MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
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apart, the lateral ones almost touching the eye-margins; eyes large; mandibles, 
tridentate. Abdomen petiolate; broadly oval; as long as the head and thorax 
united ; wider than the thorax ; only one-half longer than wide ; first segment 
wider than long, with a short, blunt horn; second and third subequal, the 
longest; remaining segments short. Antennae 10- jointed; scape equal to next five 
joints combined ; pedicel two and a-half times as long as wide ; funicle joints all 
narrower than the pedicel; first one-half longer than wide; 2-4 very short, 
transverse ; club large, as long as the scape, compact, 4- jointed! Forewings very 
long, extending well beyond apex of abdomen ; broad ; slightly infuscated, but 
there is a very dark spot at the marginal vein, and a moderately dark line at the 
apex of the stiginal vein; marginal cilia short ; diseal cilia fine, excessively 
dense; submarginal vein attaining the costa about the middle of the wing; 
marginal vein short; stiginal vein moderately long and oblique; postmarginal 
almost as Jong as the stiginal ; basal vein not indicated. Hind wings enormous; 
almost as long and as broad as the forewings ; hyaline. 
Habitat: South Queensland (Brisbane). Described from one female 
labelled “among undergrowth, 26-iv-13, II. Hacker.” The species is named in 
honour of the collector. 
Type: Hy 1630, Queensland Museum, a female on a slide with the type of 
longiceps Dodd. 
2. CERATOBiEOIDES LONGICEPS sp. nov. 
Female: — Length, 1.50 mm. 
Reddish brown; head black; abdomen, except first segment, black. Like 
hackcri Dodd but the head viewed from in front is longer dorso-ventrad : the 
spot in the forewing is much lighter ; the stiginal vein is shorter ; the discal cilia 
is dense, but not exceedingly dense ; the hindwings are broad but are only one-half 
as broad as the forewings. 
Habitat: South Queensland (Brisbane). Described from one female 
labelled as in the preceding species. 
Type: Hy 1631, Queensland Museum, a female on a slide, with the type 
of Jiackeri Dodd. 
Family PLATYGASTERID.E. 
Genus PLATYGASTOIDES Dodd. 
PLATYGASTOIDES MIRABILIS Dodd. 
These is a female specimen of this remarkable species in the collection, 
labelled “ Clayfield, Brisbane, on flowers of Bgeckea, 22-iv-13, H. Hacker.” The 
species had formerly been recorded from several localities in North Queensland. 
