BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 521 



Thorax grey, with two, indistinct, median, brownish stripes 

 terminating in the middle, and lateral, brownish ones; pubescence 

 mixed, copper-coloured and black, laterally dense, grey: scutelluin 

 grey; pubescence similar to thorax; pleur?e grey, with scanty, 

 grey clothing. 



Abdomen, showing faintly reddish thi-ough the grev tomentum: 

 viewed laterally, it is distinctly humped, densely clothed with 

 black, appressed hairs, except on the posterior margins of seg- 

 ments two to the apex, where it is creamy, triangular spots 

 creamy; venter reddish, with grey tomentum. 



Legs: coxa?, femora, and tibite reddish-brown, tarsi darker, 

 pubescence pale, black on tarsi; spurs on hind-tibiie small. 



Wings clear, veins brown, stigjua yellowish, inconspicuous; 

 posterior cells widely open; no appendix. 



Hah.—q.'. Townsville (F. H. Taylor; Dec, 1914). 



A single specimen, attracted to light, one night in December, 

 1914. It has a striking, Tahaiius-VikQ appearance, especiallv 

 about the head; and is easily distinguished from its other Aus- 

 tralian congeners. 



Type in the Institute Collection. 



ECTENOPSIS sp 

 A specimen from Brisbane, Queensland (H. Hacker), may pos- 

 sibly belong here, but the antenna? are missing. 



Demoplatus australis Ricardo. 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xvi., p.270(1915). 

 Uah.—q.: Brisbane (H. Hacker; March, 1914). 



C^NOPROSOPON hamlyni, sp.n. 

 (Plate xxviii., fig.3). 

 Length, 12-5; width of head, 5; length of wing, 12 mm. 

 Thorax densely clothed with long, yellow, and short, black 

 pubescence; abdomen brownish, with paler segmentations; legs 

 yellowish, tarsi darker; wings faintly dusky, a long appendix 

 present. 



(J. Head: face protuberant, with yellow tomentum and long 

 golden hairs, cheeks similar; antennaj yellow, apex blackish, first 



