240 Records of the S.A. Museum 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae with the scapal segments brown ; 

 flagellar segments yellow (only thirteen antennal segments remain, bnt the tip 

 is evidently broken, and the fnll nnmbei- is probably sixteen) ; there is no evidence 

 of any fnsion of segments ai the base of tlic tlagelhim as in many Eriopterini. 

 Head blackish (if any bloom is normally present it is destroyed in the nniqne 

 type) ; vertex between the eyes narrow. Pronotum dark bi-own. Mesonotnm 

 shiny greenish-yellow, the lateral margins of the praescutum broadly blackened; 

 scntellnm and postnotnm brighter, more yellowish. Pleura brownish-black. 

 Me.sosternnm between the fore and middle coxae with a greenish cast. Halteres 

 brownish-black. Legs with the coxae black; trochanters chestnut-brown; femora 

 yellow, the tips broadly (2-2 mm.) and abruptly black; til)iae yellow, the bases 

 and apices rather narrowly (IT) mm.) and subcfjually blackened; metatarsi 

 yellow, passing into light brown toward the tip ; remainder of the tai-si brown, the 

 terminal segment deepening into black. Wings hyaline, conspicnonsly varie- 

 gated with dark brown, pale brown, and yellow; cell (' dark bi-own, passing into 

 yellow before its ontei* end; cell Sc alternately dark ])rown and yellow; a con- 

 spicnons oval yellow mark in the stigmal region, surrounded by a conspicuous 

 semicircular dark brown mark that extends from the outer end of cell Se across 

 the fork of R- '^ and thence to the tip of R^ and r; two conspicuous dark brown 

 circular areas, one at the origin of Rs. the second at the fork of Rs, sending a 

 delicate seam along the cord to the fork of Cu; wing-apex broadly dark brown, 

 this including the ends of cells second R^ R-, R^, R"', and second M^ ; along the 

 posterior margin are three paler brown areas, extending from cell Cn^ to cell 

 second A, largest at the ends of veins Cu-, second A, and before the end of vein 

 first A, the latter narrowly connected Avith the brown seam at the cord; outer 

 end of cell first M- very narrowly and indistinctly infuscated; veins yellow, 

 darker in the infuscated areas. Venation : Sc^ ending opposite the fork of R^^^, 

 Sc^ alone being about equal to the basal deflection of Cu^ ; R^ beyond r longer 

 than the basal deflection of Cu^ ; Rs about equal to R-+3 ; basal deflection of R*"^"' 

 about equal to the first section of R- ; cell first M^ long and narroAv. about as long 

 as vein M^ beyond it ; inner ends of cells R'', first M-. and Cu^ in direct alignment ; 

 m equal to the outer deflection of M^ ; basal deflection of Cu^ near the fork of M. 

 (Abdomen broken.) 



Hah. Tasmania: Waratah (A. M. Lea). Type, T. 12152. 



EPIPHRAGMA Osten Sacken, 1859. 



The genus Epiphraijma had not been previously recorded from the Austra- 

 lasian Region, 



