246 Mr. E,. E. Turner on Two new Species of 



X5Cni.^-^'7'«?> new Species of the Hymenopterons Genus 

 Megalyfa, Westw, By Rowland E. Turner, E'.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Family Megalyridae. 



Megalyra testaceipes, sp. n. 



5. Nigra; pedibus testaceis, palpis pallide testaceis ; anteiinis 

 torebraque bruimeo-testaceis ; alls hyaliuis, iridesceutibus, area 

 cubitali leviter infumata. 



]jOng. 3 mm. ; terebra^, long. 9 mm. 



(S . Feininse similis, alls omnino hyalinis. 



Long. 2*5 mm. 



? . Antennae 14-jointed, second joint of tlie flngellnm 

 twice as long as the first, the tliird joint a little shorter than 

 the second and scarcely longer than the fourth. A strong: 

 transverse carina reaching to the eyes just above the base o£ 

 the anteinifle. Head and thorax coarsely and evenly punc- 

 tured-reticulate. Anterior ocellus separated from the eyes by 

 a distance slightly greater than that separating tlie posterior 

 ocelli from each other ; the posterior ocelli farther from each 

 other than from the eyes. Clypeus rugulose, rounded at 

 the apex. Anterior angles of the mesonotum produced into 

 blunt tubercles; scutellum large, as long as the mesonotum ; 

 pleurai more finely punctured than the mesonotum ; median 

 segment coarsely reticulate on the dorsal surface, finely 

 rugulose on the sides, shorter than the scutellum. Abdomen 

 shining, almost smooth, the punctures microscopic. The 

 whole insect without any patches of pubescence. Legs, 

 especially the tibiae, with sparse whitish hairs; wholly testa- 

 ceous, except the coxse, which are fusco-ferruginous. 



The male js similar to the female in all points of sculpture, 

 but the faint fuscous cloud on the cubital area of the fore 

 wing is absent in the male. 



ffub. Ivuranda, H- Queensland, June 29-.July 16, 1913. 

 Two females and one male. Taken on dead Eucalyplus- 

 wood, in which small beetle-holes were numerous. 



Easily distinguished from other species of the genus by 

 the straight transverse carina above the antennpe, ■ by the 

 much shorter third joint of the flagellum, and by the very 

 small size. Even M, minuta, Frogg., is considerably larger. 



