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pale yellow with black hairs, rather thick and stout. Fore- 

 head nearly half as wide again anteriorly as it is at the 

 vertex, reddish brown, covered with tawny tomentum ; no 

 callus visible, black pubescence visible. Eyes hairy. Thorax 

 blackish, covered with grey tomentum and with appressed 

 yellow hairs ; shoulders yellowish, with black and yellow 

 hairs ; sides with long yellowish hairs reaching the base of 

 scutellum, which latter has yellow hairs on its posterior 

 border. Abdomen amber-brown, darker at apex, some grey 

 tomentum on first segment; dorsum with short black pubes- 

 cence, and some few yellowish hairs on centre of first, 

 second, and third segments, but those on the fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth segments much more numerous and noticeable ; 

 underside pale reddish yellow, with short yellow pubescence. 

 Legs amber-brown, with chiefly black pubescence. Wings 

 large, clear, yellowish on fore border ; veins reddish yellow; 

 no appendix ; the first posterior cell narrowed at border. 



Diatomineura pulchra, ? , sp. n. 



Type (female) from Yandina, S. Queensland, Feb. 1900 

 (H. Tryon), 1907, 285, and another female from Burpengary, 

 S. Queensland (Dr. T. L. Bancroft), 1904, in Brit. Mus. 

 Coll. 



A species near Diatomineura crassa, Wlk., but distinct, 

 being smaller in size ; the abdominal spots are not white, 

 but a bright golden yellow, with none on the second seg- 

 ment, and the apex is not wholly golden-haired. 



A handsome small blackish species, with four golden- 

 yellow-haired abdominal spots, and the same-coloured hairs 

 on the thorax. 



Length 11 mm. ; proboscis 2 mm. 



Face reddish, covered with yellowish-gi'ey tomentum, very 

 convex on the centre, separated by a deep furrow from the 

 cheeks ; pubescence brown, but very sparse. Beard yellow. 

 Palpi stout, wide at base, ending in a short point, orange- 

 rufous in colour, devoid of pubescence. Antenna orange- 

 rufous, the first two joints reddish, covered with grey 

 tomentum. Forehead parallel, about three times as long as 

 it is broad, dark brown in colour, anteriorly covered with 

 yellowish-grey tomentum ; frontal callus indistinct and 

 small. Eyes with short dark pubescence. Thorax blackish 

 brown, with golden-yellow hairs on its anterior border, at 

 sides, and on its posterior border. Scutellum also covered 

 with them. Abdomen reddish brown, covered with short 

 black pubescence ; on the third, fourth, and sixth segments 



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