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yellowish, anterior femora and the intermediate and posterior 

 femora and tibiae mostly dar*k, 'black or pitchy, hind tarsi dark 

 abov». Wings hyaline, stigma dark fuscous. 



Head rugose from the coarse shallow puncturation, as also is 

 the pronotum; mesonotum smooth and shining, with a few fine 

 punctures; propodeum finely irregularly rugose, its posterior 

 median are a well defined, smoother, and in certain aspects 

 slightly shining. Length 3 mm. 



Distinguished at once from P. chelogyiwidcs by the dark stigma 

 and the colour of the legs. 



Ha'b: Mittagong, N. S. W.; collected on Melaleuca, January 

 i8th, 1905, by Koe'bele. 



PIPUNCULIDAE. 



Pipitmnihis ciifrichodcs, sp. nov. 



Head black, with the front and face covered with glistening 

 white tomentum, posteriorly with greyish w'hite at the sides, 

 and fuscous in the middle. In the female the head between the 

 eyes in front of the ocelli is shin'ng black. Antennae black, 

 third joint yellow (sometimes somewhat clouded) and distinctly 

 acuminately produced at the apex. Thorax pilose, and clothed 

 with fuscous tomentum, at the sides in front and on the pleura 

 whitish; scutellum with long, fine, erect hairs; metanotum with 

 dense whitish tomentum. Halteres yellow, dark at base. Legs 

 black or piceous, tip of femora, tibiae, and tarsi yellow; the 

 tibiae more or less infuscate or blackish, as also the apical tarsal 

 joint. Abdomen black, shining, clothed with outstanding con- 

 spicuous longis'h pu'bescence. the first segment with a whitish 

 tomentose band; the second in the female generally noticeably 

 whitish, as also all the other segments at the sides in both sexes; 

 the basal segment is without any row of 'black bristles at the 

 sides; hypopygium less clothed than the other segments in the 

 male (but similarly in the female) and more or less impressed at 

 1'he base, with a smooth lateral lobe on the right side. Oviposi- 

 tor straight and rather short. Wings distinctly smo'ky, stigma 

 obscure 'brown, about as long as the fourth costal segment; 

 neuration black or dark brown, more or less pale at the base. 

 Length 3-3^ mm. 



Hab: Cairns district, Queensland. Not common. 



