BY ARTHUR WHITE. 270 



1913. 



Locality. Bagdad Valley, Tasmania. 



Male. Face and front covered with pale yellow tomeutum ; 

 moustache pale yellow, scanty, without any black bristles. 

 Thorax yellow-brown, with a broad median and two lateral 

 brownish-black stripes ; sides bris^ht yellow brown ; bristles 

 white ; scutelliim covered with yellow-brown tomentum, with 

 two weak yellow bristles. Abdomen bro\^^lish-black with 

 conspicuous light yeilow-brown segmentations, and yellow 

 bristles at sides ; genitalia prominent. legs with the femora 

 broadly black above, red beneath ; anterior and middle tibise 

 red, with black bristles, posterior tibise yellow-brown, with 

 white bristles; apices of tibise and tarsi black. Wings tinged 

 with brown. 



Female resembles the male, but the legs are ligiiter, the 

 tibise being all pale yellow-brown, with apices black, and the 

 wings are hyaline. 



This sf)ecies can be easily distinguished from both JV- 

 onistipes, Macg. and N, hrujiiieus, Sp. nov. (the only nearly 

 allied species) by the bristles on the thorax being white 

 instead of black* atid by the thorax bearing one broad, 

 instead of two narrow, median stripes. 



N. graminis occurs on high open ground, where it may be 

 found during January and February, resting on the stems of 

 long grass. 



Neoila?}ius hnmnetis, Sp. nov. 



Thorax light brown, with two dark median stripes, and 

 black bristles; abdomen brown, with segmentations indis- 

 tinctly paler; legs light brown ; femora black above. 



Length. Male, 12 mm; female, 11 mm. 



Locality. Mangalore, Tasmania. 



Male. Face covered with yellowish-white tomentum ; 

 moustache pale yellow, with a few black hairs above. 

 Antennae with the first joint red, remainder black. Thorax 

 light brown, with two dark brown median stripes, and three 

 brown, suffused spots on either side ; bristles black ; scu- 

 tellum grey-brown, with two long, marginal, black bristles. 

 Abdomen brown, with segmentations paler ; first segment 

 with a row of black bristles on i)Osterior margin, second 

 with a long white bristle on each side ; dorsum of abdomen 

 with black, and sides with white, short stiff pubescence. 

 Legs light brown, with upper surface of femora black, and 

 apices of tibise and last four joints of tarsi darkened; pos- 

 terior femora with one long and about three short black 

 bristles; all tibise with white and black bristles. Wings 



