8 Mr. 'W D. A. Cockeiell — Descriptions and 



first s.in. arched ; first r. n. entering the high second s.m, 

 near base ; stigma large. Abdomen broad, with dark brown 

 bands ; first segment with a median dark line and an obliqne 

 band on each side of basal declivity, and also a broad baud 

 along apical margin ; second to fourth segments witli basal 

 and apical bands, the basal bands not reaching extreme base, 

 so that the apical band of one segment is separated from the 

 basal of the next by more or less of a yellow line ; apex 

 suffused with reddish brown. 



Hab. Townsville, Queensland [F. P. Dodd, 5.1.03). 

 British Museum. 



A very distinct species, not unlike E.furcifcra, bnt much 

 larger. 



Halicfus mirandus, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 10-lOi mm. 



Black, with the femora (anterior ones only apically), tibia?, 

 and tarsi bright chestnut-red; front and mesothorax ob- 

 scurely feneous or greenish; head broad ; clypens shining, 

 strong!}'' punctured ; front granular ; flagellum very dark 

 reddish beneath ; cheeks with white hair, face, front, and 

 vertex with black, but vertex, front, and sides of face also 

 with pale hair ; disc of mesothorax brilliantly shining, with 

 scattered large and minute punctures ; mesothorax and 

 scutellum with erect black hair, but pale hair on mesothorax 

 anteriorly and sides of scutellum ; postscuteilum densely 

 tomentose anteriorly ; tubercles and pleura with pale fulvous- 

 tinted hair ; area of metathorax large, finely granular, 

 obscurely minutely lineolate, bounded by a groove, imme- 

 diately beyond which is a ridge ; posterior truncation sharply 

 defined at sides; tegulse clear ferruginous. Wings dusky 

 reddish, quite strongly coloured, stigma and nervures bright 

 ferruginous ; second s.m. large ; first r. n. meeting second 

 t.-c. ; outer r. n. and t.-c. weakened. Legs with pale golden- 

 reddish hair ; hind spur with two broad teeth. Abdomen 

 black (second segment obscurely greenish basally), shining, 

 very minutely punctured, with coarse black hair at sides and 

 on apical part ; segments 2 to 4 having near their latero- 

 basal corners rather large, round, clearly defined patches of 

 dense snow-white tomentum ; first segment with a median 

 tubercle. 



Hab. Yallingup, near Cape Naturaliste, S.W. Australia, 

 4 ?, Sept. 14-Oct. 31, 1913 {R. E. Turner). British 

 Museum. 



A beautiful, species, related to H. conspicaus, Sm, Mr. 



