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whitish. AntenrKB brown, with black hairs on the first two 

 joints, the third with a long bristle at end. Forehead black, 

 covered with greyish tomentum, a row of black hairs next 

 the eyes, and iDeyond these white hairs reaching to antennae; 

 back of head armed with black bristles and whitish hairs. 

 Thorax covered with greyish tomentum, ground-colour 

 brownish, with two distinct brown ( $ ), black {S) median 

 stripes ; some very short, inconspicuous, black pubescence 

 on dorsum ; sides with black bristles and covered with grey 

 tomentum below and white pubescence ; thorax posteriorly 

 and scutellum on its posterior border with black bristles, the 

 latter black, with grey tomentum and some white hairs. 

 Abdomen in ^ stout, robust, appearing black on each seg- 

 ment, with the posterior borders and the sides grey, pubes- 

 cence on dorsum chiefly black, at sides with thicker whitish 

 pubescence ; venter black, but covered with grey tomentum 

 and with fine white hairs ; genital organs black, with black 

 hairs above and some white ones below ; in the $ the black 

 spots are smaller and more distinctly marked, the pubescence 

 even on the black spot chiefly yellowish but shorter; ovi- 

 positor black, shining, with white pubescence below. Legs 

 red, the coxoe, knees, and apices of tibiae, and all tarsi black ; 

 posterior tibiae more largely black, especially in the ? ; coxae 

 with long white pubescence ; femora with white short pubes- 

 cence, thickest on the posterior pair; bristles black, on the 

 middle and posterior pairs with some yellowish. ones on their 

 lower borders ; tibiae with white pubescence and black 

 bristles ; tarsi with black pubescence and bristles, anterior 

 pairs with some white pubescence. Whigs hyaline, veins 

 yellowish, small transverse vein below the middle of the 

 discal cell. 



This species differs from P. rujipes in having white-haired 

 palpi, the black spots on abdomen not triangular, and in the 

 femora and tibiae being the same colour, with some white 

 bristles, and the size of P. rufipes is only 20 mm. 



A male from Endeavour River, Queensland, and a female, 

 both in Mr. French's collection, differ from the above by 

 having the moustache and the palpi of black and white hairs, 

 and the femora have no white bristles ; for the present they 

 may be considered as only a variety of P, doddi. 



The following species have been described from New 

 Uio^ ^^Guinea and. other parts of the Australasian Region : — 

 - — "pr^^i _^Promachus bifasciatas, Macq.; P. addens, complens, con- 

 ^^^X^:^^ 'trudicens, gilolonus, t7'ansactus, Wlk. ; P. inornatus, Wulp ; 



