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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping grass and foliage in a forest (300 feet), 
January 23, 1913. 
Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. 
Type : No. Hy 1663, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
3. CLOSTEROCERXJS ZANGWILLI new species. 
Female : — The usual length. 
Metallic green, the abdomen metallic blue; legs and antennas concolorous or black 
excepting tarsi and posterior tibia* which are yellowish white. Characterized by the usual 
bifasciate fore wings which form an H, the fascia being joined along the midlongitudinal line; 
the band around the margin is nearly complete, the first stripe accented under the stigmal vein 
conspicuously, the stripe broad and nearly straight; no blotch in middle of the wing under 
venation. Antennas compressed fusiform and usual, 8- jointed, the minute ring- joint being 
present. Propodeum without a median carina. The wing pattern is more sooty than usual. 
Mandibles tridentate. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping grass along a damp stream, July 7, 
1913 (A. P. Dodd). Dedicated to Israel Zangwill for his tragedy The War God. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1664, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide (with the type 
of C. minis Girault). 
In C. mirus, the minute ring- joint is also present and so with all of the species but as 
it fits into a cavity at the base of the first funicle joint it usually is not visible. 
DIAGNOSIS OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF CLOSTEROCERU S WESTWOOD. 
I. Fore wings with two isolated fascia! and a blotch. 
First band of fore wing >-shaped, a central blotch projecting distad into the space 
between the two arms of the band. 
Brilliant metallic blue-green; legs concolorous except the dusky pale tibim and tarsi. 
saintpierrei Girault. 
First band of fore wing bow-shaped or only slightly convexed, the blotch proximad of it 
isolated. 
Brilliant metallic blue-green, the tibhe and tarsi yellow. mirus Girault. 
II. Fore wings with two fascia* which are joined along the middle of the blade, forming an 
II; no blotch. 
Metallic green, the abdomen blue; tarsi and hind tibiae yellowish white; proximal fascia 
of fore wing accented under the stigmal vein, broad, nearly straight. 
zangwilli Girault 
