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Hab. — Queensland : Cairns district (several females on 

 leaves of sugarcane, December, 1915, A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — A female on a tag. 



Differing from the other species of the genus in having 

 the first four antennal joints testaceous. The variation in the 

 colour of the legs is of interest. 



Stomatoceroides rubripes, Girault. 



Two females, one male, reared from larvae of a Tineid 

 inhabiting galls on Eucalyptus platyphyUa, Cairns district, 

 October, 1915, A. P. Dodd. 



Stomatoceras gracilicorpus, Girault. 

 This is a parasite of the sugarcane bud-moth, Opogonm 

 glycyphaga, Meyriek ; one male, one female were bred from 

 that host, Cairns district, October, 1915, A. P. Dodd. 



Family ELASMIDAE. 

 Elasmus telicotae, n. sp. 



9 . Length, 2 mm. Head and thorax rather dark 

 metallic-green, the postscutellum lemon-yellow, the thorax 

 otherwise unmarked with yellow ; abdomen intense orange, 

 the base and apex moderately broadly metallic, the orange 

 portion unmarked ; legs pale lemon-yellow, the posterior coxae 

 metallic for about dorsal third ; antennal scape lemon-yellow, 

 the pedicel and flagellum brownish; tegulae lemon-yellow. 



Head with the usual umbilicate punctures ; scutum with 

 dense stiff black hairs or bristles, the scutellum naked except 

 for two bristles against either lateral margin ; scutum and 

 scutellum finely densely scaly. Abdomen slender; with a row 

 of black setae at sutures of segments. Forewings hyaline; 

 moderately broad. Pedicel slightly shorter than funicle 3 

 which is two-thirds longer than wide, 1 a little longer; club 

 joint 1 a little longer than 2, slightly longer than wide; two 

 ring joints, the first minute, the second distinct. 



d . Length, 1'60 mm. Anterior and intermediate coxae 

 metallic at extreme base, the posterior pair almost wholly 

 metallic; last two pairs of femora metallic except at base and 

 apex; basal half of abdomen ventrad, and a lesser area dorsad, 

 orange somewhat suffused dusky. 



Antennal scape rather short and stout; pedicel short but 

 much larger than any of the first three funicle joints; one 

 short ring joint; funicle joints 1-3 very short, each bearing 

 a -long slender ramus; 4 very long, over twice as long as 1-3 

 united and much longer than the club, its margins irregularly 

 serrate like the rami; club joint 1 slightly longer than 2, 3 a 

 mere nipple. 



