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reddish-brown. Wings yellowish hyaline, iridescent; venation the 

 color of the body. 



Type locality: New South Wales, No. 217. 

 Type: In the British Museum of Natural History 

 This species and P. froggatti are related to P. bclinda Kirby 

 the three being similarly colored and having six-jointed an- 

 tennae with the club longer than the preceding joints. They 

 may be separated as follows : 



Scutellum closely, densely punctured, opaque .... froggatti Roh. 



Scutellum with scattered punctures, shining I 



i. Occiput and vertex shining, with a few scattered punctures; 

 middle lobe of the mesonotum well separated from the 



lateral ones lucida Roh. 



Occiput and vertex with close punctures, opaque ; anterior lobe of 

 mesonotum poorly defined belinda Kby. 



Genus PTERYGOPHORUS King. 

 Pterygophorinus Ashmead. 



Lophyrotoma Ashmead. 

 Pterygophorus civetus Klug. 



Pterygophorus insignis Kirby. 



Pterygophorus uniformis Kirby. 



Pterygophorus ana! is Konow [1907, Zeit. Hym. Dipt., p. 218]. 



Pterygophorus analis A. Costa. 



Pterygophorus rjuadialis Konow [1907, Zeit. Hym. Dipt., pp. 218, 

 219]. 



Pterygophorus distinctus, new species. 



Easily recognized by the truncate clypeus, opaque appear- 

 ance and pale spot on the pleurae. 



Female. Length, 12 mm.; expanse, 25 mm. Clypeus very rough, 

 the apex truncate; head, except a small area in front of the anterior 

 outline, very opaque with close punctures; antennal furrows com 

 plcte; postocellar area well denned; antennae, 23-jointed (the apical 

 joint wanting), the joints beneath with the normal triangular-shaped 

 rami ; dorsulum and scutellum opaque like the head, pleune more shin- 

 ing; abdomen opaque above; venation normal. Black; antennal joints 

 3-9, a spot on the pronotum, a large spot on the scutellum, metano- 

 tum, abdominal segments one and two, part of the sixth and the api- 



