51 4 AUSTRALIAN TABAS^D^, iii., 



the $, while that of the ^ is dark chocolate-brown, with paired 

 spots. Legs black, tarsi pale, wings with prominent brown 

 markings. Eyes of ^ not contiguous. 



(J. ^e«o? clothed with grey pubescence, with two brown stripes, 

 groove beneath antennse deep brown, clothed with long, erect, 

 black hairs: front broad, brown, with a narrow grey streak on 

 either side and above the antennae, clothed with long, erect, black 

 hairs; ocellar triangle black, ocelli pale, prominent; antennae 

 subulated, first joint black, with long, black hairs; second joint 

 yellowish, about two-thirds the length of first, with scattered, 

 short, black hairs; third joint orange-rufous, with eight divisions; 

 palpi black, apex reddish, sparsely clothed with black hairs; 

 proboscis black, short; beard white; eyes black, 7iot contiguous. 



2'horax with a broad, median, dark chocolate-brown stripe 

 with a brown wedge-shaped stripe in it from the anterior margin 

 to the middle, outside the chocolate-brown stripe is a grey one, 

 then another dark chocolate-brown stripe toward the lateral 

 margin, the rest of the thorax olive-citrine, pubescence black, 

 erect; scutellum greyish laterally, the rest dark chocolate-brown, 

 pubescence black, erect, posterior margin with black hairs in the 

 middle, pale laterally; pleurae black, with pale pubescence, two 

 white hair-tufts at the wing-roots. 



Abdomen dark chocolate-brown; first segment with two, large, 

 submedian, olive-citrine spots; segments two to four with smaller, 

 submedian, apical, olive-citrine spots; lateral borders of first to 

 third segments with white hairs, the rest with black ones; geni- 

 talia shining black, reddish at the apex; venter black, with traces 

 of grey tomentum. 



Legs: coxae black, with pale pubescence; femora shining black, 

 with long, black pubescence; fore and mid with pale pubescence 

 also, knee-spots pale, fore- and mid-tibiae yellowish, with dense 

 black pubescence; first with golden pubescence beneath, hind 

 tibiae reddish-brown, with dense black pubescence; tarsi yellow, 

 pubescence golden; spurs on mid- and hind-tibiae yellowish, pro- 

 minent. 



Witigs with a sloping, brown band from the first longitudinal 

 vein to the base of the discal cell, the apex of the latter and 



