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Chrysops albicinctus, v. d. Wulp. This last is from New 

 Guinea, the former from Tasmania. 

 One new species is now described. 



Chrysops australis, ? , sp. n. 



Type (female) and another from Herherton, Queensland, 

 3700 ft. (Dodd), in German Ent. Museum. 



Type (male) and others from Kuranda and. Herberton in 

 ]\ir. Wainwright's Coll., by the same collector. 



A species with the usual dark brown band on wing-, 

 divided by a clear, distinct, narrow band from the pale 

 brown apex. Abdomen brownish, with a pale yellow band 

 on the second segment and a median yellow short stripe. 



Length 10 mm. 



Face honey-yellow, covered with grey tomentum, bare and 

 shining in the centre. Palpi reddish yellow. Antennae 

 long and slender, the first two joints honey-yellow, with 

 some black pubescence, about equal in length, the third 

 equal in length to the two joints combined, stouter, the 

 first division- as long as the four succeeding ones, which are 

 equal in size ; the colour of this third joint is rather a darker 

 shade than the others, and some very fine pubescence is 

 apparent. Forehead black, with grey tomentum ; the 

 frontal spot is represented by a large brownish tubercle, not 

 reaching the eyes ; forehead broad ; ocelli distinct. Eyes 

 bare. Thorax reddish brown, shoulders with golden-yellow 

 pubescence, which is continued in an oblique stripe on the 

 breast ; there is a tuft of similar hairs at base of wings. 

 Scutellum same colour as thorax. Abdumen blackish brown, 

 more reddish brown towards the apex ; the dark colour on 

 the second segment is represented as a halt-circle, deeply 

 indented on its posterior border by the median yellowish 

 spot, all the anterior half of the segment and its sides being- 

 pale yellow or whitish ; on the third and fourth segments 

 the median spots are long and narrow ; underside with the 

 base of abdomen pale yellow. Legs reddish yellow, with 

 black pubescence, the tarsi pale yellow, tibiae a little incras- 

 sate. Wings with the fore border and the transverse band 

 brown, and the whole apex paler brown, divided from the 

 band by a white narrow band running across from the base 

 of the fork of the third vein. 



Male identical. Palpi with long brown hairs. Eyes 



contiguous, the large facets pale brass-colour, with two dark 



spots and a curved dark band on the outer posterior border 



of each eye, the small facets brown. Thorax and scutellum 



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