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with pale liair; scale-like hair peppered over the last two 

 Sf^iiu'iita fulvous. 



//<///. Cooktown, Qticeiislaiiil, Oct. 1002 {Gilbert Turner). 

 Brilish Mudeuin. 



Me<jachUe oculipesj sp. ii. 



(S . — Length about 10 mm. 



IJhick, parallol-sitleil, rather narrow ; hair of head and 

 thorax whiio except on the broad vertex, where it is fulvon3 ; 

 iiead broad; eyes green, stained with blood-red; abundant 

 liair of face greyish white ; lower edge of clypeus with two 

 small teeth; mandibles black, tridenfate; vertex and front 

 coarsely granular or lugnso-punctate ; scapo short, entirely 

 bright ferruginous; flagelluin long and slender, black above, 

 ferruginous beneath except the last three joints ; mesothorax 

 and scutellum densely rugoi^o-punctate ; little tufts of white 

 hair on tul ercles and posterior angles of mesothorax, but not 

 forming conspicuous spots ; hair of cheeks beneath abundant 

 and })ure white; teguliu brown. Wings hyaline ; a fuscous 

 ."treak in marginal cell. Anterior coxie apparently spined 

 (the insect is carded, and tiiey are hard to see) ; anterior 

 femora red iu fiont and behind, with much white hair; their 

 tibise entirely bright red ; their tarsi clear red, basally with 

 Kmg reddish (the first two or three black) hairs behind, and 

 beyond that with a very large oval lobe, which is white, with 

 a guy centre, simulating an eye ; the grey centre is, of 

 course, represented by a black spot beneath (compare J/, euca- 

 li/}>li) ; middle femora red in front ; their tibiai thick, red, 

 with a broad black band behind ; their tarsi very thick, 

 ])lack, except the apex of the last joint, with the claws ; hind 

 legs black, the tarsi thick ; hind spurs jjiceous. Abdomen 

 shining, strongly punctured, base with loose white hair ; 

 hind margins of first three segments with white hair-bands ; 

 black parts (especially fuurth segment) with short black hair; 

 apical segments with silvery hair, not dense; margin of sixth 

 segment truncate. 



Known by the structure ot the front legs and the end of 

 the abdomen without red. The colour of the middle Uhix, 

 scape, &c. readily separate it from M. vebtitor, CkU., li'ncatipeSy 

 Ckll., and latipis^ Sm. 



Hub. Townsville, Queensland, 12. 2. 03 (F. P. JJodd). 

 Turntr C\)llection ; British Museum. 



