12-jointed, two ring-joints, the club solid. Propodeum without a median carina. Form small. 
1. BOOTANELLEUS VIRIDISCUTELLUM new species. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 0.65 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to that of 
the abdomen. Dull honey yellow, the scutum metallic green, the scutellum caudad of the 
transverse line metallic cyaneus, also the propodeum, the parapsides honey yellow; abdomen 
dull yellow; legs and antenne# honey yellow, the wings hyaline. Valves of ovipositor black. 
The seven funicle joints all smaller than the pedicel, the first a little the longest. Axille- 
metallic green. 
Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Forest, December 27, 1912. 
Type: No. Hy.3355, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on 
a slide. 
