the A.'&\\\i^dd of Australasia. 157 



Length, $ , 4 lines. 



Beard white. Face with snowy white tomentum ; mous- 

 tache black, covering half the face. Antennae : the first 

 two joints black, the third wanting. Thorax and abdomen 

 with blue, violet, and green reflections ; hairs on sides 

 white. Legs violet, with white hairs and black spots ; poste- 

 rior femora incrassate ; posterior tibise swollen and curved. 

 Wings : the anterior half hyaline, the posterior half 

 brownish ; neuration normal. 



From Tasmania. Paris Museum. 



In the figure of iving the small transverse vein is below 

 the middle of discal cell, the first posterior cell narrower at 

 border, the fourth and anal cells closed. 



Wulp described a female specimen from Sumatra which 

 he thought might belong to this species, measuring 6*5 lines. 

 He placed it under Maira, on account of the incrassate 

 posterior femora and metallic colour of the legs. The wings 

 were black-brown at the apex, extending into the basal cells, 

 and the white hairs at sides of abdomen were not apparent. 



Laphria flavifemorata, Macquart. 



Type ( ? ) seen in Paris Museum, 12. 4. 11. 



A small species, measuring only 9 mm., blue-black in 

 colouiing, with yellow femora. 



Face fairly broad, with a large prominent tubercle. 

 Moustache composed of black bristles. Beard white. 

 Thorax with some whitish tomentum at the sides and long 

 soft black hairs at sides, with shorter ones on the dorsum. 

 Scutellum identical. Abdomen bare, shining, no white spots 

 visible, with short black hairs at sides. Femora below with 

 white hairs, hind pair a little incrassate ; tibise with long 

 black hairs. Wings hardly brown, as Macquart descrilies, 

 clear, with black veins, the first posterior cell narrowed at 

 border, the fourth and anal closed; the small transverse 

 vein very near the base of discal cell, just above the base 

 of the fourth posterior cell. 



This is a very much smaller species than Laphria tekcles, 

 Wlk., with which I compared it. 



Laphria calopogon, Bigot. 



A male from Australia. 



Described as black, with long grey pubescence below 

 abdomen and femora and on both sides of tibise. The 

 borders of the second, third, and fourth segments of abdomen 

 fawn-coloured or testaceous. Femora at base and fore tibise 

 at base with red spots. Wings blackish. 



