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Observations. Described from specimens taken by Dr. 

 Giblin and Dr. Breinl. 



It is easily distinguished from L. magna, Theobald, by 

 the absence of the white scales on the mesonotum and 

 the leg banding. 



The wing venation, the squamose character of the head, 

 inter alia, are sufficient to separate this insect from un- 

 doubted specimens of Skusea funerea, Theob., in the 

 collections of the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine. 



Leucomyia australiensis, Theobald, 

 var. papuensis, var. nov. 



(Plate XVII, fig. 5.) 



Head brown, with scattered brown and pale scales and black 

 upright forked ones; proboscis brown. Thorax ochraceous, the 

 front tv/o -thirds with silvery white scales, the third with brown 

 ones. Abdomen with deep brown scales and basal banding to 

 some of the segments. Legs black scaled and basal banding to 

 hind tarsi. Wings with dark brown scales. 



$. Head brown with scattered brown and creamy narrow curved 

 scales and black upright forked ones, a patch of white narrow 

 curved ones in the centre extending between the eyes; eyes black 

 with a thin fringe of brown hairs overhanging them ; antennae 

 dark brown clothed with fairly dense short brown pile; palpi 

 clothed with black scales ; proboscis black scaled ; clypeus black. 



Thorax ochraceous with the front two-thirds densely clothed 

 with white narrow curved scales, the hind third with brown narrow 

 curved ones and a narrow edge of brown ones to the sides, a row 

 of dense dark brown hairs on the sides extending from the scutellum 

 to mid-way between the wing roots and the prothoracic lobes, the 

 latter with narrow curved brown scales and numerous brown hairs ; 

 scutellum ochraceous with brown narrow curved scales (pale in 

 some lights); metanotum ochraceous: pleurae brownish with 

 patches of white flat scales. 



Abdomen brownish black scaled with violet tints in some lights, 

 and white basal banding to most of the segments; first segment 

 brown scaled with golden brown chaetae ; segments two to five with 

 white basal banding, segments six and seven with white lateral 

 patches; penultimate and apical segments black scaled, posterior 

 border bristles pale golden brown; segments two to seven with 

 white lateral spots; venter brown scaled; segments five to eight 

 with white lateral patches, the patch on eighth segment the 



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