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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
1. COSMOCOMOIDEA RENANI Girault. Male and female. 
Differs from the type of the genus, the North American morrilli Howard, 
in being black, the flagellum uniformly black, the wings more conspicuously and 
differently fumated, larger size, in having joints 4 and 5 of the funicle longest 
and in lacking a distinct abdominal petiole, the abdomen merely tapering at base. 
The male has .13- jointed antenna; and resembles the female in coloration. A large 
mesoprasscutum is not present. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. Forest. 
Type : No. Hy 1563, Queensland Museum. 
Differs in the female from Cosmocomoidea Howard in bearing a subsessile 
abdomen and in the male by bearing 13- jointed antenna?. The longer marginal 
vein differentiates it from Gonatoceriis Nees and the sessile abdomen from 
Ooctonus Hal i day and also probably the long marginal vein. The scutum has a 
median groove. 
2. COSMOCOMOIDEA GROTIU8I (new species).* 
Female: — Length, 2*00 mm. 
Similar to renani but the ovipositor is slightly exserted and the fore 
wings differ in pattern ; thus the first band under the marginal vein is distinct, 
the second band is also more distinct, black and midway between apex of vena- 
tion and apex of blade ; the third is absent, thus the distal part of the blade is 
clear; the wings are also smaller and less densely ciliate. The scape has a broad 
yellow band across it, the first three funicle joints are silvery white on one distal 
corner, the three shortest and not much unequal. 
Male: — Not known. 
Dedicated to Hugo Grotius. 
Described from one female captured July 4, 1913, by sweeping in forest 
<A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1564, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
This species doubtfully belongs here but unfortunately I neglected to 
examine the thorax before mounting it in balsam. Gonatoceriis saintpierrei , 
spinozai, bicolor and mirissimus also doubtfully belong here, especially the first 
and last. A mesopra?seutum was thought to be present. All are Gonatoceriis. 
* This and following specimens magnified with f-inch objective, 1-inch optic, Bausch and Lomb. 
