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Female: Similar to male in colour, but the median band 

 of the mesonotum more marked, and with two lateral very 

 faintly marked dark bands; otherwise agreeing completely 

 with the type as to colouration and wing venation. 



Type and allotype, which were the only specimens cap- 

 tured, come from Sassafras, Victoria, 19th October, .1922. 

 They are in the collection of the Cawthron Institute. 



DIXA GEXICULATA, n.sp. 



Fig. 2. Hypoi)ynium of D. (Knimlalcu from above .tikI from the side. 



Similar to the ])recediiig species but largeV; and v.'ith 

 darker marks on body but with lighter legs. 



Male: Face and snout orange-yellow as well as ili.' .scape 

 of antenna^; the fiagellum black; palpi also black, vertex 

 brown shining; mesonotum orange with three disconnected 

 brown bands, the median one much abbreviated behind, the 

 lateral ones in front; scutellum orange,- post-scutellum 

 infuscated ; halteres with orange stem and black knob. 

 Prothorax brown, somewhat dark marks on the pleura? from 

 the front coxai to the base of the abdomen and on the lower 

 part of the meso.sternum. Abdomen blackish brown, rather 

 dull; coxae, femora, and tibia? yellow, the femora with black 

 tip, the tibiie with slightly darker base and black tip, tarsi 

 brown, the metatarsi somewhat lighter towards their base 

 on the anterior legs, the hind metatarsi distinctly lighter 

 with dark base and extremity. Wing hyaline or scarcely 

 greyish, with Sc and Rl as well as the costal field yellowish, 

 one dark subcirculai- spot round /->/( extending downwards 

 on tn-rn. 



