:)32 MEMOins OF THE QrEEXHLAXV MI'SEVM. 



uellmarkeil i-ariua; scape of aiiteiiiife long about one third of the whole length of the latter, 

 smooth but minutely pilose, tlagelluni simi}le, granulose, lO-joiuted. Thorax: robust, prono- 

 tum margined anteriorly; scutelluni large oval convex overhanging the median segment, 

 bidentate at apex, posteriorly with a very narrow submarginal furrow or channel; median 

 segment short, truncate, bearing on its posterior vertical face a median looped carina and 

 two lateral oblique carinse; wings hyaline with sub-basal and post-median broad transverse 

 fuscous fasciie; legs minutely pilose, posterior femora edged posteriorly with numerous 

 extremely minute teeth. Abdomen subsessile smooth and shining, the basal abdominal 

 segment as long as the rest united. Head, thorax and dorsal surface of abdijmen black; 

 apex of scape and of antenna.', tegula? of wings, the legs, and sides and ventral surface of 

 abdomen blood-red. Length, ^ -^ """■ Kxp. S nun." 



Eahitdt : Townsville, Queensland. 



Ty/ir: Hope Department, Oxford. England. 



Resemlilcs very closely .S. victoria but the marginal vein longer, plainly longer and 

 both the snbfascia distinctly longer, esjiecially the distal one which extends distad half way 

 to the apex. Also, the second abdominal segment is somewhat longer in fasciatipciniis, the 

 third and following segments short but (segments 3-.j) nearly twice the length of the corre- 

 sponding segments in victorio. Otherwise, the two much alike. 



Among a small collection of Chalcidoidea given to me by Jlr. F. 1'. Dodd. 1 found a 

 species of Stomdtoccran which agrees with the description of S. fiisciatipciinis Bingham. 

 Also it was mounted on a card containing a flat lepidopterous cocoon, in general outline 

 shaped like a spool, from which ]irnjected an empty pupal case and also a number of small 

 ants. This card was lalielled " Townsville, (Queensland, 20-5-02. F. T. Dodd.'' Thus, this 

 specimen (a female) is from tie type locality of the Binghamian species, agrees with the 

 description and appears to be a part of the same material, since its insect associates agree 

 with those denoted by F. P. Dodd. Comparing this specimen (which I have identified as 

 fasciiitiixiiiiis and deposited in the Queensland Museum at Brisbane) with ricloiia. the 

 difference between them becomes more aii])arent and is as pointed out above. 



In the origiaal description this species is nundiered 7 and refeience to a connected 

 paper by F. P. Dodd (Trans. Ent. Society of London, May 2S), UMH!, p. 123) sliows that the 

 specimen is " from the pupiB of the ease moth Ardiosteres vwrctonclla .\Yn\k., the larv;e of 

 which live in the nests of snuill black tree ants." The associated ants are stated to be 

 Ciemaxioiiastir licricep.i Smith. 



A balsam slide bearing an antenna .'niil :\ jiosterior leg goes with the card mount. 



3. STOMATOCERAS NIGRISCAPUS (iuault. Female. 



Lenf;tli. -I.."i0 mm. 



Black, the ]>osterior coxa and femur red as is also the second abdominal segment. 

 Fore wings witli a subrectangular fuscous dash half w.ay across it from the nuirginal vein 

 -iind an obscure fuscous area in the cephalic half of the wing half way to the apex from the 

 stigmal vein. Marginal vein sliort. the stigmal very short, cndy about a fourth the length of 

 the marginal; |i(istnunginal \ein somewhat longer tluin the niarginal, twice the length of the 

 stigmal; \enation black. Posterior femora with the tine black teeth along distal half or 

 slightly more. Last .ioint of antennal funicle somewhat longer than wide, more than half 

 the length of the club, the tirst funicle .ioint about half tlie length of the pedicel, the second 

 somewhat the longest, subeqnal to the pedicel. Otherwise as in other species. Corrected 

 descri})tion. 



lltihitat : tJurdonvale (Cairns). (Queensland. Forest, December 4, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type: No. HySilHH, (|)ueensland .Museum, Bl-isbane. Tag and slide. 



One female, Bribie Island, November '■',. lili:! (11. Hacker). 'I'lie tiji of ciiudal fcnnn- 

 uas dark red and venter of segment 3 of alulonien. 



