402 NOTES ON THE HYMENOPTEEOUS GENUS MEQALYRA WESTW., 



black or pitch-brown tint, without a hyaline spot on the fore pair, 

 and the basal segments of the abdomen smooth and shining, with 

 the others finely shagreened. The male is unknown. The female 

 measures 9 lines in length, and the ovipositor 28 lines. 



Mr. H. W. Cox informs me that he has bred a specimen of 

 this parasitic wasp from the pupa of a longicorn beetle (Rhyti- 

 phora polymita) enclosed in a stout stem of Acacia decurrens which 

 was cut out of a tree growing near Sydney. 



Sab. — Oakleighand Brighton, Vic. (Kershaw); South Australia 

 (G. Masters); Sydney and Shoalhaven, N.S.W.(W.W. Froggatt). 



Megalyra mastersi, n.sp. 



Q. Black, with wings uniform pitch-brown, paler on hind 

 margins. Head coarsely punctured; anterior ocelli nearer to 

 each other than to the eyes. Thorax coarsely punctured; frontal 

 spines on prothorax small but projecting. Dorsal surface of 

 abdomen with the first segment smooth and shining, the rest 

 finely shagreened, not shining; with scattered grey hairs on the 

 dorsal surface and sides of abdomen. Length of body \ inch; of 

 ovipositor 2 inches. 



Hab. — New South Wales (G. Masters). One specimen; type 

 in Macleay Museum. 



Megalyra fasciipennis Westw. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. London, Vol.iii. p.270, pl.xv. f.3, <£., 1841-43; 

 Griffiths' Anim. Kingdom, Ins.,Vol.ii. p.419, pl.66, f.4, $., 1832; 

 M. rufipes Erichson, Beitrag zur Insecten-Fauna von Vandiemens- 

 land, p.258, 1842. 



This is the common species, with the hyaline or semitransparent 

 forewings blotched across the centre and lightly clothed at the 

 tips. General colour black; legs red; clothed with fine grey 

 hairs upon the face, legs, and sides of the abdominal segments. 

 Head broadly rounded; anterior ocelli nearer to the eyes than to 

 each other. Abdomen elongate-oval, tapering to the extremity, 

 pointed in the male, with the genitalia reddish-brown; first 



