( 460 ) 



maize-vellow below, with a more or less distinct, clove-brown, transverse mark 

 between bases of e3e-stalks in S or eye-processes in ? ; palpi ocbraceons-bnfF, 

 clothed with dark brown or blackish hairs ; antennae, including arista and its 

 hairs, dark brown, extreme base of arista, first joint and bases of second and third 

 joints of antennae paler (bnff or ochraceoiis-biiff). 



Thorax. — Dorsum dull metallic greenish bronze (sometimes with traces of a 

 purplish tinge anteriorly), obscured by a coat of dull yellowish olivaceous pollen, 

 and marked by a series of black longitudinal stripes as shown on Plate XV., 

 figs. 5-9 ; pleurae and pectus buff or ochraeeous-buff, covered with greyish pollen, 

 pleurae obscurely mottled with dark brown ; dorsum clothed with very short and 

 fine appressed black hair, much closer on black stripes than elsewhere, postero- 

 lateral and posterior borders clothed with short ochre-yellow hair : viewed under 

 a platysropic lens the dorsum has a somewhat coarsely punctured aj)pearance ; 

 scntellum shining metallic dark bronze-green, with a velvety patch of exceedingly 

 minute, jiale yellow hairs on each side of base above. 



Abdomen. — Dorsum shining metallic bronze-green (occasionally bronze-brown), 

 basal angles of first segment more or less ochraceous-buff ; surface of dorsum 

 clothed with closely set, appressed, shining, ochre-yellow hair ; basal angles with 

 longer ochre-yellow hair, fourth segment and hind border of third segment in ? 

 clothed with dark brown hair ; apex of fourtii segment in S for most part also 

 usually clothed with dark brown hair. 



Wings hyaline, with a faint yellowish tinge, and with darker markings as 

 shown in figures 0-9 (PlateXV.) ; small transverse vein and base of third longitudinal 

 vein suffused with clove-brown, second longitudinal vein immediately above small 

 transverse vein and distal extremity of first longitudinal vein also suffused with 

 clove-brown ; second costal cell and marginal and submarginal cells on either side 

 of blotch above small transverse vein tinged with ochre-yellow ; apex of wing from 

 level of posterior transverse vein suffused with sepia-brown, which extends along 

 hind border, becoming fainter in third posterior cell, and in apex of wing itself 

 is usually darker on distal extremities of second, third, and fourth longitudinal 

 veins, and on posterior transverse vein. (In one specimen the brown colour on the 

 distal portion of the second longitudinal vein is so much intensified that this vein 

 has a continuous dark brown border from the blotch above the small transverse 

 vein to the costa, the border being broader from the level of the posterior transverse 

 vein onwards). 



Halteres. — Knobs dark brown, stalks cream-buff, or buff. 



Iiegs orange-buff ; femora marked as stated in diagnosis, front femora also 

 with an ochraceous patch on inner side at tij), below which they bear a double row 

 of stout black spines ; tarsi and tibiae clove-brown, tihiae marked in middle with 

 a conspicuous, interrupted, ochraceous band, as stated in diagnosis ; callosity on 

 inner side of tips of hind tibiae clove-brown ; tarsi clothed on under side with short, 

 closely set, shining orange ochraceous hair. 



New Guinea: Type of cJ, three additional c?cJ, and one ? from Stephansort, 

 German New Guinea ; a second ? and a fiftii S from Milne Bay, British New 

 Guinea, February, 1899 (A. S. Meek). 



Types, with three c? paratyj)es, in the Tring Museum. 



The Hon. AN'alter liothschild, in whose honour 1 have much jileasure in naming 

 this striking species, has kindly 2)resented paratypes of both sexes to the British 

 Museum (Natural History). 



