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<J . Is identical. Palpi appear very much the same shape, 

 hut smaller, as in the female ; the dirty condition of the 

 type makes it difficult to describe them more fully. The 

 white-haired spots on abdomen are very distinct on nearly 

 every segment, the reddish-yellow colour is more pre- 

 dominant, the third segment being entirely so, with the 

 exception of a black spot like that on the second segment. 



Length 14< mm. 



Erephopsis contigua, ? , Walker, List Dipt. i. p. 138 (1818) 

 [Pangonia] ; Ricardo, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) v. 

 pp. 113, 116 (1900). 



Type (female) from Australia and another from New 

 South Wales in Brit. Mus. Coll. 



A series of females and males in Mr. Wainwright's Coll., 

 from Kuranda, Queensland (F. P. Dodd). 



A species with the markings on the wings very similar to 

 those of E. aureohirta, Ricardo, but at once distinguished 

 by its smaller size and wholly yellowish legs. 



Length of these specimens in Mr. Wainwright's Coll. : 

 females 12^-13 mm.; males 11-12 mm. Proboscis 2| mm. 

 $ . Face protuberant, shining in centre, reddish yellow 

 with grey tomentum, divided from cheeks by a deep furrow. 

 Palpi orange-rufous, the first joint yellow, the second joint 

 large and wide, concave, tapering to a short point, fringed 

 with black hairs. Beard yellowish white. Antennae orange 

 rufous, the first two joints yellow, with some black hairs, 

 which are long on the second joint. Forehead almost half 

 as wide again anteriorly as it is at vertex ; reddish, with 

 grey tomentum; when denuded a callus extending to a 

 stripe is visible, the callus being spindle-shaped. Thorax 

 reddish brown, with black pubescence ; hairs on shoulders 

 black, then yellowish, reaching to base of thorax ; dorsum 

 with some grey tomentum. Scutellum identical. Abdomen 

 ferruginous, the first two segments yellowish with irregular 

 small black spots ; pubescence on dorsum black. Legs pale 

 yellow, the tarsi a little darker ; pubescence black. Wings 

 with a fore border and apex and two dark bands brown — in 

 fact, the whole wing may be described as brown, having the 

 middle of the first posterior and the greater part of the 

 discal cell clear ; both the hasal cells, with the exception of 

 their bases and apices, clear, also the and cell clear, and 

 beyond the brown fades away, leaving the axillary angle 

 almost wholly clear; no appendix is present, the first 

 posterior cell is closed at border. 



