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Nelson, North Queensland, October 9th, 1912; and a female at 

 Proserpine, Queensland, November 4th, 1912. Oligosita pulchra, 

 Girault, sweeping grass near Cromarty (near Ayr), Queensland, 

 November 8th, 1912 ; also at Ayr, November 6th, 1912, from 

 the window of a smith's shop, a female. Oligosita sacra, Girault, 

 from a window, Nelson, North Queensland, October 10th, 1912. 

 Aphelinoidea howardii, Girault, a female, November 6th, 1912, 

 from a window in a smithy, Ayr, Queensland. 



6. A Second New Species of Abbella from Australia. 



Genus Abbella, Girault. 



Abbella mira, n. sp. (normal position). 



Female. — Length, 0-75 mm. Bather slender. Bright lemon- 

 yellow, marked with velvety black as follows : — The face beneath the 

 eyes, the pronotum, at least three large spots in a longitudinal line 

 on each side of the distal half of the abdomen, under low magnifica- 

 tion appearing like three transverse black stripes across the abdomen 

 (sometimes a fourth spot near base), and a large subcrescentric sub- 

 stigmal spot reaching half-way to the caudal wing margin and 

 actually continued to that margin more obscurely after an inter- 

 ruption. Otherwise as in subflava. " 



Differs from subflava in the larger substigmal spot and nearly 

 complete banding of the wing, in bearing shorter marginal cilia 

 around the fore wing, and in bearing a short oblique line of large 

 discal cilia (4-5 cilia) from the stigmal vein partly hidden by the 

 substigmal spot. The fore wings bear about twenty lines of discal 

 ciliation around the apex, but only a few of the lines are very long. 



(From four specimens, magnified as in the preceding descriptions.) 



Male. — Not known. 



Described from four female specimens captured July 11th, 

 1912, at Townsville by sweeping grass; November 6th and 7th, 

 1912, from windows of a smith's shop, Ayr; and on November 

 8th, 1912, by sweeping from the Ayr-Townsville train between 

 Cromarty and Stewart's Creek. The specimen of subflava 

 formerly recorded from Townsville is the foregoing female. 



Habitat. — Australia : Townsville, Ayr, and Stewart's Creek, 

 North Queensland. 



Type. — No. Hy 1272, Queensland Museum, Brisbane ; one 

 female on a slide (Ayr, November 6th), mounted with two 

 specimens of A. xanthogaster. 



7. Sixteenth Australian Species of Gonatocerus. 

 Genus Gonatocerus, Nees. 

 Gonatocerus nox, n. sp. 

 Female. — Length, 0-75 mm. Slender. 



Similar to Gonatocerus cingulatus of Perkins, but the whole body 

 uniformly sooty brownish, nearly black, coloured like most species of 

 Anaplioidea or Anaphes ; also in the antennae, the fourth funicle joint 



