The Queensland Naturalist 
January, 1939 
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the knees, pale. Venation dark. Segment No. 1 of the 
funicle square, No. 2 slightly shorter, No. 3 shortest, a 
half wider than long, the rest square and exceeding No. 1. 
Jaw teeth well -formed, acute, equal. Pedicel nearly twice 
longer than wide (apex). Hairless line closed, 12 lines of 
cilia proximad it. Ovipositor inserted at base. Palpi 3- 
and 4-pointed. Male all purple except the very elongate 
yellow club, tibial tips, middle tarsi, the spur and the 
knees. The single funicle segment is wider than long, 
shorter than the pedicel : club exceeding by much the rest 
of the antennae, unjointed, antennae 4-jointed. Tn the 
female, the frons is wider and the eyes smaller. The 
peculiar male is noteworthy. One male and two females 
reared from Tachardia melaleucae at Perth, West Aus- 
tralia, by Mr. E. J. Newman, the Government Entomolcr- 
gist. Two more females have been seen; and there are 
two more species of the genus known, all Australian. 
Eupelmus fuligispina nov. 
In the whole continent of Australia there are over a 
score species of the genus with a fuscous band from the 
marginal vein, this either divided by a hyaline band, or 
bearing a pair of eye-spots or oculae. In the former group 
still another species has been added, characterised by its 
close affinity to the others. It bears black middle tibial 
spurs. It is the one hundred and thirty-first species of 
the genus (now united with Anastatus). 
Tn my diagnosis of the genus it runs out to redini 
(the male with concolorous legs except tarsi), but differs 
thus: The ovipositor is dusky at basal half; the middle- 
tarsi are not red nor the spur, the latter longer in redini 
and dark only at tip ; the first tarsal joint is shorter, sub- 
equal (dorsad) to the spur; middle tibia not red at tip as 
in redini; and farther, the segments of the funicle differ 
in that segment No. 2 is shorter, being only two and a half 
times longer than wide and subequal to the pedicel, Nos. 3 
and 4 equal and slightly longer than wide, shorter than 
the pedicel. The male is all blue except the first three 
segments of the middle and hind tarsi, the fore and middle 
knees and the middle tibial spur, these white, the rest of 
the tarsi brown. 
Reared from (actually found upon the clusters of. 
later reared from the three specimens so found, all 
females), the eggs of Ochrogaster contraria , Walker, The 
Boree Moth. Leeton, New South Wales. November 19. 193fi. 
by Dr. G. Currie, of the C.S.I.R., Canberra. 
Amongst the relatives of this species, there are some 
notorious pest parasites, including several from cock- 
