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Habitat. North Queensland (Nelson, near Cairns). Type. 

 A male tagmounted plus a slide bearing antennae and fore- 

 wings. 



Genus Cremastoscelio Dodd. 



(1) Cremastoscelio nigripes sp. nov. 



9. Length, 1.25 mm. 



Like flavipes Dodd, but coxae and femora fuscous, tibiae suffused 

 with yellow; forewings narrower. The mandibles of both this 

 species and the type of the genus are broad, 4-dentate, the outer tooth 

 the largest, the others small. $. Unknown. 



Described from a single specimen caught while sweeping in 

 forest, May 10, 1912 (A. A. Girault). 



Habitat. North Queensland (Nelson, near Cairns). Type. 

 A female on a slide. 



Genus Plastogryon Kieffer. 



(1) Elastogryon "aureus sp. nov. 



$. Length, 1.25 mm. 



Head black ; thorax bright brownish yellow, the scutellum much 

 darker; abdomen golden yellow, the apical third dorsad, black; legs 

 and antennal scape golden yellow; rest of antennae brown. 



Head transverse, as wide as the thorax ; thorax a little longer than 

 wide ; very finely sculptured, pubescent ; mesonotum without furrows. 

 Abdomen sessile, as long as the head and thorax united, almost as 

 wide as the thorax; first segment rather long, striate; second a little 

 longer than the first, finely polygonally sculptured ; remaining segments 

 short. 



Antennae 12-jointed; scape very slender, equal to next 4 joints com- 

 bined; pedicel slender, twice as long as wide; funicle joints filiform, 

 all a little longer than wide; first and second funicle joints a little 

 longer than the following ones; last joint as long as the pedicel. 



Forewings when closed extending well beyond apex of abdomen ; 

 moderately broad, the apex rather rounded ; a little infuscated ; mar- 

 ginal cilia moderately short; discal cilia fine and dense; submarginal 

 vein attaining the costa distinctly before the middle of the wing; 

 marginal vein one-half longer than the stigmal, which is rather short; 

 postmarginal vein one-third longer than the marginal. 9. Unknown. 



Described from one specimen caught by sweeping along 

 military road, March 3, 1912 (A. A. Girault). 



Habitat. North Queensland (Thursday Is., Torres Strait). 

 Type. A male on a slide. 



