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than in sieboldi which this species resembles while the coxae and 

 abdominal petiole are orange yellow like the rest of the legs. Also 

 the flagellum beyond joint 2 of the funicle is deep black and the 

 funicle joints are all decidedly shorter, the three distal funicle 

 joint s nearly as in rousseaui. 

 Male: Not known. 



Habit at: Australia — Kuranda, Queensland. 

 Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen with the type of rousseaui on a slide. 

 Dedicated to Benjamin Franklin. 



Genus Ooctonus Haliday. 

 1. Ooctonus saintpierrei new species. 

 Female: Length, 1.20 mm. 



Black, the wings without pattern; petiole of abdomen, which 

 is long as in Polynema, and all of legs except cephalic coxae, deep 

 orange yellow. With the habitus of Polynema and the antennae, 

 venation and abdomen of Cosmocomoidea morrilli Howard with 

 which it is congeneric. Scape concolorous with the legs, the funicle 

 joints not very unequal, all much longer than wide but only mode- 

 rate in length, joints 2, 3 and 5 subequal and longest, 1 shortest but 

 longer than the pedicel and barely shorter than 4. Fore wings 

 slightly stained throughout, the longest marginal cilia somewhat 

 less than a third of their greatest width, the discal cilia arranged 

 in about twenty-seven lines. Funicle widening jrom foint 5. Petiole 

 more or less equal to hind coxa in length. 



Male: Not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping grass and 

 foliage in a jungle, May 20, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Australia — Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a slide in xylol baisam. 



From this species we must conclude either that Ooctonus 

 Haliday is a valid genus and with nothing in common with Gona- 

 tocerus Nees or eise that the species is a member of Cosmocomoidea 

 Howard and that the latter differs from Ooctonus in having the 

 long marginal vein. Foerster distinctly states that Ooctonus has a 

 Polynema facies while Cosmocomoidea as its name indicates, is also 

 like Polynema. But no mention is made of a long marginal vein 

 in Ooctonus so that at present we cannot state that Ooctonus and 

 Cosmocomoidea are the same. Perhaps, for this reason it would 

 have been better to place the above species in the last named genus. 

 But, then, I desired to call attention to these matters and more 

 especially to Ooctonus. 



The species is respectfully dedicated to the Abbe Saint- 

 Pierre. 



