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noticeable pubescence. Knees red in both. Funicle 2 subequal to pedicel, 1 a little over half 
the length of the pedicel. 
From one female captured by H. Hacker and from the collections of the Queensland 
Museum. 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3407, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
Dedicated to W. F. Kirby. 
The species varius has a distinct pair of carine across the short meson of pronotum 
and not close together; nigriscapus has the same faintly and so has kirbyi. 
24. STOMATOCERAS RATZEBURGEI new species. 
Female :—Length, 3.85 mm. 
In the table of species runs to hazlitti but the abdomen is black and the hind cox 
except at distal third; the club is only slightly reddish at extreme tip; funicle 2 is all black. 
The large black area from dorsal edge of the caudal femur (laterad) is larger, extending 
nearly (three quarters) across to ventral edge (only about half way in hazlitti). Dorsad the 
abdomen shows no large shallow punctures until segment 7 and fine sculpture until segment 
5. The fore wing differs in that the distal infuscated spot is not joined to that under the 
marginal vein so that no erescentic loop is formed and the infuseation under the margmal 
vein forms a complete, uniform, distinct cross-stripe, the accentuation under the marginal 
vein not pronounced; also the distal infuscation forms a second cross-stripe which, however, 
is incomplete caudad and narrowly so cephalad. The mesopleurum is transversely (longi- 
tudinally) striate in both species. Funicle 1 a little longer than wide. 
From one female caught in October (F. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3408, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type 
hazlittt. 
Dedicated to Johann Christian Ratzeburg. 
TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF STOMATOCERAS KIRBY. 
FEMALES. 
Species seen by me bear a deep median channel on propodeum with carinated margins 
and a distinct lateral ruga in the place usually occupied by true lateral carine, this ruga 
forking distad ferming a more or less distinct Y. Also the distal segment of abdomen has a 
dorsal median carina except in aureus. 
(Types of my species re-examined. ) 
Black species. 
1. Legs blood red (excluding coxz and tarsi). 
Seape blood red. 
First two funicle joints blood red and a part of 3; coxw red; abdomen red along 
median line of venter and side of base; funicle 1 plainly longer than wide; propo- 
deum and abdomen as in fuscipennis. Punctures on cephalic mesal part of scutum 
smaller but quite as dense as those on pronotum. Scrobes finely transversely lined . . 
hackert Girault. 
First two funicle joints blood red; funicle 1 subquadrate; abdomen wholly black; 
propodeum with a deep median channel whose sides are carinated and closed at 
both ends; dorsal abdomen glabrous to segment 7. Hind coxe black at proximal 
half. Punctures on cephalo-mesal part of scutum smaller and less dense than 
those of the pronotum .. a ie att 3c .. fuscipennis Girault. 
