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tubercles near the base ; the silvery-grey pile arranged in irregular 

 longitudinal lines, the intervals exposing the piceous derm often 

 contluent, and forming ii-regular oblique lines ; near the apex, and 

 near the suture behind the middle, the pile is only ornamented with 

 minute spot-like interruptions. Underside thickly clothed with 

 silvery-grey pile, the second and thii'd abdominal segments 

 densely covered with ochreous pile. Legs rather robust, densely 

 pilose, the innerside of the anterior tibise piceous. Length 

 32 mm. 



Coonamble, New South Wales (J. H. Rose). 



A beautiful species, perhaps most nearly allied to Rhyliphora 

 cretata, Pasc, but quite unlike any known form in colour 

 and marking. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Skuse exhibited fine specimens of the following gigantic 

 Tipulidse — Semnotes imperatoria, Westw., and Semnotes ducalis, 

 Westw., both of which species are now known to occur in the 

 vicinity of Sydney, the former having been taken by Mr. G. 

 Masters, at Lane Cove, and the latter recently by Mr. H. Prince, 

 at Fairy Bower, near Manly : and a very distinct undescribed 

 species of Leptotarstts, Guerin, captured by Mr. Prince last 

 September, at Lawson, Blue Mountains, which for length of limb 

 is the largest of known Australian Diptera. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited a collection of beetles belonging to the 

 genus Paropsis, amounting to about 33 species. The specimens 

 were recently collected by Mr. Baeuerlen in the neighbourhood of 

 Mount Dromedary, N.S.W. 



