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(From. a single specimen, the same magnification.) 



Male: Not known. 



Described from a single female specimen, minutien-mounted, 

 from the collections of the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, labelled 

 "Brisbane.— H. Hacker.— 8-8-11." 



Habitat: Australia — Brisbane, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 1187, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the 

 above specimen, minutien (abdomen separated), plus a slide 

 bearing a fore wing and antennae. 



Stomatoceroides new genus. 



Female: Similar to Stomatoceras Kirby, but the postmarginal 

 vein well developed, longer than the short marginal vein, four 

 times the length of the stigmal and slender. Antenna? 11-jointed, 

 inserted below the ventral ends of the eyes, the club solid, only 

 slightly shorter than the long proximal funicle joint (a third 

 shorter), the scape simple, long, the pedicel short, the flagellum 

 cylindrical and a single ring joint present. Posterior femora 

 without large teeth beneath, but their ventral margin crenulate 

 or wavy, there being three sloping convexities, the distal two 

 bearing a continuous series of minute, black comblike teeth (along 

 the distal half of the margin). Scutellum terminating in a small, 

 bidentate plate. Metathorax with no dorsolateral projections. 

 Vertex very thin, the cephalic ocellus within the scrobicular cavity, 

 the lateral ocelli distinct from the eye margins. Pronotum thin 

 mesad, broadening laterad. Abdomen not produced distad, 

 normal, the second segment largest. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Stomatoceroides hicolor new species. 



Female: Length, 4.10 mm. 



Opaque black, the legs dark reddish excepting nearly the 

 whole of the upper margin of the posterior femur, the coxae, the 

 proximal halves of the tibiae and the same portions of the cephalic 

 and intermediate femora, all of which are black. Venation brown, 

 the fore wings with a distinct, rounded brownish spot under the 

 marginal vein (against it) and with a larger stain distad more or 

 less obscure and cephalad. Head and thorax rugoso-punctate, 

 the spaces between the punctures with fine grooves, the abdomen, 

 finely densely polygonally reticulated, but the second segment 



