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MJ' MOTHS OF tel: QEIlENSLAED museum. 
8. GONATOCERUS ANGUSTIVENTRIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 
Fenxidc: — Length, 1.50 mm. 
Black; al>domcn a little sutfiised with l)rowii; knees and tarsi yellow; antennal scape 
suffused with yellow. 
AVith the halhtus of rexidiii Girault and f/roliiisi Girault. Heutiim with a median groove; 
scutum and sciitelliiin witli tine, polygonal scaly sculpture. Propodeiiin witli a groove on each 
side of tin' meson, tin* grooves rather widely sejairated, also with a earina near each lateral 
margin, in the dorsal aspect. Abdomen tapering at its base. Antcniuu 11 -Jointed, first funicle 
joint much shorter and narrower than the pedicel; second distinctly longer than first, as long as 
pedicel; third distinctly longer than second, three times as long as wide; 4-S very slightly and 
gradually shortening, tlio eighth as long as the pedicel; club almost as long as the three 
preceding joints united. Pore wings long, rather broad, but of the graceful type; somewhat 
infuHcated; longest marginal cilia ecpial to one eightli greatest wing Avidtli; discal cilia absent 
beneath the Tnarginal vein, not fine, dense, arranged in about 30 rows. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from (uje female captured by sweejiing in o[ien forest, 1.300 feet. September 
10. 1913 (A. P. Ihnld). 
JIahilai : Kuranda, (Queensland, 
Type: No. Jly 2i.^j;:i. (.Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 
9. GONATOCERUS SHAKESPEAREI new species. 
Female: — Length. 1.35 mnu. excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a distance equal 
to from a third to half the length of the abdomen. 
Long and slender, tin* abdomen longer than the rest of the body. Golden yellow, the 
’wings hyaline; fiageilum, dorsal edge of scajie, valves of ovi])osltor. a cuncule marking on each 
side of median line of <'e]tlialic half of scutum; a large triangular spot covering most of eacli 
]>arapside; center of scut(‘llinn at base (in one' .s|ieciinen down whole of meson Ijroadly) ; 
meson of pro] odeum broadly and distal one nr two tarsal Joints, dusky black. First four 
funicle joints sube(|nal, subgl(d)alar. that poition of the liinicle slenderer than tlie following; 
Joints .5-S of funicle subcqual. each wider and over twice the lengtli of aiiy of tlie Joints 1-4-, 7 
a little shorter than the <;theis. L’iscal < ilia of fore wing «l;sappearing some distance out from 
apex of venation, not det so excej t disto•ceJ^ha]ad yet Avell distrilnited o\'cr the bladt*, the fore 
^\■ings moderately bioad (about lb lines of cilia where brorulcst) , oblately roimded at ajjex; 
marginal cilia of fore wing indistinct, very short, absent aronn<l apex. T'andal wings rather 
broad (about five lines of disi-al cilia), the caudal marginal cilia about as long (or not quite) 
as the blade is Avide. Thorax longitudinally shagreened, no grooA’es, AbdoTueu tapering toAvard 
l)asc. Proxiinal taisal Joint long and slender (except in cephalic legs). 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from tAvo females captured by sAA-eo])ing in forest, Detober 10, 1913 (G. F. 
Bin). 
Tfahilat: Port Darwin, Nortiioru Territory and Cloncurry, (Queensland. 
Type.^: No. Ey .T-fSo. (Queensland Aluseum, Brisbane, the specimens on a slide (Port 
Dai'Avin) . 
A female of this S])ecios was captured at Cloncurry, April 13, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). The 
specimen, evidently a variant, liad somewhat different fore Avings and slightly longer funicle 
Joints but otherwise tlie same. The ce]thalic tibim are armed Avith scattered, distinct, short, 
tliorn-like spines. 
10. GONATOCERUS BOSWELLI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.05 mm. 
Golden yelloAv; two rather liroad dusky stripes across dorsum of abdomen, the first a 
little distad of middle. Cephalic half of scutum, scutellum except the lateral margins, pro- 
]>odeiim excepting a narroAv yelloAv line some distance laterad of meson, tegula?, postscutellum, 
