342 MEMOISS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



2. STOMATOCEROIDES NIGRICORNIS GiraiUt. Female. 

 Length, 4.1 ram. Slender. 



Opaque black, the base of the abdomen shining, marked with dark red (garnet) as 

 follows: The teguliB, tarsi, knees, tips of tibia; and a spot at base of posterior femur (ventrad 

 and exteriorI_y). Fore wings with two obscure brownish cross-bands, one at the marginal vein 

 and the other nearly half way from there to apex; the first accented under the marginal vein,, 

 the second more noticeable a short distance out from the costal margin. Venation black. 

 Eugoso-punctate, the abdomen distad with fine polygonal reticulation. 



Habitat : Brisbane, Queensland. 



Tjipc: No. Hy 1188, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Minution mount and a slide. 



3. STOMATOCEROIDES VERSICOLOR Girault. Female. 

 Length, 4 mm. More robust than the preceding. 



Opaque black, the proximal half of the abdomen and the caudal coxa and femur con- 

 trasting, bright orange yellow with some reddisli mixed in ; legs otherwise black, the kneee 

 brownish; antenna; black; tegulas black. Wings opaque, the venation dark, the marginal vein 

 with a very distinct, subelongate dark brown spot under it which does not tend to cross the 

 wing but is wider (proximodistad) than long (cephalo-caudad). Stigmal vein curved slightly 

 cephalad, the body more robust than in the type species, the antennae much the same but the 

 posterior femora beneath with the fine, black, comblike teeth only along the distal third. 



Habitat : Brisbane, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 1189, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Miuutien and a slide. 



4. STOMATOCEROIDES NIGRIPES GiraiUt. Female. 



Length, .5 nun. 



Opaque black, the tarsi fuscous, the wings hyaline, the venation dark with only a trace 

 of staining under it. Like versicolor but the teetli of the posterior femur along as much as the 

 distal two thirds of the ventral margin. Antenna' as in the other species but the funicle joints 

 are longer. 



Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. From pupa of " red ant moth,'' 7-11-03. 



Type: No. Hyli:W. Qucnislnnd Muspuni. IViislniiie. Card and a slide. 



5. STOMATOCEROIDES NIGRICORPUS Girault. Female. 



Length, 3.20 mm. 



Black, the wings hyaline and opaque witli the exception of a small, subtriangular fuscous 

 spot under the marginal vein. Differs from nigripes in being more slender and shorter, in having 

 the spot on fore wing and in the caudal femur; the teeth on the latter in nigripes running 

 farther proximad while in tliis species they run only to middle; also a marked convexity distad 

 beneath, only indicated in nigripes. Antenna? in l)oth species much alike. Differing from other 

 species in coloration. Projmdeum witli two median carinte, which are some distance from each 

 other. 



Huhital: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queenshind. Forest, December 5, 1913. 



Type: No. Hy34()9, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Two tags and a slide. 



6. STOMATOCEROIDES RUBRIPES Girault. Feinale. 



Length, 3.7.5 mm. 



Nearest in color pattern to biculor but legs red excepting co-xiu (posterior coxa; reddish 

 distad) and the cephalic femur (the intermediate femur slightly blackened in middle) ; tegulfe- 

 also red. Moreover, the distal fiuiicle joint is longer in this species as is also the marginal vein; 

 stain under fhe latter small, not conspicuous and no second stain distad. Ventral margin of 

 posterior femur nearly straight, not distinctly wavy as in bicolor. Black. Posterior coxa) may 

 be nearly black, or nearly all red; other legs may be wholly red except coxa\ 



Habitat: Hambledon Junction and Cairns, Queensland. Forest. .Tune. 



Type: No. Hy -3410, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Tag and slide. 



