BY T. D. A. COCKEKELL. 175 



Males •• 



Females ii. 



1. Let^s, except coxae, red; small narrow species bougainvillei Gkll. 



Legs at least largely black 2. 



2. Abdomen black without markings; face with much creamy-white hair, 



but upper part of clypeus with black; wings dark fuliginous 



lachesis Smith. 



Abdomen otherwise, or face not so marked 3. 



3. Black, with black hair, abdomen pale rufo-testaceous beneath; wings 



subhj'aline ven/.ralis Smith. 



With at least some conspicuous light hair 4. 



4. All the tarsi reddish-testaceous; length 9^ mm quodi Vachal. 



At least some of the tarsi dark 5. 



5. Anterior coxse not toothed; wings nigro-violaceous; length 13 mm.; 



species resembling Af. lachesi^i, but abdomen with some rufous 



megitsia Cameron. 



Anterior coxae toothed (teeth rudimentary in M. nhortlandi), but wings 

 not nearly so dark as in M. megislia 6. 



6. Abdominal segments 5-7 entirely covered with fulvous or red hair. .,7. 

 Abdominal segments 5-7 not, or not entirely, so covered 8. 



7. Wings fuscous; thorax with black hair placida Smith, var. 



nigrohirta Friese. 



Like M. placida, but apparently larger; perhaps not distinct 



othona Cameron. 



8. Wings fuscous; two apical segments of abdomen with ferruginous hair, 



but abdomen not banded mortyana D.T. 



Wings 8ubh3'aline; abdomen banded 9. 



9. Hair of thorax above without black; anterior coxae with large spines... 



cartereti Ckll. 



Hair of thorax above with much black 10. 



10. Hair-bands of abdomen white shortlandi CkW. 



Hair-bands of abdomen red xvoodfordi CkW. 



11. Large, entirely black; wings nigro-fuscous lachesis Smith. 



Not entirely black 12. 



12. Ventral scopa silvery white {aust7-alasire) or reddish-white {axistralis)..\3. 



Ventral scopa fuscous or black 14. 



Ventral scopa red , or largely so 15. 



13. Thorax above with six white hair-spots attstralis Ia^c&s. 



Thorax not so marked; abdomen with pale yellow hair-bands 



auiitralasiiv D. T. 



14. Abdominal segments 2 to 4 orange-banded aurantiaca Friese. 



Abdomen witli two orange bands quodi Vachal. 



Abdomen without bands inendaiuv Ckll. 



