150 Miss G. Ricardo — A Revision of 



Wings brown on external border. Length 5 lines ,^ . 

 Palpi with black hairs. Beard black. Face with yellow 

 tomentum : a black denuded space under the antennae ; 

 moustache black. Forehead black. Antennse fawn-coloured, 

 the third joint brown at apex. Thorax dull with some grey 

 tomentum^ the shoulder spot fawn-coloured ; sides shining. 

 Abdomen : the first, second, and anterior border of third 

 segment black, the remainder bright fawn-coloured ; the 

 fourth with a large blackish transverse dorsal spot, the 

 seventh very small, black ; underside wholly shining black. 

 Femora fawn-coloured at apices ; anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae black, at base fawn-coloured ; posterior pair favvr.- 

 coloured. Anterior and intermediate tarsi black, posterior 

 pair fawn-coloured. Wings hyaline, with a wide brown fore 

 border; base of the second submarginal cell very narrow. 

 From east coast of New South Wales. 



Codula vespiformis, Thomson. 



One male from Burpengarv, Queensland, in Brit. Mns. 

 Coll. 



Thomson described his type, a male from Sydney, as 

 related to C. Hmbipennis, Macquart, but easily distinguished 

 by the colour of abdomen. 



Face golden yellow with a short black median stripe, 

 raised at oral opening, which is covered by the moustache 

 composed of yellow bristles. AntenncB reddish \ eWov; ; the 

 third joint long cylindrical, notched on upper border, no 

 style apparent. Forehead black, shining, with some grey 

 and black hairs. Thorax black, with golden yellow tonien- 

 tose spots on prothorax, shoulders, and two spots on lower 

 border the same colour ; one stout fulvous spine-like bristle 

 at side of thorax above base of wing. Scutellum black, with 

 horizontal golden-yellow tomentose stripes. Abdomen club- 

 shaped, black, reddish golden tomentose on posterior border 

 of second segment as a narrow band, a similar but wider 

 band on posterior border of third segment, a very narrow 

 one on posterior border of foiarth, and fifth and sixth wholly 

 reddish golden except at the sides ; underside wholly black ; 

 on sides of first segment appears a small black bristle, Le/js 

 reddish yellow ; femora with exception of apices black, apices 

 of fore tibiae and the tarsi fuscous. Wings hyaline, fore 

 border deep brown, reaching the discal cell and almost 

 filling up the basal cells, on apical half it does not extend 

 beyond the third vein ; all cells open, the fourth posterior 

 and anal cells narrowed at border. 



Length of specimen 15 mm. 



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