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flagellum and hind tibia\ black. Occiput dusky. Caudal margin of the black of scutum 

 prolonged caudad a little at meson. Tip of ovipositor valves jet black. Wings hyaline. 

 Funicles 4 and 5 longest. 4 narrower than 5, each somewhat longer than wide; joints 2 and 3 

 a little longer than wide, 1 subquadrate, the pedicel subequal to 5 ; C and 7 subequal, slightly 

 shorter than 4 or 5. Club rather long. Longest marginal cilia of fore wing between a fourth 

 and a fifth of the greatest wing width where there are about 25 lines of fine discal ciliation. 

 Fore wings of the graceful type but not narrow. Valves of ovipositor slightly extruded. 



Hale: — Xot known. 



Described from one female taken in jungle, March 6, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Cooktown, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy'2454, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



11. GONATOCERUS CIRCUMVAGUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 2.25 mm. 



Like mirissimus but the abdomen and the hind tibia? are black, the first funicle joint 

 over twice longer than wide and slenderer, joints 2 and 3 longest, distinctly over twice the 

 length of the pedicel. More like poincarei but the hind tibia? and the pedicel are black, the 

 longitudinal black stripe on the fore wing from immediate apex and is longer, abruptly fading 

 but the fainter portion continuous, not broken, leaving a faint, proximal spot in the mid- 

 longitudinal line. Thorax shining black, with no distinct sculpture, the pronotum long and 

 quadrate and with either a groove or a carina along each side like parapsidal furrows; 

 mesoprgescutuni absent. Scutellum very long. Hind tibial spurs double. Fore wings somewhat 

 broader than those in poincarei. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in jungle, September 15, 1913 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: Xo. HyS455, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag (with 

 the type of G. carlylei). 



12. GONATOCERUS HUMBOLDTI Girault. Genotype of Agonatocerus. 

 Agonatocerus humboldti Giratilt. 



This species was originally described erroneously, parts of the antenna? having been lost 

 while two pieces of them became so disposed in the mount of the single specimen as to make 

 these organs appear 13-jointed. Also, the median sulcus of the scutum is in reality a yellow 

 line down the meson ; the lateral margins of the scutum are also yellow. The species is valid 

 but resembles huyghensi and metschnilcoffi. From the former it differs in the color of the 

 thorax and abdomen, its slender build and narrow fore wings; and from metsehnikoffi in 

 having the yellow on the thorax, more yellow at base- of abdomen, in the color of the legs 

 and the more graceful body and appendages. Also, the distal half of the scape is colored. 

 The four funicle distal joints are each about twice longer than wide. 



Compared with types of all Australian species. 



13. GONATOCERUS AUSTRALICA Girault. Genotype of Gonatoceroides Girault. 

 Gonatoceroides australica Girault. 



This species appears to be valid but should be compared with the following from which 

 it seems to differ as follows: From goethei in that the legs are colored and all of thorax, 

 being otherwise the same as goethei; from haeckeli in lacking the swollen hind femora present 

 in that species; from huyghensi in having funicle 4 longer than 6 and not longer than the 

 pedicel; from faseiativentris in not having pleurum or lateral line of abdomen yellow and there 

 is no regular discal ciliation under the marginal vein but only a V-shaped line; from darwini 

 in that the fore wings are as in haeckeli. 



In the species faseiativentris, the so-called yellow stripes across the abdomen are the 

 incisions between the segments. 



