246 Ml"- R. K. Turner on Two neic Species of 



XXIII. — Twy new Speci'es of the Ilipnennpterous Genust 



Rowland E. Tukner, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Migalyra, Weatio. By 



Family Megalyridae. 



Megalyra testaceipes, sp. n. 



$ . Nigra ; pedibus testaceis, palpis pallide testaceis ; antennis 

 torebraque bruaneo-testaceis ; alls hyalinis, iridesceutibus, area 

 cubitali leviter infumata. 



]jong. 3 mm. ; terebrae, long. 9 mm. 



S . Feminae similis, alis omnino hyalinis. 



Long. 2'5 mm. 



? . Antennse 14-jointed, second joint of tlie flagellnm 

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

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

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

 the antennfe. Head and thorax coarsely and evenly punc- 

 tured-reticulate. Anterior ocellus separated from the eyes by 

 a distance slightly greater tiian that separating tlie posterior 

 ocelli from each other ; the posterior ocelli farther from each 

 other than from the eyes. Olypeus riigulose, 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 is similar to the female in all points of sculpture, 

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

 win<2: is absent in the male. 



Ifab. Kuranda, N- Queensland, June 29-July 16, 1913. 

 Two females and one male. Taken on dead Eucalyplus- 

 wood, in whicii small beetle-holes were numerous. 



Easily distinguished from other species of the genus by 

 the straight transverse carina above the antennse, by the 

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

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



