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PODAGRIONIN^. 



PoDAGRiONELLA, Girault. 



PODAGRIONELLA HYALINA, neW Sp. 



9 . Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline. Venter of 

 abdomen and the legs, excepting coxse and the posterior 

 femora, reddish-brown, the coxge concolorous, the caudal 

 femora with more or less metallic-green. Antennae fuscous, 

 the scape metallic toward tip. Posterior femora with eight 

 teeth, the third one minute, barely indicated, the others dis- 

 tinct, the first longest. Distal funicle- joints wider than long, 

 the club enlarged, deep-black and solid. Petiole of abdomen 

 very short. Propodeum without lateral carinse, the median 

 carina V-shaped from base, each arm running meso-caudad. 

 Ovipositor black, longer than the body. Stigmal vein very 

 short. Length, 2*20 mm., excluding ovipositor. 



<S . Not known. 



Described from, one female on a card. 



Hah. — Queensland: Longreach (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 1256, South Australian Museum. The above 

 specimen ; one slide bearing posterior leg and antenna. 



MEGASTIGMIN^. 



Megastigmus, Dalman. 



Synonym: Xanthosomoides, Girault. 

 The antennal club in this genus is 3-jointed, the joints 

 not very distinct, hence the antennae 13-jointed. There is but 

 one ring-joint. 



Megastigmus maculatipennis, Girault. 



One female like this species, but the propodeum 

 nearly wholly ochreous, the abdomen with at least two trans- 

 verse brownish stripes across proximal half and the first 

 funicle- joint twice longer than broad at apex. Labelled 

 ''Adelaide. Barringer." Reared from a gall. 



Megastigmus tasmaniensis, new sp. 



A Tasmanian species, black with a yellow collar, was 

 labelled "Reared from larvae of flies attacking Helichryrum 

 scorpioides. R. A. Black." They were accidentally destroyed. 

 However, the collar and the legs (except coxae) and the lower 

 third of the face, lemon-yellow. Antennae brownish, the first 

 funicle- joint only a third longer than broad. 



Type. — I. 1257, South Australian Museum. One slide — 

 posterior legs, antennae, and two heads. 



