Australian Species of Poecilocryptus — PARROTT 
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Cameron (1901: 528) vaguely records this 
species from "Australia.” He later (1911: 335) 
states that Froggatt bred this species from 
reddish {Eucalyptus) berry-shaped galls in Sep- 
tember near Inverall, New South Wales. Mot- 
ley records it from Melbourne, Victoria, dur- 
ing August and September. Turner and 
Waterston (1920: 26) record it from Mt. 
Wellington, and Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania, 
in January and March. 
Material Studied 
2 Warrendyte, Victoria, October, 1925. 
Coll. G. F. Hill. (D.S.I.R.O. Collections.) 
2 Warrendyte, N. D. Coll. G. F. Hill. 
(D.S.I.R.O. Collections.) 
4 Warrendyte, Victoria, collected July, 
1925, "emerged August 1928.” Coll. G. 
F. Hill. 
Poecilocryptus straminea Motley 
Poecilopimpla nigromaculata var. straminea Mot- 
ley, Rev. Ichneum. Brit. Mus., Pt. 3: 37, 
1914. 
This species may be briefly characterized as 
follows : 
As P. nigromaculatus Cameron but smaller 
(5-7 mm.), with the posterior ocelli about 
their diameter apart, the same distance sep- 
arating them from the dorsal margin of eyes 
on either side; antennae subequal to length 
of fore-wing, and with under 30 joints in 
flagellum; ovipositor as long or longer than 
the abdomen; second, third, fourth, and fifth 
abdominal tergites having dorsolateral spots 
generally well separated medially; apex of 
posterior tibiae not infuscated. Morley, who 
first recognized this species as a variety of 
P. nigromaculatus, only noted the reduction of 
the black markings of the abdomen and the 
smaller size. 
Morley (1914: 37) recorded this species 
from swollen stems of Acacia leaves at Sydney. 
In 1892 Froggatt bred the typical female and 
a male labeled "Agrizom. galls. Rose Bay.” 
Fig. 1. Fore- and hind-wing of Poecilocryptus stram- 
inea Morley 
A third specimen was captured by French at 
Melbourne during August, 1900. 
Material Studied 
IcT (Holotype) Sydney. Coll. W. W. 
Froggatt. (D.S.I.R.O. Collection.) 
Icf (Paratype) Ourimbah, N.S.W., on 
Acacia galls, Dec., 1925. Coll. W. 
W. Froggatt. (D.S.I.R.O. Collec- 
tion.) 
Id' (Paratype) No. 2055, leaf-stem gall. 
(D.S.I.R.O. Collection.) 
1 9 IcP (Holotype: allotype) Box Hill, Vic- 
toria. "Bred from Galls with Gall- 
flies.” No. 16747 (identified by L. 
F. Graham as P. nigromaculatus Cam- 
eron) . On the same card are a species 
of Chalcidoidea. (D.S.I.R.O. Col- 
lection.) 
2 9 1cP "Blukistan”; gall on E. obliques, 
May-June, 1888, Smeatin. (S.A.M. 
Collection.) [The writing on these 
labels is very indistinct, but the lo- 
cality, I think, is "Blukistan.”] 
2 9 Botanical Gardens (No. 2080), Dec., 
1930. Coll. W. W. Froggatt. (D.S.I. 
R.O. Collection.) 
19 16^ "Main.” Coll. W. W. Froggatt. 
The material on which this paper is based 
was kindly lent by Dr. A. J. Nicholson, Chief, 
