'^6 KECORDS OP THE AUSTWAT.IAN MUSEUM. 



Australian Museum, and was recorded by Mr. F. H. Taylor (Loc. ci't., 

 1918) under the name P. jiigi-ipennis ; but his Ebor specimen mentioned 

 fii'st in the same reference is correctly named. Other specimens identified 

 by Mr. Taylor from Stradbroke Island, in the Queensland Museum, under 

 the name P. marnlipeyin'tt (1917), which he changed later to P. niyripennis 

 (1919), were probably correctly named in the first place. On this account 

 these references are placed in the synonymy above. 



Status. — The diffei'ence between P. 2^ersoiint its and T. nicjripennis, if 

 indeed they are distinct, is small ; fresh specimens show that the 

 abdomen has bands equally dark in both species instead of being reddish 

 brown and blackish brown respectively. There is an extra distinction, 

 however, in the pubescence under the head and the thorax which is pale 

 yellow in P. persoiuitns and white with tufts of red in P. nigripemiiti. 

 The thorax has far less red pubescence dorsally in the former than in the 

 latter. 



Variations. — In the Macleay Museum three males and five females 

 from Ropes Creek, Burradoo and the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, 

 are referable here. They all, however, show a mai'ked tendency towards 

 P. ni[fripevvis in the wing markings, but all agree with P. persnuatus in 

 the comparative scantiness of the red pubescence, and the pale yellow 

 hair ventrally. The spots on the wings vary from seven to ten in number. 



Loc. — The specimen upon which this identification is based is in the 

 Australian Museum ; it was taken by the writer at La Perouse, Botany 

 Bay, New South Wales, on the 6th October, 1918, and is a male ; a second 

 specimen, a female, from the same locality, having the spots of the wing 

 approaching those of P. nigripennis, was taken on the 12th October, 1919. 

 A further specimen, a female, was taken at Blackheath, New South 

 Wales, on the 18th November, 1919. 



So far as is known it appears that this foi-m occurs in warmer 

 climates, whilst the next species is from mountain and colder areas, 

 including Tasmania. 



PeLECORHYNCHDS NK!KII'K\N1S, 7i icanhi. 



Pelecorhi/iirJiiis macidipciniis, Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), v., 1900, 

 p. 102 — (not P. vtaculipeiDiis, Macquart). 



Pelecorhynchns nigripennis, Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), v., 1910, 

 p. 405. Id., White, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1915 (1916), p. 22. Id., 

 Hardy, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1915 (1916), p. 60; Loc. cit., 1917 (1918), 

 p. (j:^\h\ key). LI, Taylor, Flee. Austr. Mus., xii., 5, 1918, p. 55. 



Statt(s. — For observations upon the status of this species see the 

 remarks under P. 2ier,'<oinifiis. 



Pki.ecoriiynciius mii;ai:ims, I'liiilor. 



PehcorhyiicJiiix iiilmliilis, TmvIoi', Pi-oc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, xlii., 1917, 

 p. 518. 



