RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROG ASTERINI 201 



Tasmania : Hobart, 3.111.1935, 1 $, the TYPE, (R. E. Turner). 

 Type in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



A specimen from Australia : Canberra, Foot of Black Mt., viii. 1959, 1 $, 

 (V. F. Eastop), may possibly represent a further species. The wings are smaller, 

 narrower and darker ; the head is more strongly narrowed behind and the ocelli 

 form a slightly higher triangle than in the type female. 



Miropotes petiolaris (Szepligeti) comb. n. 



Microgaster petiolaris Szepligeti, 1905 : 48. 



Microgaster petiolaris Szepligeti ; Wilkinson, 1929 : 104. 



I have seen the type specimens of this species — a male and a female, both mounted 

 separately and both labelled " typus ". 



$. May be compared with cveon as follows: — ■ 



Mandibles, labrum, all the femora reddish-yellow ; hind tibia reddish yellow but with a very 

 faint apical infuscation. 



Eyes slightly less convergent below, the face flat. Antenna broken but the existing basal 

 segments suggest a much longer antenna ; segment 10 is four times as long as wide ; in creon 

 segment 10 is about three times as long as wide. 



Mesoscutum less shiny, more finely more closely and more superficially punctate. The 

 spurious radius is markedly downcurved throughout its entire length so that the radial cell is 

 slightly narrower and has a more parallel-sided appearance than in creon. Propodeum very 

 weakly sloping, flattened and polished and with the merest trace of an areola indicated near the 

 orifice. 



Tergite 1 deceptive in appearance ; the sclerotised median plate has a pale, strongly raised 

 lateral margin ; the middle part of the plate, from base to apex, is more heavily sclerotised, 

 blackened and shows as an elongate segment that widens slightly from base to apex, is nearly 

 three times as long as wide and is finely aciculate throughout ; at first sight this darkened 

 part of the tergite might easily be taken to represent the whole of the normal plate. Median 

 field of tergite 2 with a faint, satin-like sheen and with traces of extremely delicate longitudinal 

 aciculation. Apex of gaster damaged so that neither the shape of the hypopygium nor the shape 

 and length of the ovipositor sheath can be made out. A piece of the ovipositor remains ; 

 this is about two thirds as long as the hind basitarsus, straight and without the apical 

 modification that characterizes creon. 



Length: ca. 4 mm. 



(J. Also damaged, the gaster missing. Like the female except that the eyes are normal and 

 only very slightly convergent below. 



Australia : N.S. Wales, Sydney, 1 <£, 1 $, 1900, {Biro). 

 Type in the National Hungarian Museum. 



DASYLAGON Muesebeck 



Dasylagon Muesebeck, 1958 : 424. 



Head in facial view not in the least lengthened. Mouth parts normal. Scape short (Text-fig. 

 253). Side of pronotum with deep dorsal furrow as well as the normal medial furrow. Meso- 

 scutum thickly hairy and with sharp, discrete punctation on a strongly shining surface ; no 

 crowding of punctures along the imaginary course of the notaulices. Lateral, polished zone of 

 scutellum pushed as far forwards as possible and cutting off between itself and the disc of the 

 scutellum a long, more or less parallel-sided, foveate furrow. Areolet of the fore wing very 



