60 Miss G. Ricardo on the 



and the supraalar apparently one more in number ; the 

 seventh segment of abdomen is entirely yellowish in the type 

 only, the last segment greyish yellow with a fringe of red 

 short spines. The hind tibiae are only black on the apical 

 third in the type only ; the small transverse vein of wing is 

 beyond the middle of the discal cell. Wings in both sexes 

 with very small alulae, as in species of Dioctria. 



JVeosaropor/on nigrinus, <$ , sp. n. 



Type (male) and three other males from Kuranda, Queens- 

 land {F. P. .Dodd), and two in Mr. Taylor's Coll. from 

 Queensland. 



A handsome species, nearly allied to iV. claripennis } 

 Ricardo, but distinguished by the darker abdomen, antennae, 

 and tarsi. 



Length 18 mm. 



Face covered with golden-yellow tomentum. Moustache 

 composed of long stout yellowish bristles round the oral 

 opening. Palpi black with black pubescence. Beard 

 yellowish. Antenna blackish, the third joint nearly three 

 times as long as the first two joints together, ending in an 

 obtuse knob on its lower border at apex. Forehead same as 

 face, with black hairs at sides and on ocelligerous tubercle ; 

 bristles at vertex round head are black, then yellowish hairs. 

 Thorax blackish, the shoulders and sides covered with yellow 

 tomentum, sides with black hairs. Praesutural bristles two 

 in number, stout and long ; two supraalar and two postalar 

 bristles, two very stout long dorso-central bristles, and a h\v 

 short finer ones intermixed ; dorsum of thorax nearly bare, a 

 few fulvous hairs are discernible. Scutellum with two black 

 bristles, covered with yellow tomentum. Abdomen long and 

 slender, blackish, with dull fulvous spots on the sides, and the 

 last three segments are almost wholly reddish yellow; geni- 

 talia rather large, black above and reddish yellow below, with 

 long yellowish tuft-like hairs ; dorsum with very tine 

 yellowish pubescence, not at all prominent, sides of first 

 segment with yellow hairs and three or four usually reddish 

 bristles; underside of abdomen dark. Legs reddish yellow, 

 the fore femora with a broad black stripe on their upper 

 sides, the others with a less well-marked dark stripe; tibiae 

 bright yellow with black apices, and all the tarsi black ; 

 femora with long yellow hairs below and short black pubes- 

 cence on dorsum ; tibiae with fringes of yellow hairs at sides 

 and on the pale parts and black pubescence at apex, and 



