266 NEW AUSTRALIAN ASIMD.K, 



K.H. TA3. 



Length. Male, 10*5 mm ; female, 13-5 mm. 



Locality, Bagdad Valley, Tasmania. 



Male. Face white ; front pale yellowiali ; moustache white, 

 scanty. Antennae black. Thorax olive, faintly striped, with 

 the sides pale grey. Abdomen olive ; first segment with a 

 few white bristles on either side. Legs with all femora 

 orange, the posterior pair whitish at base ; anterior and 

 middle tibiae orange below, brownish above ; posterior tibiae 

 brown, pale at the base, and becoming gradually darker 

 towards the apex, with a few white bristles ; tarsi black, with 

 the exception of the first joint, which is three-fourths white. 

 Wings clear, veins black ; the cross-vein closing the second 

 basal cell joins the peduncle of fourth posterior cell at about 

 two-thirds of its length. 



Female resembles the male, but is larger : the abdomen 

 has sides and segmentations grey, the grey colour encroach- 

 conspicuously on the second and third segments, in which 

 the olive colour is reduced to a dorsal stripe, narrow above 

 and broader below. 



This species can only be confused with L. geniculaia and 

 Z. vernalis, from both of which it may be distinguished by 

 its bright orange femora. 



This species may be found amongst long gniss on the 

 liills, in company with L. vernalis ; I have only met with it 

 during the month of January. 



Lepiogasier jumipenuis, Sp. nov. 



A large robust species. Thorax brown, with three broad 

 brown longitudinal stripes ; abdomen dorsaliy black, sides 

 and segmentations ^xa^ ; femora very dark brown ; winjjs 

 with veins very conspicuous, and suffused with brown round 

 the discal cross-vein 



Length Female, U'S-IT) mm. 



Locality. Bagdad Valley, Tasmania. 



Female. Face yellow or yellowish white ; moustache 

 white; back of head with a row of stiff black bristles. 

 Antennae black. Thorax brown, with three very broad, 

 shining, longitudinal, dark brown stripes ; sides grey ; 

 scutellum covered with grey tomentuni. Abdomen un- 

 usually robust, dorsaliy olive-bhick, with sides, shoulders of 

 segments, and segmentations (to a varying degree) grey ; 

 first segment i)osteriorly with (usuallv) four bla,ck bristles 

 on each side and a few white hairs. Legs dark brown, with 

 knees black ; posterior tibiae whitish at base, with black and 

 white bristles, which vary considerably in diii'erent individuals 



