454 AUSTRALIAN STRATIOMYIDiE, 



Hermetia pallidipes, n.sp. (Figs. 3a, 36). 



£. Total length, 13; wings, 11 "5. 



Clypeus, irons, vertex, humeral ealli, a small area at the pos- 

 terior angles of the prescutum, another at the posterior angles of 

 the scutum, the apex of the scutellum, the pronotum, and the epis- 

 ternum pale horn colour; the knob of the halteres and two large 

 spots on the anterior margin of the second abdominal segment 

 pale greenish fading to yellowish after death; thorax black; 

 abdomen black with silvery reflections on second, third, and fourth 

 segments; mouth parts creamy buff; antenna? rusty red. 



Head wide (<£, 4-5, $, 3*80), wider than long (g, 2*75, 9, 

 2-50); eyes densely pubescent, widely separated; clypeus wide 

 (<£, 2"05, £, 1*75), projecting welljin front of head, clothed with 

 moderately long white hairs ; genge clothed with long white hairs ; 

 Irons wide, projecting, the sides converging slightly towards the 

 vertex, an oval, dark area, as long as the irons is wide, occupying 

 the middle of the irons; ocellar tubercle small (-40 wide), black, 

 with a few dark hairs, a small area above it dark; vertex wide 

 (£, 2*0, 9, 1*25) with numerous long white hairs. Antennae 5 

 mm. in length, first joint ('55) nearly four times as long as second, 

 proximal half black, the remainder rusty red like the second, both 

 joints widest at apex and clothed with short, stout, black hairs; 

 third joint clothed with golden pubescence, long (2"0), tapering 

 gradually to the apex, with six indistinct segments, the first three 

 rusty, the others shading into dark brown; style as long as third 

 joint, dark brownish black, convex and densely clothed with short 

 stiff black hairs on one side, concave and bare on the other. 

 (Fig. 3a). 



Thorax finely punctate; prothorax small, narrow (l - 35), 

 inconspicuous, glabrous; prescutum (2-85) much narrower than 

 head, clothed with white hairs (longest on sides), and a few black 

 hairs; scutum (35) wider than prescutum; scutellum not spined 

 (generic character), rounded at the apex, clothed with short hairs 

 above and longer hairs on the sides. 



Leys: femora black, fore- and mid-tibia? with proximal halt' 



