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bristle, which is a little shorter than the third joint. Thorax adorned 

 with three bright yellowish-white stripes ; middle stripe very slight 

 and indistinct^ side stripes joined by tv/o oblique bands with the sides 

 of the chesty which like the breast are also bright yellowish-white; 

 sides and side stripes beset with long black hairs and bristles ; 

 scutellum and hind thorax jiale tawny. Abdomen thinly clothed with 

 short tawny hairs ; hind borders of the segments pale bright yellow, 

 clothed on each side towards the base with tawny bristles ; first and 

 second segments very short ; third and following segments long but 

 successively decreasing in length ; appendages at the tip very large, 

 black, shining, clothed with tawny and biack hairs, and with some 

 black bristles ; under-side tawny. Legs black, thick, clothed with 

 short ferruginous hairs, and beset with stout black spines ; shanks 

 red with black tips ; claws black ; foot-cushions dull tawny. "Wings 

 colourless, with very slight tawny streaks along the veins ; grey on 

 the tips and on the discs of the areolets along the hind borders ; 

 wing-ribs and veins black. Poisers yellow. 



Female. Abdomen full twice the length of the thorax ; segments 

 from the seventh to the ninth compressed, black, shining -, tips of 

 the wings paler than those of the male. 



Length, 6^—8? lines. 



New Zealand (Dr. Sinclair and Earl). 



A. BULBUS. Walker, I.e., p. 465 (1849). 



Body piceous. Head narrower than the thorax, covered with 

 tawny down, clothed behind and beneath with pale-yellow hairs, beset 

 behind the eyes with some black bristles ; sides of the crown thickly 

 covered with black hairs ; cpistome thickl}^ covered with long black 

 bristles ; eyes dark bronze, fore-part flat, its facets somewhat larger 

 than those of the other part ; lip black, clothed at the tip with short 

 tawny hairs ; palpi black, clothed with long pale-yellow hairs ; tongue • 

 ferruginous. Antennae black, first and second joints beset with black 

 hairs ; second joint full half the length of the first ; third joint rather 

 broad, obconical at the base, tapering thence to the tip, beset with a 

 very few short and slender hairs ; style stent, nearly as long as the 

 third joint. Thorax thinly clothed with short black hairs, beset on 

 each side and behind with a fev/ black In-istle.s, adorned with three dark- 

 tawny stripes, middle stripe very slender ; side stripes connected ])y 

 two oblique tav/ny bands with the sides of the chest, which are also 

 tawny; shoulders and breast ferruginous, the latter covered with a 

 grey bloom. Abdomen narrower than the thorax, rather more than 

 twice its length in the male, and about thrice its length in the female, 



