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on hind part of head black. Thorax and scutellum dull 

 black like the abdomen ; the white tomentose spots on the 

 latter appear on the first four segments at sides and have 

 yellowish pubescence. Legs with black sparse pubescence. 

 Wings with the neuration as in L. rufifemoi^ata, but the first 

 posterior cell is very considerably narrowed at opening. In 

 all other particulars it is the same as L. hirta. 

 Length 12 mm. 



Laphria hirta, c? , sp. n. 



A species with blue-black abdomen, but fulvous at sides 

 instead of having white spots ; legs very hairy, yellow, fore 

 femora almost wholly black, the others black at apices j tibise 

 black at apices, tarsi black. 



Length 15 mm. 



Type ( S ) from Australia, 59. 10. 3. 



Face covered with long, bright, fulvous hairs, the moustache 

 appearing as long, black, isolated bristles on tubercle. 

 Palpi with black hairs. Beard white. Antenna with black 

 hairs on first two joints. Forehead with black hairs, which 

 extend over hind part of head, becoming white below. 

 Thorax blue-black, with the usual white tomentose spots on 

 shoulders and traces of a whitish border posteriorly and 

 across suture. Scutellum blue-black, with black hairs. 

 Abdomen blue-black, the fulvous colour appearing on side of 

 each segment ; pubescence on sides of abdomen fulvous ; 

 genital organs shining black, prominent ; underside dull 

 fulvous. Legs hairy, the coxse black, with grey tomentum 

 and some fulvous pubescence ; the femora all swollen, and 

 with tibiae have long fulvous pubescence on the yellow parts, 

 paler on the fore femora, and long black pubescence on the 

 black parts, the tarsi with wholly black pubescence. Halteres 

 red-brown. Wings brownish ; neuration as in Laphria 

 rufifemorata. 



The species in the Laphria genus from New Guinea and 

 other parts of the Australian Region are very numerous. 



Of the Walker species, on an examination of the types the 

 following remarks are based : — 



L. ampla, from Amboyna, appears to be identical with L. vulcanus, Wied. 



L. argentifera and L. conveniens probably belong to the genus Maira. 

 L. declarata appears allied to the genus Atoinosia. 



L. aperta and L. tripars, from New Guinea and Waigiou, appear identical ; 

 they are very small in size ; Dr. Hermann places the latter in his 

 new genus Cenochromyia (see p. 117). L. pipunculoides, also a very 

 small species, has a striking character in the eyes, which take up 

 nearly the whole of the head and are joined in the middle ; Dr. Her- 

 mann places it in the genus Clariola (see p. 113). 



