270 Rev. F. D. Morice's Notes on Australian S&wflies. 



labium and antennae entirely black. Length about 15 mm. 

 Saw, PI. XIV, Fig. 16 antiopa, n. sp.* 



S. W. Australia (Yallrngup and Kalamunda). Type 

 (and other specimens of both sexes) in B.M. 



— Abdomen belted with red, black at base and apex, and without 

 any yellow markings. Scutellum margined with yellow. 

 Head above black. Hind tibiae and tarsi dark red (not 

 " entirely black " as stated by Konow). Wings dusky, 

 blackish brown, especially under the stigma-. Length about 

 1-1 mm. Saw, PI. XIV, Fig. 11 . . . esenbeckii, W'estw. 



S. W. Australia (Swan River). Tvpe at Oxford. 



Another 2 in B.M. 



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15. Antennae with only rive f joints visible. Wings in West 



* Perga antiopa, n. sp. 

 $ Nigra, labro an tennis que concoloribus. Lutea vel eburnea 

 sunt — tubercula antennalia, parsque genarum his adjacens; clypei 

 latera; mandibularum maculae basales; striga longa (superne 

 abbreviata) postocularis ; pronoti margo posterior; scutellum; pleu- 

 rorum pedumque major pars (apicibus vero tibiarum posticarum 

 tarsorumque nigris); segmentorum abdominis dorsalium 7 mi et 

 8 vi margines apicales; et in segmentis praecedentibus maculae 

 magnae laterales ventralesque, quae tamen desuper spectanti vix 

 (aut ne vix quidem) apparent. 



Scutellum sparse punctatum, sulco mediano divisum. Alae 

 brunneo subfuscatae. Clypei apex subexcisus. Antennae capi- 

 tatae, normales, articulo 3 tio sequentibus duobus conjunct is 

 subaequali. 



<$ Pictura corporis cum V satis bene congruit; differt vero capite 

 et thorace plus minusve copiose rufo'-variegatis, etiamque antennis 

 post articulum 2 du:n , pedibus totis, mesonoto pleurisque partim 

 rufis, clypeo et plerumque labro immaculatis, flavis, ventre copiosius 

 flavo-picto. 



f Konow questions this, but Westwood's statement is perfectly 

 correct, and his enlarged figure of the antenna shows the character 

 clearly, (( !f. also my Fig. 18, in PI. XV which is drawn from Kirby's 

 Type-specimen of bisecta.) 



Authors have blundered strangely about this species. W. F. 

 Kirby placed his bisecta in his Section 1, as though its antennae had 

 been of normal length and shape, while he actually enumerates 

 mayrii among the species of his Section 111. as though its antennae 

 were seven-] ointed ! Shipp makes confusion even worse confounded. 

 Although Westwood's Type was actually in his charge, and he 

 might have counted for himself the joints of its antennae and the 

 nerves of its cubital area, he adopts, instead. Kirby's erroneous 

 classification and Westwood's figure of the wing in which the 

 ticiiration is imperfectly represented, and erects accordingly an 

 imaginary "genus" of which he names mayrii, W'estw., as the 



