AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CEALCIDOIDEA , 1I.—GIRAULT. 
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Described from one male specimen -captured by sweeping along a damp 
creek, grass, in forest, July 8, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Respectfully dedicated to 
Hugo Grotius. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. By 1570, Queensland Museum, a fore wing on a slide with the 
type of Gonatocerus bicolor. 
The single specimen of this species, unfortunately, was lost, only a wing 
being saved. 
15. GONATOCERUS POINCAREI new species. 
Female: — Length, 2-00 mm. 
Like mirissimus Girault but scape, pedicel and legs (excepting front cox^e), 
yellow, the abdomen wholly black, the distinct, wide midlongitudinal black stripe 
of distal fore wing shorter, that is not proceeding to apex but fading distinctly 
some distance before; also in the middle of the blade farther proximad there is 
a more or less distinct fuscous spot only narrowly connected with the black 
stripe (in mirissimus broadly connected and not forming a more or less distinct 
spot) ; also the funicle joints are distinctly longer, the distal joint longer than 
wide, joints 2 and 3 longest and distinctly over twice longer than wide (in 
mirissimus the distal joint is quadrate while joints 2 and 3 are distinctly not 
twice longer than wide). The yellow parts change to orange in balsam. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in jungle, July 13, 
1913. Respectfully dedicated to Jules Henri Poincare. 
Habitat: Harvey ? s Creek (Cairns District), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1571, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide 
with the type of Gonatocerus lomonosoffi Girault. 
18. GONATOCERUS MERCIES new species. 
Female: — Length, 0-80 mm. 
Golden yellow marked with jet black as follows: A flat, hemispherical 
marking at caudal margin of pronotum across middle, all of scutum except lateral 
and caudal margins, a large diamond-shaped area on the parapside (nearly 
joining the next), a smaller triangular area in the vicinity of the axillae (laterad 
of the cephalic scutellum), the propodeum, a line from one lateral ocellus to the 
other, three areas on the occiput, cephalic aspect of the head and distal half of 
abdomen above and hind tibiae. Legs pale yellow. A pattern of black spots on 
cephalic vertex. Distal two tarsal joints black. Antenna? missing. Fore wings 
hyaline, moderate in width, with about .17 lines of cilia. Marginal cilia about a 
fourth the greatest wing width. 
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