BY ARTHUR WHITE. 1 < 7 



X. caUylnosus is a fairly common species; it may be met 

 with settled on the ground or on tree-td'unks. My dates 

 range from October 20 to February 13. It also occurs 

 feommonlv in New South Wales. 



"N'eoitamus vulgatus, AVhite (Fig. 28). 



Thorax black and grey or black and yellowish ; scut^l- 

 luni with two long, black, terminal bristles; abdomen 

 black with hind-margins of segments indistinctly grey ; 

 femora black; tibiae with basal half, or two-thirds, dark 

 red ; wings with the second posterior cell broad and not 

 contracted. 



Length. Male, 14 mm. ; female (including ovipositor), 

 15.5 mm. 



Hab. Bagdad Valley. (Probabh^ generally distribut- 

 ed.) 



Fig. 28. Wing of Neoifanius vulgatus. 



Male. Face covered with yellowish-grey tomenttim. 

 Moustache black above, white beneath. Front black, with 

 a little light tomentum. Thorax with two black median 

 stripes, divided by a yellowish line, bordered outwardly 

 with yellowish-grey, and with two broad lateral black 

 stripes, which are broken up by light cross-lines into four 

 distinct patches, in this respect differing from X. hyali- 

 I'fnnls, which has the side-stripes almost entire; bristles 

 black; scutellum grey, with two long, black, terminal 

 bristles. Abdomen black, with hind-margins of segments 

 indistinctly grey. Legs with femora black ; anterior and 

 middle tibite with basal two-thirds dark red, apical third 

 black ; posterior tibise with basal half dark red, apical 

 half black ; anterior and middle tarsi with first joint two- 

 thirds red, posterior tarsi with first joint only red at base; 

 remaining tarsal joints black, with base of each reddish ; 

 bristles of legs mostly black, but with also a few white 

 ones. Wings tinged with brown, the cubital fork naiTOw 

 and contracted in the middle, the second posterior cell 

 broad and not contracted. 



