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red in life, in tlie dry state reddish grey ; facial quadrangle 

 much longer than broad, little narrowed below ; face densely 

 covered with fulvous hair ; mandibles black ; labial palpi 

 with first joint robust and dark, the others pallid ; cheeks 

 broad, with much white hair below ; antennae black, flagellum 

 long; vertex broad, with dark fuscous hair; punctures of 

 vertex small and dense on each side of ocelli, larger and 

 sparser (the shining surface showing) posteriorly; meso- 

 thorax densely and coarsely punctured ; hair of thorax white, 

 without any yellow tint, shining silvery on scutellum, but 

 black or dark fuscous on anterior middle of mesothorax ; 

 tegulse piceous. Wings strongly dusky, upper half of mar- 

 ginal cell fuliginous. Legs black, with white hair ; anterior 

 tarsi simple, hair on inner side of tarsi yellowish ; anterior 

 coxas simple, very hairy ; hind spurs black. Abdomen 

 shining, with very large distinct punctures ; hair short and 

 black, loose and white at base of first segment ; a dense 

 triangular patch of pure white hair at each side of first 

 segment (compare M. gilbertiella) ; no hair-bands ; middle of 

 sixth segment with appressed silky-white hair, and a little of 

 the same on fifth ; margin of sixth very obtusely bilobed, 

 the actual margin of sixth (beneath) has a pair of angular 

 projections; last ventral with a broad whitish margin. 



tlab. Mackay, Queensland (Turner). British Museum. 

 The type is marked 10 a, and was taken in Sept. 1900. 

 Others were taken in October 1901. 



Easily known from M. austeni, Ckll., by the large distinct 

 punctures of the abdomen. 



The following table separates several males in which the 



apex of the abdomen is not red (although in linealipes there 

 is a pale fulvous hair-patch) : — 



Anterior tarsi greatly modified 1. 



Anterior tarsi simple ; sixth abdominal segment 



not spined 4. 



1. Middle tibiae bright red in front ; scape bright red. oculipes, Ckll. 

 Middle tibia? dark 2. 



2. Sixth abdominal segment with a median sharp 



point vestitor, Ckll. 



Sixth segment without such a point 3. 



3. Sixth segment with two sharp teeth lineatipes, Ckll. 



Sixth segment without such teeth latipes, Sm. 



4. Abdomen with large distinct punctures sericeicauda, Ckll. 



Abdomen with small indistinct punctures austeni, Ckll. 



