292 Rev. F. D. Morice's Notes on Australian Sairflies. 



Type. The author compares it with interruptus, King, but 

 it has little resemblance to that species and is evidently 

 much nearer to ductus. (I am inclined, as is also Mr. Turner, 

 to regard all these forms (distinctus, insignia, and zonal is) as 

 specifically not separable from ductus : but more material 

 is needed before the question can be positively decided). 



zonalis, Rohwer. 

 Queensland (Mackay). Type in B.M. 



!t. Joints 3rd to 8th of the antennae pale j-ellow. Apex of clypeus 

 not bilobate, but sinuated inwards very slightly through its 

 whole extent. C4cneral colour deep-black with slightly 

 metallic (greenish) reflections on the abdomen, jDiirplish on 

 the mesonotum, and brightly chalybeous on the face, except 

 the clypeus which is greenish at the base and violaceous 

 at the apex. Pronotum, scutellum and a very narrow (widely 

 interrupted) fascia at the apex of the propodeum pale yellow. 

 Wings yellowish, infuscated at their bases and in the radial 

 and cubital areas turneri, Rohwer. 



Queensland (Cairns). Type in B.M. 



■ — Antennae entirely black. Apex of clypeus bilobate . . . 10. 



10. Basal half of fore-wings and the entire hind-wings nearly clear 



and colourless, apical half only of fore -wings distinctly clouded. 



Abdomen entirely chalybeous except its extreme apex, which 



is yellow cyaneus, Leach * 



= leachii, Konow, nee W. F. Kirby. 

 Victoria. 



- Wings brownish-violaceous throughout, though darkest at their 

 bases and in the radial and cubital areas. Colour of body 

 as in cyaneus of which it is very probably a "subspecies."' 

 leachii, W. F. Kirby, nee Konow. 



Queensland (Bowen, Mackay, Townsville). Tvpe in 

 B.M. 



1. Abdomen brick-red, with the apical ventral plate, the pro- 

 podeum and the two following segments, and (N.B.) a spot 

 on each side of segments 4th to 8th, chalybeous or violaceous- 



* Leach does not mention the yellow apex of the abdomen, and 

 Konow therefore distinguishes cyaneus bom leachii as not having 

 this character. Bui in fact the colour of the ^ abdomen is identical 

 in both forms, though in the J J it does differ as stated by Konow ! 



