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Exoneura diversipes n. sp. 



Male. Length about 7 mm. ; black, the knees, tibiae at extreme apex, and 

 middle arid anterior tarsi pale reddish, hind tarsi dark reddish ; eyes very large,, 

 converging below ; face with a very broad reversed T of greenish -white, including 

 all of clypeus except a narrow stripe down each side ; lateral marks represented 

 by short slender lines running up from the ends of the arms to the T ; labrum greenish- 

 white ; face with long black hair ; antennae entirely black ; hair of head and thorax 

 above long, brownish -black, pleura with blackish hair, under side of thorax with 

 white ; tegulse black ; wings hyaline, stigma and nervures clear ferruginous ; all 

 the femora, and anterior tibiae, and tarsi slender, hind tibiae slender basally and 

 broad apically, their basitarsi long and very thick. 



National Park, Q., Dec, 1919, three males {Hacker). Very distinct from alL 

 described males, and I know of no female to which it could be assigned. 



Exoneura rhodoptera n. sp. 

 Female. Length about 6 mm. ; very robust, black, with the abdomen marked 

 with dark red, at sides of first and second segments, a pair of hook-shaped marks on 

 second segment, a transverse band (weak or broken sublaterally) on third, base of 

 fourth, and an indistinct transverse band on fifth ; face broad, orbits parallel ; clypeus 

 Avith a broad median cream-coloured bar, irregular along the margins, and emitting at 

 the upper end very long hook-like extensions, the whole upper margin of clypeus 

 being narrowly pale ; on each side of the lower end of the pale bar is a reddish area ; 

 no lateral face- marks ; labrum black ; flagellum obscure reddish beneath ; tegulae 

 reddish ; wings strongly reddish-fuliginous, stigma and nervures dark-reddish ; 

 tubercles black ; femora with a pale red stripe above, not reaching base ; anterior 

 and middle tibiae and tarsi dark red ; hind legs darker. 



Stradbroke Island, Q., Sept. 17, 1915, one female {Hacker). Allied to E. 

 harnulata Ckll., but with very much darker abdomen, legs, and wings. 



Exoneura perpensa n. sp. 

 Male. Length about 6 mm. ; head and thorax black, with long hair, black on 

 head, dull white on thorax, very faintly yellowish dorsally ; head transverse ; eyes 

 very large and convex, face narrower, in middle hardly so broad as an eye ; clypeus 

 and labrum greenish- white, the light facial area like a reversed wineglass with an 

 extremely thick stem ; no lateral marks ; antennae black ; mesothorax and scutellum 

 not highly polished ; tegulae dark ; wings hyaline, faintly reddish, pale clear red 

 at base ; stigma narrow, ferruginous ; nervures ferruginous ; basal nervure strongly 

 arched, falling far short of nervulus ; femora and anterior and middle tibiae and 

 tarsi slender ; hind tibiae claviform, their basitarsi long and thick ; knees, anterior 

 tibiae except basal half behind, hind tibiae in front and apically behind, hind tibiae 

 at apex in front and anterior and middle tarsi all light ferruginous ; abdomen parallel- 

 sided, broad at base (slender basally in bicolor), first segment black, second black 



