BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 117 



9- — Length of antennte 0-120 inch ... 3-04 uullimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-880 x 0-200 ... 22-34x5-08 



Sizeofbody 0-850x0-110... 21-58x2-79 



Head grey, with a longitudinal brown stripe on the front; a 

 prominent fulvous tubercle anteriorly (above the antennse) ; face 

 and rostrum, and usually (though often obscurely) the second 

 joint of the scapus and tirst flagellar joint fulvous ; suctorial 

 labella, palpi and the remaining joints of antennae brown or 

 black ; fii'st joint of scapus about i longer, and thicker, than first 

 flagellar joint ; second to tenth flagellar joints (viewed from the 

 side) serrate beneath (most strongly in ^), each really produced 

 from the base (less strongly in the 5) into an almost disciform pro- 

 cess which is thickest at its attachment (in the ^ the second and 

 third joints only nodose beneath) ; each joint with a very short 

 pedicel anteriorly; terminal joint slender. Thorax with four slate- 

 coloured, black-bordered stripes, the intermediate pair contiguous ; 

 the lateral ones short ; the intervening spaces, humeri and lateral 

 borders yellowish ; from suture to metanotum whitish, with a 

 median black line, the lateral borders black ; and two contiguous 

 slate-colored, black-bordered spots on each side above the origin 

 of the wings ; pleurje more or less pruinose with white ; pectus 

 brown. Halteres testaceous, with brown or blackish club. Ab- 

 domen fulvous ; tirst segment brownish to black, more or less 

 hoary ; the following segments bordered posteriorly with black, 

 and laterally with white ; genitalia fulvous. Coxse hoary ; 

 trochanters brown or black. Remaining joints black (in fresh 

 specimens) or brown, fulvous towards base of femora. Wings 

 greyish with whitish streaks (mostly on the apical half), the costal, 

 marginal and submarginal cells more or less clouded with 

 brownish, with a whitish mark at each end of stigma ; veins 

 blackj the auxiliary vein and origin of wings testaceous or fulvous ; 

 the great cross-vein and fifth and seventh longitudinal veins 

 clouded with fuscous. 



ffab, — Sydney (Masters), two specimens ; near Armidale, 

 N.S.W. (Mr. J. F. Schotield) ; Moonbar and Jindabyne, KS.W., 



