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the last three taken together, and the inixed dark and light scales so 

 disposed as to leave the last joint almost black ; the next nearly white, 

 and the two long joints dark at their distal and pale on their basal 

 portions. Thorax yellowish-brown, with white spots as follows : three 

 in front near the head, three in the middle, u-regular patches at the 

 sides, and one in front of the scutellum. Abdomen blackish, covered 

 with ochreous, yellow and white, parti-coloured scales, the white forming 

 more or less basal bands, and a spot on the middle of the segments. 

 Legs densely clothed with ochreous, parti-coloured and white scales, 

 banded with white. Lengih. — 7"5 mm. 



Habitat. — Bupengary, S. Queensland ; Hexham Swamp, near New- 

 castle and Richmond, N.S.W. ; Mt. Kembla, Illawarra, N.S.W. ; Natal. 

 December and January in Australia. 



2. MUCIDUS SCATAPHAGOIDES, sp. n. (First Edition, p. 182). 



Plate xii, fig. la. Complete figure of insect, seven times natural size ; 

 2a, Venation of wing at standard amphfication of 10 diams. 



Wings very broad ; not definitely spotted, but with alternating 

 patches of pale and parti-coloured scales on all the veins ; its 

 internal fringe pale yellow with eight black interruptions, which 

 are, however, narrower than the intervening pale portions, 

 especially towards the tip. Legs, including tarsi, elaborately 

 banded with alternate brown and yellowish-white rings. Thorax 

 covered with woolly white tomeatum, with ill-defined darker 

 patches on the sides at front. Abdomen brindled like the rest 

 of the body, rather paler along the middle line but unhanded. 

 Proboscis brindled so as to be darker at the tip. Stem of hinder 

 fork longer than its cell. 



?. — Head and eyes ochreous, the nape covered with long, forward - 

 directed, pale ochreous scales, almost white in the middle line, and 

 lemon-coloured round the eyes and on a frontal tuft, somewliat like 

 those of Anoplicletes ; antennae white on basal joint; brownish-yellow, 

 darker at the roots of the verticils elsewhere; palpi more than half the 

 length of the proboscis, ochre and white brindled, nearly pure white at 

 the tips. The venation of the wing is peculiar, " 2 " being absent, as 

 III. originates from II. external to the transverse veins, and hence " 3 " 

 connects II. and IV. instead of III. and IV. as usual. Ilalteres ochreous- 

 brown throughout. Length. — 8 to 10 mm. 



Habitat. — This species is probably widely distributed in India, as the 

 specimens mentioned in the First Edition were from Myingan, Burmali, 

 and during the past year I received a number of specimens fi'om Major 

 Close, I. M.S., who Avrites : — " They only appeared for about a week in 

 September, and occurred in the Police Hospital at Moradabad, N.W.P., 

 and bit the patients very viciously." Major Close confined a ? that had 



