MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



8. GONATOCERUS ANGUST1VENTRIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 1.50 mm. 



Black; abdomen a little suffused with brown; knees and tarsi yellow; antennal scape 



suffused with yellow. 



With the habitus of renani Girault and grotiusi Girault. Scutum with a median groove; 

 scutum and seutellum with fine, polygonal scaly sculpture. Propodeum with a groove on each 

 side of the meson, the grooves rather widely separated, also with a carina near each lateral 

 margin, in the dorsal aspect. Abdomen taperiug at its base. Antenna? 11-jointed, first funicle 

 joint much shorter and narrower than the pedicel; second distinctly longer than first, as long as 

 pedicel; third distinctly longer than second, three times as long as wide; 4-8 very slightly and 

 gradually shortening, the eighth as long as the pedicel; club almost as long as the three 

 preceding joints united. Fore wings long, rather broad, but of the graceful type; somewhat 

 infuscated; longest marginal cilia equal to one eighth greatest wing width; discal cilia absent 

 beneath the marginal vein, not tine, dense, arranged in about 30 rows. 



Mule: — Not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in open forest. 1,300 feet, September 

 !(i. 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Kuranda, (Queensland. 



Type: Xo. Hy M52, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



9. GONATOCERUS SHAKESPEAREI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.35 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a distance equal 

 to from a third to half the length of the abdomen. 



Long and slender, the abdomen longer than the rest of the body. Golden yellow, the 

 wings hyaline; flagellum, dorsal edge of scape, valves of ovipositor, a cuneate marking on each 

 side of median line of cephalic half of scutum; a large triangular spot covering most of each 

 parapside; center of seutellum at base (in one specimen down whole of meson broadly); 

 n of propodeum broadly and distal one or two tarsal joints, dusky black. First four 

 funicle joints subequal, subglobular, that portion of the funicle slenderer than the following; 

 joints 5-8 of funicle subequal. each wider and over twice the length of any of the joints 1-4, 7 

 a little shorter than the others. Discal cilia of fore wing disappearing some distance out from 

 apex of venation, not der.se except disto-cephalad yet well distributed over the blade, the fore 

 wings moderately broad (aboul !<i lines of cilia where broadest), oblately rounded at apex; 

 marginal cilia of fore wing indistinct, very short, absent around apex. Caudal wings rather 

 broad (about five lines of discal cilia), the caudal marginal cilia about as long (or not quite) 

 as the blade is wide. Thorax longitudinally shagreened, no grooves. Abdomen tapering toward 

 base. Proximal tarsal joint long and slender (except in cephalic legs). 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from two females captured by sweeping in forest. October 10. 1913 (G. F. 

 Hill). 



Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory and Cloncurry, Queensland. 



Tapes: No. Hy MSB, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimens on a slide (Port 

 Darwin). 



A female of this species was captured at Cloncurry, April 13, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). The 

 specimen, evidently a variant, bad somewhat different fore wings and slightly longer funicle 

 joints but otherwise the same. The cephalic tibiae are armed with scattered, distinct, short, 

 thorn-like spines. 



10. GONATOCERUS BOSWELLI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.05 mm. 



Golden yellow; two rather broad dusky stripes across dorsum of abdomen, the first a 

 little distad of middle. Cephalic half of scutum, seutellum except the lateral margins, pro- 

 podeum excepting a narrow yellow line some distance laterad of meson, tegular, postscutellum, 



