﻿Spedes 
  of 
  Tiih.wms 
  from 
  Polynesia. 
  4^77 
  

  

  flovsiim. 
  Legs 
  reddisli, 
  lighter 
  in 
  colour 
  tlian 
  abdomen. 
  

   Wings 
  clear, 
  yellow 
  on 
  fore 
  border 
  ; 
  stigma 
  yellow 
  ; 
  veins 
  

   yellowish. 
  

  

  Length 
  12 
  mm. 
  

  

  TaJ>aniis 
  C'ded 
  micus^ 
  Ricardo. 
  

  

  Atylotiis 
  albonotatus, 
  Bigot, 
  Mem. 
  Soc. 
  Zool. 
  de 
  France, 
  v. 
  p. 
  670 
  

   (1892), 
  nomen 
  bis 
  lectuin. 
  

  

  Type, 
  a 
  female 
  in 
  the 
  late 
  ]\lr. 
  Verrall^s 
  coll. 
  fiom 
  New 
  

   C^aledoriia; 
  and 
  a 
  male 
  and 
  female 
  erroneously 
  labelled 
  

   T. 
  lifuensis, 
  Ins. 
  Lifu, 
  on 
  one 
  of 
  Bigot's 
  original 
  labels, 
  but 
  

   undoubtedly 
  identical 
  with 
  this 
  type. 
  

  

  A 
  stout-bodied 
  brown 
  species 
  with 
  wings 
  tinged 
  brown. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Face 
  covered 
  with 
  brownish-yellow 
  tomentnm, 
  a 
  

   few 
  short 
  brown 
  hairs 
  on 
  cheeks. 
  Beard 
  composed 
  of 
  brown 
  

   liairs 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  yellowish 
  ones 
  intei 
  mixed. 
  Pa/pj 
  reddish 
  

   yellow 
  witli 
  black 
  hairs, 
  long, 
  almost 
  the 
  same 
  width 
  

   throughout, 
  ending 
  in 
  a 
  long 
  point. 
  Antennw 
  dull 
  reddish 
  

   yellow, 
  the 
  first 
  two 
  joints 
  with 
  black 
  hairs, 
  the 
  third 
  long 
  

   and 
  slender, 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  short 
  (not 
  wide) 
  base, 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  

   but 
  acute 
  angle 
  representing 
  the 
  tooth, 
  the 
  remaining 
  part 
  

   narrow. 
  Subcallus 
  same 
  colour 
  as 
  face. 
  Forehead 
  parallel, 
  

   about 
  tive 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  broad 
  ; 
  the 
  frontal 
  caUus 
  

   large, 
  almost 
  square, 
  not 
  reaching 
  the 
  eyes, 
  continued 
  in 
  a 
  

   short 
  point, 
  yellowish 
  in 
  colour 
  ; 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  forehead 
  is 
  

   entirely 
  shining 
  brown, 
  rather 
  protuberant. 
  Eyes 
  bare. 
  

   Thorax 
  brownish 
  with 
  yellow 
  tomentum, 
  which 
  causes 
  the 
  

   brown 
  to 
  appear 
  as 
  stripes. 
  Scutellum 
  reddish 
  brown. 
  

   Breast-sides 
  with 
  thick 
  tufts 
  of 
  black 
  hairs. 
  Abdomen 
  

   brown, 
  in 
  the 
  type 
  with 
  very 
  narrow 
  pale 
  segmentations, 
  

   and 
  on 
  each 
  segment 
  a 
  median 
  bluntly 
  triangular 
  pale 
  spot 
  ; 
  

   in 
  the 
  other 
  female 
  these 
  spots 
  are 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hairs, 
  

   and 
  the 
  segmentations 
  are 
  less 
  distinct 
  ; 
  underside 
  brown 
  

   with 
  white-haired 
  segmentations. 
  Legs 
  brownish, 
  the 
  

   femora 
  reddish 
  below, 
  tibise 
  dull 
  reddisii. 
  Wings 
  large, 
  

   tinged 
  with 
  brown, 
  leaving 
  the 
  discal 
  and 
  basal 
  cells 
  some- 
  

   what 
  paler, 
  also 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  veins 
  brown 
  ; 
  stigma 
  reddish 
  

   brown. 
  

  

  Length 
  20 
  mm. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Identical. 
  The 
  large 
  facets 
  restricted 
  to 
  upper 
  

   part 
  of 
  eyes 
  and 
  not 
  very 
  large, 
  though 
  quite 
  distinct. 
  On 
  

   the 
  underside 
  of 
  abdomen 
  the 
  white 
  hairs 
  are 
  restricted 
  to 
  

   the 
  sides. 
  

  

  Length 
  21 
  mm. 
  

  

  