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



certain species, and PI. XI. Fig. 12) for the neuration of 

 the wings. 



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1. Dorsum of abdomen, except its yellow apex, unicolorous 



chalybeous or deep-black with no broad yellow or testaceous 

 markings. (Group of cyaneus) 9. 



— Dorsum of abdomen entirely testaceous, or broadly banded 



with that colour or with yellow 2. 



2. Pronotum and scutellum concolorous with the mesonotum — 



chalybeous not testaceous nor yellow. Length of body 



seldom exceeds 10 mm 3. 



- Pronotum and part at least of the scutellum testaceous or 

 yellow. Mostly large forms, 1~> mm. long or more . . 4. 



3. At least 5 consecutive segments of the abdomen are testaceous. 



Wings (PI. XI, Fig. 12) for the most part clear hyaline, but 

 distinctly clouded under the stigma — the clouding elongate, 

 extending a little beyond the apex of the radial cell. Costa 

 not concolorous with the subcosta but yellowish. Antennae 

 (PI. XII, Fig. 10) not simply serrate as in most $2 of this 

 genus, but evidently pectinate though more shortly so than 

 those of the S6- • • analis, Costa gaudialis, Konow. 



— Only four consecutive abdominal segments are testaceous. 



Wings more or less violaceo-fuscous throughout, but (as 

 usual in this genus) somewhat more so in the upper part 

 of the fore-wing. Costa and subcosta concolorous — fuscous. 

 Antennae (PI. XII, Fig. 9) simply serrate. 



uniformis, W. V. Kirby. 



Queensland (Mackay). Type in B.M. 



4. About as large as analis and uniformis, smaller than the spp. 



following. Abdomen, except its extreme base and the apex 

 of the saw-sheath, entirely testaceous. Middle lobe of 

 mesonotum narrowly yellowish at the sides. Fore-wings 

 (N.B.) bisected transversely by a conspicuous dusky stripe 

 which runs from the stigma right down to the inferior margin. 

 A similar but smaller clouding covers the upper basal nerve 

 and tills the base of the wing, and the inferior margin is 

 clouded likewise. (The antennae in the only B.M. specimen 

 have only 12 joints, but this is probably exceptional. Brulle 

 figures the antennae of his Type as 20-jointed.) 



bifasciatus, Brulle. 



X. S. Walks (Tweed River) B.M. Coll. Tasmania 

 (teste Brulle). 



