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Basitarsus of middle legs about as long the three succeeding 

 joints combined ; tibial spur about as long as the basitarsus. 



Measurements in mm. : Fore wing, length 0.66 ; greatest width 

 0,032. Length of marginal vein 0.16; length of submarginal 0.22. 

 Length of marginal fringe 0.0192. Middle legs, length of tarsi 0.16; 

 length of basitarsus 0.0576 ; length of tibial spur 0.0696. Ovipositor 

 sheaths exserted 0.04 beyond apex of abdomen; however, this may 

 be a distortion. Scape 0.1244 long by 0.0304 wide. Pedicel 0.0456 

 long by 0.0280 wide. First f unicle joint 0.0304 long by 0.0224 .wide ; 

 second 0.0360 long by 0.03128 wide ; third 0.0368 long by 0.0360 wide. 

 First club joint 0.0440 long by wide; second 0.040 long by 0.0480 

 wide ; third 0.0304 long by 0.0296 wide. 



Kedescribed from the type female in the Queensland Museum. 

 No data on slide label other than name and designation " Female 

 type." 



46. COCCOPHAGUS AURICAPUT Girault 



Plate 8, Figure 53 ; Plate 11, Figure 102 



Coccophagus auricaput Girault, Memoirs Queensland Museum, vol. 4, 1915, 

 p. 49. 



This species must be recognized mainly from Girault's original 

 description. The body of the type female is squeezed out from under 

 the cover glass and is obscured in the excess of balsam. The head is 

 crushed and in fragments on the slide. It is possible to observe 

 some characters of taxonomic value not mentioned in the original 

 description. 



Scutel'lum transverse and furnished with three pairs of bristles. 



Mandibles with a distinct ventral tooth and a broad truncation. 



Antennae. Scape not seen. Pedicel plainly longer than wide and 

 as long as first f unicle joint. Funicle joints very slightly increasing 

 in length distad, almost subequal in length and width, and about 

 twice as long as wide. Club about as long as funicle joints combined 

 and not much wider than distal joint. A drawing of a portion of one 

 antenna is shown in Figure 53. The apical funicle joint and the 

 club of the other antenna remain on the slide and they differ slightly 

 from those figured in that the first two club joints are plainly wider 

 than the apical funicle joint. 



The following quotation from the original description pertains to 

 characters no longer discernible. "Orange yellow, the abdomen 

 black, the legs lemon yellow except the dusky hind coxae. Antennae 

 lemon yellow. * * * Fore wings densely, finely ciliate, the stig- 

 mal vein short, sessile (fig. 102) . Hind wings acutely pointed with 

 about eight lines of fine discal cilia where widest. * * * Wings 

 hyaline. 



" From one female taken in forest, January 4, 1912. 



