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basal four segments yellowish, thence gradually passing into brown. Head with 

 a rather rather small brown area on vertex, the remainder of the vertex and 

 occiput pale buffy. 



ilesonotal pra?scutum brownish yellow, with four brown stripes, the 

 intermediate pair indistinct in front and strongly narrowed behind; postnotum 

 darkened posteriorly but with no conspicuous mark on the lateral sclerites as 

 in parallela. Pleura obscure yellow, the mesepisternum and mesosternum dark 

 coloured, with a conspicuous stripe of the ground-colour across the dorsal portions 

 of the latter. Legs with the femora yellow, the tips broadly dark brown ; tibia? 

 light brown, narrowly yellowish basally; tarsi dark brown. Wings light grey, 

 sparsely variegated with brown and subhyaline ; cells C and Sc brown, the 

 former with three small yellowish areas, two being basal in position, the last 

 apical; two small areas in the basal cells, one subbasal, the other subapical; a 

 conspicuous whitish area beyond the cord, extending without noticeable inter- 

 ruption from the inner end of cell R2 across cells R3, Ro, 1st M2 into the base 

 of M4 ; the brown area in the space behind vein Cu is almost continuous, but 

 interrupted by small pale spots at midlength and near the end. Venation : Sc 

 ending slightly beyond the origin of R2-\-3 ; Rs short, rather strongly arcuated 

 at origin ; R2^3 rather short, about equal to the basal deflection of Cul ; inner 

 end of cell 1st M2 slightly more proximad than cell R3 or R5 ; petiole of cell 

 Ml very short to entirely lacking, shorter than m; cell 1st M2 comparatively 

 large ; 2nd Anal vein comparatively short and straight. 



Abdominal tergites obscure yellow with two sublateral brow^n stripes, the 

 yellow dorso-median stripe thus formed being most distinct on segments 1 to 6, 

 segments 7 to 9 being almost entirely dark brown ; these brown marks on the 

 individual segments oblique, with the posterior ends directed proximad, the 

 posterior lateral angles of the tergites pale ; basal sternites light yellow, the fifth 

 to seventh sternites dark brown, especially across the posterior margins. 



Habitat: Queensland. 



Holotype, $ , Brisbane, May 23, 1916 (H. Hacker). 



Paratopotypes, 6 (J's. 



Type in the collection of the Queensland Museum. 



Hahromastix tcrrce-regime belongs to the group of H. cinerascens Skuse 

 and n. orn-atipes Skuse. It is the closest to the latter but the description of the 

 details of the wing-pattern of ornatipes is very different. It is readily told 

 from H. parallela by the short petiole of cell Ml, the wing-pattern, and other 

 -characters. 



Genus MACROMASTIX Osten Sacken. 



1886. Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 30, pt. 2, pp. 185-187. 



MACROMASTIX FLAVOPYGIALIS sp n. 

 Antennfe short; frontal prolongation of the head very long and slender, 

 dark brown ; head dark, the vertical tubercle yellow ; mesonotal praeseutum 



