20 Miss G. Ricardo on the 



Sinclair) and other males from New Zealand (Col. Bolton 

 and H. Clark). One male from Wellington in the Cockayne 

 Coll. One female from New Zealand (Col. Bolton). Two 

 females from Wellington in the Cockayne Coll. 



A small species with a reddish-yellow abdomen marked 

 with median black spots. Antennae slender, the first two 

 joints yellowish, the third black. Palpi and legs yellow. 



Length (male type) 10| mm., others 12-13. 



Female (type) iO^-12 mm. 



S . Face covered with yellowish-grey tomentnm and with 

 short brown hair on cheeks, centre of face depressed. 

 Palpi pale yellow, the second joint with black hairs and 

 long white hairs at the apex. Beard white, thick. Anteniue 

 reddish yellow, the third only so at its extreme base, then 

 blackish ; the first two joints with thick black pubescence, 

 the third joint slender, with a distinct tooth or angle, on 

 which a few hairs are aoparent. Eyes with short sparse 

 pubescence, the large facets only cover about half the 

 surface of the eye, and are not much larger than the others ; 

 they do not quite reach the hind border. 



Thorax raw umber, covered with rather dense pale 

 pubescence ; hairs on shoulders and at sides dark and longer ; 

 breast with thick white pubescence. Scutellum identical. 

 Abdomen amber-brown ; the black spot on the first segment 

 yery small, on the second one oblong, almost attaining the 

 "width of segment, those on the next two segments more 

 square as also on the remaining segments ; in some of the 

 males the apex is almost entirely blackish ; all segmenta- 

 tions rather paler ; pubescence on dorsum short, black, 

 becoming longer at the apex and at sides ; underside paler. 

 Legs pale amber-brown, with long pale hairs on the coxae 

 and femora and underside of tibiae, elsewhere black, in some 

 of the males the femora are blackish or reddish brown on 

 their basal halves. Wings large, clear, pale yellow on the 

 costal border ; stigma pale yellow ; veins yellow, those on 

 the fore border black and stouter. 



$ . Identical, hairs on face and antennae not so numerous. 

 Palpi slender, ending in a long point, yellow ; the first joint 

 with long yellowish hairs, the second joint with black 

 pubescence, two-thirds the length of proboscis. Forehead 

 slightly narrower at vertex, about five times as long as it is 

 wide anteriorly ; the frontal callus pale yellow or brown, 

 small, with a lineal extension. Abdomen with less pubescence. 

 In the females from Wellington the black median stripe is 

 not very distinct, and in all the females it is narrower and 

 composed of ill-defined narrow spots forming a stripe, the 

 apex not darker. 



