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Hab. — New South Wales and Tasmania. (October to January, April.) 

 Note. — In the collection under revision there are twenty specimens; two males 

 and eight females from Sydney, one female from Milson Island which is labelled 

 by White as his N. vulgatus; two males and four females, in the Maeleay Museum, 

 from New South Wales, and three females from Tasmania, one of which was laken 

 in April. 



Becker* described a species from British East Africa under the name N. 

 armatus. This appears to be a true Neoitamiis for which a new specific name 

 will be required if Macquart's species, described above, is allowed to remain within 

 this genus. 



Neoitasius claeipes White. (Text-fig. 11.) 



Bhahdotoitamus claripes. White, Proc. Roy. Soe. Tas., 1917 (1918), p. 98. 



Description. <S. The face has a small tubercle. The moustache is small, and 

 composed of about twenty bristles and hairs. There is a row of small, thin, yel- 

 lowish bristles behind the eyes. 



The dorsal thoracic bristles are disposed on each side of the median line as 

 follows: — one black a second yellow or black, presutural; one yellow, rarely 

 black, superalar and sometimes a second yellow or black bristle is present; from 

 two to five dorsocentral, of which the two posterior are always yellow, the others, 

 if present, are black. There are two yellow scutellar bristles; the metapleural 

 bristles are yellow, and the hypopleural bristles are suppressed. 



The abdominal bristles are mostly black on the first segment, and long, pro- 

 minent and yellow on the second to fifth segments. The upper forceps of the 

 male genitalia are rather long, and thin; they curve upwards apieally, and are 

 without a process. 



The legs have the anterior femora without spines; the intermediate feinora 

 with only three spines, one of which is placed about one-third and the second about 

 two-thirds the length of the anterior side; the third is placed subapicaUy on the 

 posterior side; the posterior femora have the spines on the anterior side reduced 

 to two or three representing the lower row, and one or two representing the 

 upper row; there is a complete ventral row. but the spines are often reduced in 

 size to bristles. 



The wings have a normaj venation ; the intermediate crossvein is situated a 

 little beyond the middle of the discal cell, the second posterior cell is long and 

 slightly constricted subapicaUy. 



5. The female is similar to the male, and the ovipositor is rather short. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Sydney and Blackheath. 



Note. — The collection under revision contains nine males and eleven females 

 from Blackheath, taken from the 14th to the 25th November, 1919, and one 

 female from Sydney taken on the 30th March, 1919; there are also two females 

 from New South Wales in the Maeleay Museum. They agree in every respect 

 with White's description. 



Nfoitamus maculatoides, n.sp. (Text-fig. 13.) 



Description. A black species with a superficial resemblance to N. maculata 

 White, but the female ovipositor is shorter and only slightly compressed. There 

 is no description amongst the Australian species of Neoitamus that can in any 

 way be associated with this species. 



'Bull. Mus. Paris, 1909, p. 144, and Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Ixxix., 1910, p.22. 



