orrTERA. Ill 



and ferruginous bristles on eauli side of the scutcheon : abdomen bright 

 deep blue, tapering from the base to the tip, near twice the lengtli of the 

 chest, clothed with short black hairs, and having towards the tip and be- 

 neath a few pale yellow hairs ; first and second segments thickly clothed 

 above with pale yellow hairs : legs black, slout, thickly clothed with short 

 black hairs ; tips of the feet clothed with tawny hairs ; foot-cushions tawny ; 

 claws ferruginous at the base ; first and second joints of hind-feet and tips 

 of hind-slianks clothed with pale yellow hairs ; hairs most thick on the 

 hind-shanks and hind-feet ; four front-shanks slightly curved: tips of mid- 

 dle shanks hooked ; wings gray, pitchy at the base, where a pitchy streak 

 proceeds for some distance beneath the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins 

 black, the latter bordered with yellowish-brown ; poisers black. Length of 

 the body 20 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 



West Australia. 



Genus MALLOPHORA, Maa/uart. 



Mallopiiora x-y loco pi ides. 



Aim, antennis pcdibusqun nit/ris, pedibus nitjro-hirlis, tibiis tarsisque 

 posticis ferrwjineo-ciliatis, iarsis jiosticis apice albo-fasciculalis, ads 

 nigro-cyaneis. 



Bodi/ deep black, thickly clothed with short black hairs : crown of the 

 head adorned with a ferruginous covering ; fore part of the face thickly 

 beset with black and ferruginous bristles: mouth mostly pitchy; palpi 

 very thickly beset with black bristles, which have ferruginous tips : legs 

 thickly clothed with black hairs ; hind-shanks and hind-feet very deeply 

 fringed, their hairs on the outer side mostly ferruginous ; a small tuft of 

 white hairs at the tip of each hind-foot : wings blackish, adorned with 

 blue reflections, paler on the disks of the areolets and towards the tips, 

 where the reflections are purple ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers black. 

 Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



Para. 



