BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 747 



DiATOMINEURA CROCEA, sp.ll. 



Length, ^, 8-9; 9, 8-8-5 : width of head, ^, 3-3-5; 9, 3: leno-th 

 of wmg, (J, 7-8; 9,8: width of front at vertex, 0-5; length of 

 proboscis, 2-5 mm. 



(J. Head orange-butt', beard similar; first two segments of 

 antennae dull golden; the first swollen, about twice the length of 

 second, and clothed with fairly long, orange-buff" hairs; second 

 about two-thirds the width of the first, and clothed with fairly 

 long, black haii's; third orange, annuli black; palpi pale orange, 

 slendei', tapering to a point, clothed with fairly long, orange hairs, 

 with a few black ones at the apex, about one-third the length of 

 the proboscis, tlie latter black; eyes black, pubescence black. 



Thorax densely clothed with fairly long, orange-buff" and black 

 hairs; scutellum and pleuroe densely covered with orange-buff" 

 hairs. 



Abdomen darker than thorax, clothed with short, orange-buff" 

 and black hairs, with a median, fairly br(.)ad, orange-coloured 

 stripe extending the full length of the abdomen, apex blackish, 

 with a few black hairs; venter bright orange-butt". 



Winys with the inner two-thirds almost hyaline, rest smoky: 

 veins brown, costa black; stigma dark brown, elongate, conspi- 

 cuous, squamae clear. Halteres with pale stems and dark knobs. 



Legs : fore- and mid-femora, and tibia? orange-buff"; first tarsals 

 brownish, with black aj^ices; rest black, with narrow, pale, basal 

 rings; hind tibia? and basal half of the first tarsals brown, femora 

 clothed with orange-coloured hairs, apical half of the first tarsals 

 and tarsi two to five black; spurs on mid- and hind-tibiae black, 

 prominent. 



9. Similar to ^, but not so brightly coloured. Front orange- 

 buff, with numerous, erect, black hairs; no frontal callus; ocellar 

 triangle darker than front, ocelli prominent; abdomen chocolate- 

 brown, clothed with black hairs, with a dull, median, orange-buff" 

 stripe the full length of the abdomen; venter paler than in the J". 



Nab. — Queensland : Kuranda (F. P. Dodd), Cairns (F. H. 

 Taylor). 



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