BY WALTER W. FR0GGATT. 401 



from the examination of the series in the Macleay Museum, and 

 in my own private collection, I have had under examination the 

 largest collection of these curious parasitic wasps ever brought 



together. 



Mbgalyra shuckardi Westw. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p.223, tab. 7, f.l, 1851. 



The only specimen of this species I have seen came from South 

 Australia among specimens from the Adelaide Museum. It is 

 somewhat larger than M. mutilis, the body measuring 12 lines, 

 and the ovipositor 44. 



All black, thickly clothed with white hairs upon the front and 

 back of the head, abdominal segment fringed on the sides with 

 short tufts forming irregular bars of silvery white; posterior ocelli 

 nearer to each other than to the edges of the compound eyes; 

 fore wings with a dull light spot or blotch towards the apical part 

 of the centre. 



Hab. — Adelaide, S.A. (J. G. 0. Tepper), South Australia 

 (Macleay Museum). Two specimens (Q). 



Megalyra mutilis Westw. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. London, (2nd Ser.) 1851, p.226. 



This large black species has uniformly clouded pitch-brown, 

 rounded wings which are very small in comparison with the body. 

 The head and thorax are roughened, the abdomen elongate-oval, 

 shining, impressed on the sides with fine punctures. Length of 

 body 1 1 lines; wings 8 lines. 



The very small almost black wings are quite different from 

 those of any species I have ever seen, and would almost lead one 

 to think it was an undeveloped specimen. 



Hab. — Adelaide, S.A (Westwood). 



Megalyra melanoptera Schl. 



Berlin. Entom. Zeitschr. xxxiii p.244, 1889 (9). 



This appears to be the common large black-winged species 

 which is generally to be found in our collections ticketed M. 

 shuckardi, from which it differs in having the wings of a uniform 



