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yellowish, anterior femora and the intermediate and posterior 

 femora and tibiae mostly dar*k, 'black or pitchy, hind tarsi dark 

 above. Wings hyaline, stigma dark fuscous. 



Head rugose from the coarse shallow puncturation, as also is 

 the pronotum; mesonotum smooth and shining, with a few fine 

 punctures; propodeum finely irregularly rugose, its posterior 

 median are a well defined, smoother, and in certain aspects 

 slightly shining. Length 3 mm. 



Distinguished at once from P. cJielogyiwidcs by the dark stigma 

 and the colour of the legs. 



Hab: Mittagong, N. S. W.; collected on Melaleuca, January 

 18th, 1905, by Koe'bele. 



PIPUNCULIDAE. 



Pipunculus ciitricJiodcs. sp. nov. 



Head black, with the front and face covered with glistening 

 white tomentum, posteriorly with greyish w'hite at the sides, 

 and fuscous in the middle. Tn the female the head l^etween the 

 eyes in front of the ocelli is shining lilack. Antennae black, 

 third joint yellow (sometimes somewhat clouded) and distinctly 

 acuminately j^roduced at the apex. Thorax pilose, and clothed 

 with fuscous tomentum, at the sides in front and on the pleura 

 whitish; scutellum with long, fine, erect 'hairs; metanotum with 

 dense whitish tomentum. HaUeres vellow, dark at base. Legs 

 1)lack or piceous, tip of femora, tibiae, and tarsi yellow; the 

 tibiae more or less infuscate or blackish, as also the apical tarsal 

 joint. Abdomen black, shining, clothed with outstanding con- 

 spicuous longish ])u'bescence. the first segment with a whitish 

 tomentose band; the second in the female generallv noticeaWy 

 Avhitish, as also all the other segments at tbc sides in both sexes; 

 the basal segment is without any row of black bristles at the 

 sides; hypopygium less clothed than the other segments in the 

 male (but similarly in the female) and more or less impressed at 

 t'he base, with a smooth lateral lobe on the right side. Oviposi- 

 tor straight and rather short. Wings distinctlv smo!ky, stigma 

 obscure brown, about as long as the fourth costal segment; 

 neuration black or dark brc^wn. more or less pale at the base. 

 Length ^-;^^ mm. 



Hab: Cairns district, Queensland. Not common. 



