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forked ones over the whole head ; eyes purple black, fringe scanty, 

 brown ; antennae brown with very fine pile, verticillate hairs bro\\Ti ; 

 proboscis yellowish with basal half covered with loosely applied 

 brown scales, apical to the basal half is a distinct narrow yellowish 

 band, the rest black ; palpi pale, covered with brown scales ; clypeus 

 brown. 



Thorax dark bro\vn, somewhat denuded, covered with yellowish 

 brown narrow curved scales, a lateral row of dusky brown bristles 

 extending from the scutellum to the roots of the wings and two short 

 rows in front of the scutellum ; prothoracic lobes brown, fairly 

 prominent with a few long and numerous short brown hairs (no 

 scales could be seen); pleurae yellowish (almost denuded) with a 

 few creamy fiat scales; scutellum brown with yellowish brown 

 narrow curved scales with four dusky brown bristles to the mid lobe 

 and five to the lateral lobes, three in front and two behind ; metano- 

 tum brown. 



Abdomen dark brown, truncate, covered with brown scales, 

 posterior border bristles golden yellow with brown lateral bristles, 

 segments three to five with apical lateral creamy spots, not so 

 prominent on the fifth ; venter covered with pale ochraceous scales 

 and short yellowish hairs. 



Legs brown scaled ; femora and tibiae with three patches of pale 

 equidistant ochraceous scales ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with the veins covered with brown scales; costa dusky 

 brown ; fringe pale browTi ; first fork-cell longer and narrower than 

 the second, the base of the latter slightly nearer the base of the wing ; 

 stem of the first fork-cell about half the length of its cell, stem of the 

 second about one-third the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein 

 longer than the mid and twice its own length distant from it. 

 Halteres with stem creamy and knob brownish. 



Length 3'5 mm. 



Habitat. Lakekamu Gold Field. 



Observations. Described from four specimens taken by 

 Dr. Giblin. 



Melanoconion papuensis, n. sp. 



Head densely clothed with narrow curved and upright forked 

 scales. Thorax brown. Abdomen denseljr clothed with brown 

 scales. Legs dark brown. 



$. Head brown densely clothed with light brown narrow curved 

 hair-like scales, pale upright forked ones in the centre and dark ones 

 on the sides, a narrow border of flat white ones at the sides round 

 the eyes, the latter purple black, border fringe pale brown ; antennae 



