280 Rev. F. D. Morice's Notes on Australian gawflies. 



:>(>. (32) Legs and venter violaceous black. Tempora, scutellum, 

 and sides of abdomen, bright reddish-orange. Scutellum 

 unusually wide at the apex, its lobate Eai apart. 



Length about 15 mm jucunda, \V. F. Kirby. 



\Y. Australia (Swan River). Type in B.M. 



— Legs and venter at least partly pale or red 37. 



37. Hind tibiae not blackened at their apices 38. 



— Hind tibiae blackened at their apices ....... 40. 



38. Legs and venter bright orange-red. Length about 13 mm. 



amenaida = rufomaculata, W. F. Kirby. 



This $ was described by W. F. Kirby as rufomaculata, 

 but Konow was right, I think., in treating it as the $ of 

 amenaida (£), which name precedes rufomaculata in Kirby 's 

 List. 



Adelaide. Type in B.M. 



— Legs and venter not reddish, but pale luteous .... 39. 



39. Antennae scutellum and venter entirely luteous. Length 



about 14-| mm. Tempora, a pair of longitudinal streaks 

 behind the posterior ocelli, edge of pronotuni very narrowly 

 and oblique lateral carinations of mesonotum yellow. Body 

 nearly dead-black, the abdomen having a very shghl tinge 

 of metallic purple only noticeable in a strong light. 



jurinei, Westw. 

 N.W. Australia? Type (a £) at Oxford ($ in B.M.). 



Antennae, pari at least of scutellum, and sides of ventral seg- 

 ments black. Abdomen with a very noticeably metallic 

 coloration, purple in some lights, blue in others; the pro- 

 podeum, however', the mesonotum, the pronotum (except 

 its luteous edges), and the dark markings on various parts 

 of the fulvous head are simply Mark. . semipurpurata, n. sp.* 



Of two specimens in B.M. one (the Type) is larger. 

 fully 15 mm. long; its scutellum is yellow, bisected longi- 

 tudinally by a broadish stripe of black; its antennae 



* Xyloperga semipurpurata, n. sp. 

 ('aj)iit fulvum nigro-variegatum ; thorax niger Luteo-pictus ; 

 propodeum nigrum, reliqui abdominis dorsum (exceptis lateribus 

 et apice luteis, pulcherrime met (purpureo-cyaneum), 



venter luteus nigro anguste marginatus. Pedes post coxas toti 

 lutei. Alae superiores lutescentes, inferiores albo-vitreae. Long. 

 15 12 Him. (Scutellum vel flavum nigro-vittatum, vel interdum 

 totum nigrum.) 



