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aspect arranged in a triangle, the a|iicul cuie at tip. the liasnl two at lateral margin, one on 

 each side just beyond proximal half (sometimes, it' the segments are stretched, split 

 transversely into two more or less rectangular spots) ; a small triangular spot at apex (eephalad) 

 of each axilla, also jet black, as well as the ce])halic margin of scutelliim between the parapsidal 

 furrow ends. Base of fore wing very slightly dusky and a curved, narrow black line down 

 jiropodeum on each side near margin. Head and thorax finely reticulate. Jfandibles tridentate. 

 First funicle joint twice longer than wide; 12 and :! distinctly shorter, not much longer than 

 wide, 2 a little the longer; .'S subeipial to pedicel; idub distinct, ovate, without a terminal nipple, 

 its joints wider than long. Funicle and club with closely applied, rather coarse hairs which 

 arise at the base of each joint and extend its length (exce|it first funicle joint where they 

 arise farther distad). 



Described from five females reared in cnnnei-tiou with a cecidomyiid gall on the stem of 

 a .young Euciihiptiis corilinbosu (blondwood) but whicli was intVstcd with unarmored coccids, 

 November 13. 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Northern Queensland (Uordonvale near Cairns). 



Types: No. By 2035, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag, one female 

 and a head on a slide. 



6. COCCOPHAGUS SOPHIA new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Etniale: — Length. O.o(} mm. 



Golden yellow, the wings hyaline and closely allieil with aiirroUi (iirault bnt the first 

 funicle joint is not globular and distinctly shorter than the second but all three joints of the 

 funicle are distinctly longer than wide and subefjual, the pedicel slightly shorter than each. 

 Also, the club is more slender and the abdomen is not dusky. The hind wings are very narrow', 

 distinctly not as wide as the caudal marginal fringes of those wings (in aureola, nearly as 

 wide at widest part as these fringes). 



Described from two females reared from .-in alcyrodiil. November 9, 1911 (A. A. 

 Girault). 



Hahitdt : Northern Queensland (Cairns). 



Ti/pe^: No. My S0S6, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the aliove specimens on a slide, 



~. COCCOPHAGUS AURICAPUT new species. 



Female: — I^ength, 0.08 mm. 



Orange yellow, the abdomen black, the legs lemon yell^^\ exi-i-jit the dusky hind coxa. 

 Antennse lemon yellow, the funicle joints increasing in length distad. :t longest, nearly twice 

 as long as wide, 1 snbequal to the pedicel, distinctly longer than wide: club joints longer than 

 wide, about snbequal to funicle 2. Fore wings densely, finely ciliate, the stigmal vein short, 

 sessile. Hind wings acutely pointed, with abmit eight lines of fine discal cilia where widest. 

 Middle tibial spur long and slender. M.-indililes bident,-ite. the second tooth broadly truncate. 

 Wings hyaline. 



From one female taken in forest. .lanuary 4, UM'j. 



Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hyi9S~. Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the s|i(Hinicii on a slide with that 

 of Panisraiioideii ilieleiiai. 



8. COCCOPHAGUS BOSWELLI new species. 

 Female: — Length. (l.Sil mm. 



Deep orange yellow, the scutellnm lemon yidUnv. the abdomen and rlnli jet lilack. thi- 



fore wing with a black cross-stripe from a little over the ]a-oximal half of the marginal vein, 



its distal margin oblique. Club whitish at extrenu' base and extreiru' tip; funicle 3 white. 



Valves of ovipositiu' shortly extruded. Kuuicle :! a little the shortest, ail nearly equal an. I 



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