loS Miss Gr. Ricardo — A Revision of 



Macqu art's types both seen by me in Paris Museum, 

 12. 4. 11. S. 'elungatus, (^ ?, from New South Wales, 

 D. flavifacies, a female (not a male) from Tasmania. 



in Brit. Mus. Coll. :— 



Type of D. digentia, a male from New South Wales. 

 Haslar Hospital. 



Type of D. lanatus, a male from Van Diemen's Land 

 (/. Brynce). 



Type of D. thalpius, a male from Perth, W. Australia 

 (G. Clifton). 



Type of />. agave, a male from Swan River, W. Australia. 



Also a series of males and females from S. Australia, Tas- 

 mania, Queensland, and W. Australia. 



Macquart's description is as follows: — 



Elongated, black. Abdomen narrow, the apex testaceous. 

 INIoustache goldeu. Antennse black. Legs testaceous. 



Length 9 lines. J' ? . 



Palpi black, with black hairs. Face black ; moustache 

 and beard golden yellow, the first reaching the antennse. 

 Forehead black, with black hairs. Antennae black ; the first 

 joint a little elongated, with black hairs below. Thorax 

 black, with black hairs ; sides with greyish-yellow tomeutum 

 and whitish hairs. Abdomen narrow, 6 lines long, black, 

 with whitish tomentum and long whitish hairs below; genital 

 organs a little swollen, testaceous; the anterior half of the 

 last two segments testaceous. Legs with black bristles and 

 whitish hairs ; anterior femora black, testaceous at the apex, 

 posterior ones black, the posterior half below testaceous ; 

 tibise black at apex ; anterior tibise with no spines ; tarsi 

 l)lack. Wings clear, a little yellowish ; apex slightly 

 brownish. 



From New South Wales. Coll. M. Fairmaire and M. Bigot. 

 One specimen in the coll. of Marquis Spinola comes from 

 Sydney Island, Oceania. 



, Macqixart further remarks, in the second Supplement, that 

 the species which appears common in Tasmania aflbrds him 

 several subforms. One female differs from the type by the 

 entire black abdomen, ovipositor, and femora ; another has 

 the femora entirely testaceous ; in the males the abdomen is 

 black and the genital organs blackish testaceous. 



These remarks are fully borne out by an examination of 

 Walker's type and others in the Brit. Mus. Coll. D. digentia 

 has the abdomen entirely black. In some specimens the 

 testaceous colouring, if present, is confined to the last seg- 

 ment. The bristles on the legs are often fulvous instead of 



