404 NOTES ON THE HYMENOPTEROUS GENUS MEGALYRA WESTW., 



Megalyra caudata Szepligeti. 



Termes. Fiizetek, xxv. p. 527, 1902. 



Dark brown with reddish areas; front legs beyond femora and 

 hind legs beyond tibiae reddish-brown; scutellum longitudinally 

 wrinkled. Abdomen not sculptured like M. szepligelii. 



Megalyra variegata, n.sp. 



<£. Black, with 2nd-6th antennal joints and legs reddish-brown; 

 wings semiopaque, clouded across the centre with fuscous, and 

 smoky at the tips of the fore pair. Head broad; the hind ocelli 

 closer to eyes than to each other; dorsal surface very regularly 

 punctured; thorax more rugose than head; abdomen elongate- 

 oval, very lightly clothed with rows of grey hairs on the sides; 

 dorsal surface with the first and second segments smooth and 

 shining, third to seventh finely shagreened. Length 5 lines. 



2- Similar to male in colouration, except that the second joint 

 of the antenna? is black. Length of body 8 lines; of ovipositor 

 2| inches 



Hab.— Melbourne {$; J. A. Kershaw); Ballarat, Vic. ($; C. 

 French). Two specimens; type in Coll. National Museum. 



Megalyra kalgoorliensis, n.sp. 



2- Black, with the sides of the abdominal segments lightly 

 marked with dull reddish-brown; legs and tarsi light reddish- 

 brown; forewings semiopaque, broadly clouded in the centre. 

 Head globular, finely punctured; hind ocelli closer to eyes than 

 to each other. Thorax closely punctured, slightly marked behind 

 with dull reddish-brown. Abdomen short, first segment shining, 

 second to seventh finely but distinctly punctured, none of the 

 punctures confluent. Length of body 6 lines; of ovipositor If 

 inches. 



Hab — Kalgoorlie, W.A. (G. W. Froggatt). One specimen; 

 type in Coll. Froggatt. 



Megalyra punctata, n.sp. 

 Q. Black; legs reddish-brown, femora of the hind pair blotched 

 with black; wings almost hyaline, marked with fuscous in the 



