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along the cord and longitudinal veins beyond the cord; the yellow areas are 

 restricted to the basal and anal cells, the first spot basal in position, occupying 

 the inner end of cell M and near the base of 1st A but interrupted in between ; 

 the second area lies across cells R and M immediately before the origin of Rs ; 

 a similar pale area across the bases of cells R3 and R5 ; veins dark brown. 

 Venation: Cell Ml lacking; m-cu punctiform, situated at about midlength of 

 ceU 1st M2. 



Abdominal tergites yellow, the basal two segments brighter, each with 

 a low triangular black band across the caudal margins, the apex of the triangle 

 being directed cephalad ; segments 3 and 4 are narrowly margined caudally with 

 brownish black ; remainder of the tergites yellowish ; stemites yellow, segments 

 4 to 8 obscure brownish. Ovipositor with the valves very blunt and fleshy as 

 in the genus. 



Habitat : Queensland. 



Holotype, 9, Brisbane (H. Hacker). 



Paratopotype, 9 , February 12, 1914. 



Type in the collection of the Queensland Museum. 



Genus HABRO^IASTIX Skuse. 



1890. Proc. Linnean Soc, New South Wales, vol. 5 (ser. 2), pp. 93, 94. 



There have been three Australian and six Ethiopian species of this genus 

 so far made known. In the present collection, two species are included, neither 

 of which agrees with any of the hitherto known forms. 



HABROMASTIX PARALLELA sp. n. 

 Frontal prolongation of the head elongate, light brown ; mesonotal 

 praescutum pale brownish yellow with four darker brown stripes; mesonotal 

 postnotum dark brown posteriorly, including a conspicuous mark in front of the 

 halteres; halteres pale at their apices; legs yellowish, the femora and tibiae 

 tipped with dark brown ; wings hyaline, the basal cells cross-banded wdth grey, 

 in the cell behind vein Cu appearing as four dark-brown spots. 



Female. — Length, 23 mm. ; wing, 19-3 mm. Hind leg, femur, 13 mm. ; 

 tibia, 15-8 mm. ; tarsus, 35 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head very long and slender, light brown, 

 with a narrow^ slightly darker lateral line; palpi light brown. Antennae with 

 the basal segments light yellow, the flagellum broken beyond the basal segment, 

 this latter elongate. Head dark brown ; eyes large and protuberant, very 

 narrowly separated beneath, more widely separated above. 



Mesonotal prasscutum pale' brownish yellow with four darker brown stripes ; 

 remainder of the mesonotum yellow, only the posterior half of the postnotum 

 dark brown, this including a conspicuous area on the lateral sclerites of the 

 postnotum in front of the halteres. Pleura yellow, a conspicuous brown area 

 on the mesosternum, ventral portions of the mesosternum, and on the outer faces 



