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I Clai'iola aw^ifacies, ? , sp. n.7 



Type ? and another from Towns villa, Queensland 

 {F. P. Dodd), 29. iii. 1902 ; and a male aud female from 

 Mackay, Queensland (G. Turner). 



A species distinojuislied from Clariola albohirta and Clariola 

 pulchra by the golden-haired /ace and hind part of head, and 

 by the blackish wings. 



Length 19 mm. The specimens from Mackay oaly 15 

 and 16 mm. 



It differs from Clariola albohirta in the following parti- 

 culars : — Face black, covered vrith bright golden tomentum 

 and with the moustache reddish golden, thick, occupying 

 the whole of the middle of face to base of antennae. Beard 

 same colour. Pa//^ismall, black, with black hairs. Antenna 

 similar to those of C. albohirta, but the spine on the pro- 

 jection of the third joint is here visible and there are two 

 bristles on the first joint. Forehead same colour as face. Hind 

 part of head similar in colouring of pubescence to that of 

 the face. Thorax shining, blue-black with very short 

 yellowish-white pubescence, hardly visible to the naked eye, 

 some black hairs on the posterior border, black bristles 

 at the sides ; sides and breast the same. Scutellum the 

 same, bordered with black bristly hairs. Abdomen punc- 

 tuated blackish with greenish reflections at the apex, the 

 white pubescence is only visible on the last four segments, 

 chiefly at the sides ; pubescence on the dorsum black and 

 short except at the apex, where it is whitish ; sides with 

 black pubescence ; underside brownish. Legs with no white 

 hairs on the coxse, no white pubescence is visible on the 

 femora nor white bristles on these or on the tibise ; the 

 tarsi have dense white pubescence like the tibise, only the 

 posterior pair with chiefly black pubescence and no yellow 

 bristles. Wings blackish, a little lighter on the posterior 

 border and apex, viewed against the light they appear 

 brownish with clear spaces ; the other female has lighter 

 wings than the type ; veins black ; neuration as in C. albo- 

 hirta, with the exception of the cross-veins not being exactly 

 in a line, the one which closes the third posterior cell being 

 a little above the other ; the female has a short appendix. 



The species from other parts of the A ustralasian region will 

 include, besides Clariola pulchra, two of Walker's species 

 placed under Laphria, viz. Laphria complens, type, from 

 Celebes, and Laphria obliquistriga, also from Celebes. 



[To be continued.] 



