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CONOSTIGMUS GIRAULTI, sp. nOV. 



9 . Head black ; thorax brownish-yellow ; abdomen 

 golden-yellow ; legs and first four antennal- joints lemon- 

 yellow ; rest of antennae brown. Structure as in the other 

 species, but the abdomen is distinctly longer than the head 

 and thorax united. Antennae 11-jointed; scape equal to next 

 seven joints combined ; pedicel short, scarcely longer than 

 wide; funicle-joints gradually widening towards the apex, all 

 transverse, distinctly wider than long; last joint twice as long 

 as wide, two-thirds length of scape. Forewings not reaching 

 apex of abdomen; moderately broad, the apex squarely 

 rounded, a little infuscated ; stigma much longer than wide ; 

 stigmal vein fully twice as long as the stigma ; venation fus- 

 cous. Length, 1"30 mm. 



Hab. — North Queensland: Babinda. Described from 

 one female caught by sweeping foliage in jungle, October 28, 

 1911 (A. A. Girault). 



Type. — I. 2019, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a slide. 



CONOSTIGMUS NIGRICORNIS, Sp. 110V. 



9 . Shining-black ; legs (except the coxae) ferruginous, 

 the femora brownish; antennal scape suffused with red. Fore- 

 wings moderately broad, the apex squarely rounded; infus- 

 cated, the infuscation darkest in the centre ; venation almost 

 black; stigma semicircular; stigmal vein almost twice as long 

 as the stigma. Antennae 11-jointed, scarcely widening towards 

 the apex ; scape equal to next three joints combined ; pedicel 

 slender, two and a half times as long as wide; first funicle- 

 joint as long as the pedicel; the others gradually shortening 

 but all distinctly longer than wide. Thorax distinctly longer 

 than wide; abdomen longer than the head and throax united. 

 Length, 1"75 mm. 



Hab. — North Queensland: Nelson. Described from three 

 females caught by sweeping in forest, August, 1913 (A. P. 

 Dodd). 



Type. — I. 2020, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 ■a tag, plus a slide bearing head, antennae, and forewings. 



Table of Australian species of Gonostigmus, Dahlbom. 



Males ; females. 

 I. Shining-black. 

 Female. Legs (except the coxa?) ferru- 

 ginous, femora brown ; antenna? 



black, the scape suffused with red nigricornis, Dodd 

 II. Thorax and abdomen more or less 

 brown or yellow. 

 A. Female. Thorax and abdomen 

 wholly uniformly yellow, without 



