November, 1940 
The Queensland Naturalist 
105 
of the main infuscation. Ciliation dense as also in the 
costal cell except proximad widely. 
Segments Nos. 1-5 of the funicle square; first ring- 
joint shorter than the second. Clothing of the flagellum 
stiff, scattered and not long. Funicle segments shorten- 
ing in succession to some extent, especially in the male. 
Scutellum convex, longer than wide, its sculpture finer 
and more longitudinal. Longish black hairs upon the 
callus or dorso-lateral aspect of the propodeum. Hind 
femora simple, with longish soft hairs. Clothing of the 
dorsal thorax not conspicuous but present. Hind 
wing with about sixteen lines of dense ciliation. Spiracle 
circular. 
The male coxae were not seen. 
The collector of this new form, characterised 
especially by the low insertion of the antennae, wrote con- 
cerning it that it was very interesting to him, and “T have 
only just bred a limited number from galls on the leaves 
of turpentine, about a hundred small galls upon each 
leaf, one insect in each gall A general examination of 
the adult and also the form of its egg. leads me to think 
that it comes somewhere near to the T rich iloga stars which 
cause galls upon the Acacias. There is no reference to 
this species, in any of the publications we have, and you 
will doubtless know if it has been described.” 
He gave a rough outline drawing of the egg which 
resembles that formerly described for Triehilogaster, and 
later promised to illustrate it, that is. the adult and gall. 
The species is named for Ulysses Aldrovandi, 1602, 
The types are deposited in the Queensland Museum, 
together with the following two species received at the 
same time. 
Though classed with the Mkcoqastorirfae rightly, this 
genus is doubtless another of those gall -.forming chalcids, 
hitherto unclassified correctly and grouped more or less 
closely together on account of habit. However, in my 
monograph of the Australian Chaleidoidoa, now in MS. 
in the Queensland Museum, 1 have classed these rightly 
into their various families 
A male, three females from leaf-galls on Syricarpia 
la uri folia, Sept. 9. 1938, Newcastle, N.S. Wales, N. S. 
Noble, types. 
GENUS EPTMEGASTIGMUS GTE AULT 
Epn m eg astiq wv.s darlinqi Girault, nov. 
Named for Grace Darling, a brave young life-saver. 
