BY ARTHUR WHITE. 27 



Phycus quatiens, Sp. nov. (Fig. 14). 



Antennae black, the first joint much longer than the 

 third; front and thorax black; abdomen black, with anal 

 segment yellow ; legs bright orange-yellow ; wings hya- 

 line, mottled with grey-brown. 



Length. Male, 7-9 mm. ; female, 10 mm. 



Hab. Bagdad Valley. 



Fig. 14. Head of Phycus quatiens. 



Male. Face and front black and shining ; back of head 

 black and shining with black bristles. Proboscis and palpi 

 black, with short stiff hairs. Antennae black, the first 

 joint orangerbrown at the extreme base; the first joint 

 about twice the length of the head, the second very short, 

 the third somewhat inflated, about half the length of 

 the first. Eyes bare, separated, fringed below and behind 

 with white hairs. Thorax black, somewhat shining, with 

 black pubescence; scutellum velvet black with two black 

 terminal bristles. Abdomen with the first segment grey, 

 second and third dull brownish-black, fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth shining jet black, genitalia orange-yellow. Legs with 

 the femora, tibiae, and first joint of tarsi bright orange- 

 vellow, remaining joints of tarsi brown or black ; there 

 is also a narrow black stripe on the under side of the hind 

 femora-. Wings with both the fourth posterior and the 

 anal cells closed at a considerable distance from the wing 

 margin ; there is a broad irregular grey-brown band across 

 the middle and basal portion of the wing, leaving the 

 actual base of the wing, the apex of the first basal cell, 

 and the greater part of the fifth posterior cell, hyaline ; 

 wing-tip hyaline with a. suffused spot covering the lower 

 part of the cubital fork. 



Female, resembles the male very closely, but the eyes 

 are more widely separated and the abdomen longer and 

 more pointed ; colouring of the body, legs, and wings a9 

 in the male. 



Two other Australian species of Phycus have been 

 described — P. dinctr/ceformis, Schin., and P. pallidicor- 

 nis, Krob. — both from New South Wales; from the for- 



