240 Mr. Frederick Smith on 



4. Dimorphoptera clypeata. 



Female. Length 8 lines. Black : the abdomen banded 

 with orange. Head and thorax with thin cinereous 

 pubescence ; the clypeus, inner margin of the eyes, and 

 a line behind them^ yellow ; the mandibles fringed be- 

 neath with stiff ferruginous hairs ; the wings fusco-hya- 

 linej the nervures black, the posterior wings palest ; the 

 legs with a glittering white scattered pubescence, the 

 calcaria white ; the posterior femora incrassate, com- 

 pressed beneath into a thin plate, the tibias with a row 

 of blunt teeth outside. Abdomen smooth and shining, 

 a few scattered punctures on the fifth segment, and 

 along the apical margins of the other segments ; the 

 second, third, and fourth segments with a broad orange 

 band, not extending to the posterior margins, the bands 

 notched in the middle posteriorly, and curved to the 

 sides ; the apical segment densely covered with ferru- 

 ginous hair ; beneath, the second and third segments have 

 a broad basal band notched in the middle posteriorly. 



Hab. Champion Bay. 



5 . Dhnorplioptera fastuosa . 



Female. Length 7 lines. Ferruginous: the head, tip 

 of the abdomen, mesothorax, and scutellum, black. The 

 mandibles, anterior margin of the clypeus, and the scape 

 of the antennge, ferruginous ; tips of the mandibles black. 

 Thorax : the prothorax, sides, and legs, with ferruginous 

 pubescence ; the spines at the apex of the tibia? pale tes- 

 taceous ; the intermediate and posterior thickly spinose 

 outside ; the wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferru- 

 ginous. Abdomen punctured, most strongly and closely 

 towards the apex, the apical segment with coarse longi- 

 tudinal punctures ; its tip rufo-piceous, smooth, and shin- 

 ing 5 the wings extending to two-thirds the length of 

 the abdomen. 



Hab. Chatnpion Bay. 



In the British Museum. 



This species has the wings shorter than the abdomen. 



