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of hind wing sooty, the fore wing also sooty at same place, accented proximad (a little ovei 

 half way to apex from end of venation) in a large ovate black spot narrowly connected along 

 the middle to a smaller ovate spot in center of blade farther proximad (just distad of end 

 of venation but in midlongitudinal line of blade). Petiole distinctly longer than wide but 

 not as long as hind coxa?. Marginal vein elongate, nearly as long as the submarginal ; marginal 

 fringes of fore wing short, at widest part about 32 lines of dense discal cilia. Scape slender; 

 pedicel shorter than funicle 1 which is suffused with yellow; funicles 2 and 3 subequal, longest, 

 thrice longer than wide, the following joints regularly shortening, 8 longer than wide, about 

 half the length of 2. Club long. Strigil strong. Hind tibial spur single. Cephalic femur 

 fuscous toward base. A groove on scutum at distal third at meson. No sclerites between 

 scutum and scutellum, the latter very long, rectangular, longer than wide; axilla? widely 

 separated. Parapsidal furrows complete. Thorax polygonally reticulate or scaly. Propodeum 

 long, longer than scutum, with two curved median carina? forking from base and a long, oblique 

 (meso-caudad) one running to meson at apex but originating at a fovea at cephalic margin far 

 laterad. Abdominal segments subequal, moderate in length. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female captured in jungle, September 15. 1913. 



Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: Xo. Hy2i-16, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a slide. 



3. OOCTONUS PROMETHEUS new species. 



Female : — Length, 2.00 mm. 



Very similar (o gig as but differing in having the femora black, in being a little smaller, 

 in lacking a median groove on distal scutum, in lacking the lateral carina? on the propodeum 

 and in having the distal spot on fore wing deeper black and not quite as large, more clearly 

 delimited. Otherwise (except in sculpture) identical with gig OS with which I have compared it. 

 Thorax finely polygonally scaly, the propodeum subglabrous, with a distinct median channel 

 whose margins are carinated, otherwise plane. Scutellum as long as the long propodeum, 

 simple, the posteutellum transverse linear. Lateral margin of propodeum carinated and a few 

 interlacing carina? caudo-laterad. Axilla- widely separated. Median channel of propodeum 

 narrowing caudad. 



2laJe : — Not known. 



Described from one female captured in jungle, February 11, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2447, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with type 

 of Gonatocerus renani Girault. 



Genus COSMOCOMOIDEA Howard. 



There are no Australian members of this genus, the two species formerly placed here 

 belonging to Gonatocerus Nees. The genus belongs to this tribe. 



Tribe GONATOCEEINI. 

 ELRTOCHOMOEPHA new genus. 

 Form slender, graceful, the abdomen long, slender, longer than the head and thorax 

 combined, the ovipositor inserted at base, long, exserted for some length, the extruded portion 

 over a third that of the abdomen ; legs normal, the tarsi 5-jointed. Thorax long, the parapsidal 

 furrows complete, the sclerites normal, no phragma. Antenna? 12-joiuted, the club 2-jointed. 

 Fore wings somewhat as in Signiplwra, the marginal fringes moderately short (the longest 

 about a fourth the greatest wing Avidth), the discal ciliation sparse. Hind wings rather short, 

 slender. 



