Records of Beta . 3C5 



red in life, in the dry state retldisli grey; facial quadrangle 

 much longer than broad, little narrowed below ; face densely 

 covered with fulvou3 hair; mandibles black; labial pal[)i 

 with first joint robust and dark, the others pallid ; checks 

 broad, with much white hair Indow ; antonnaj black, flagellum 

 long; vortex broail, with dark fuscous hair; punctures of 

 vertex small and dense on each side of ocelli, larger and 

 sparser (the shining surface showing) posteriorly ; meso- 

 tliorax densely and coarsely punctured ; hair of thorax white, 

 without any yellow tint, shining silvery on scutellum, but 

 black or dark fuscous on anterior middle of me^othorax ; 

 tegulge piceous. Wings strongly dusky, upper half of mar- 

 ginal cell fuliginous. -Legs black, with white hair ; anterior 

 tarsi simple, hair on inner side of tarsi yellowish ; anterior 

 cox« simple, very hairy ; hind spurs black. Abdomen 

 shining, with very large distinct punctures; hair short and 

 black, loose and white at base of first segment ; a dense 

 triangular patch of pure white liair at each side of first 

 segment (conipare M. gilbertiella) ; no hair-bands ; middle of 

 sixth segment with appressed silky-white hair, and a little of 

 the same on fifth ; margin of sixth very obtusely bilobed, 

 the actual margin of sixth (beneath) has a pair of angular 

 projections; last ventral with a broad whitish margin. 



Uah. Mackay, Queensland (Turner). British Museum. 

 The type is marked 10 a, and was taken in Sept. 1900. 

 Others were taken in October 1901. 



Easily known from M. austeni, Ckll., by the large distinct 

 punctures of the abdomen. 



The following table separates several males in which the 

 apex of the aijdomen is not red (although in lineadpes there 

 is a pale fulvous hair-patch) : — 



Anterior tarsi greatly modified 1. 



Anterior tarsi Bimple ; sixth abdominal segment 



not spined 4. 



1. Middle tibiee bright red in front; scape bright red. oculipet, Ckll 

 Middle tibiea dark 2. 



2. Sixth abdominal segment with a median sharp 



point veatttor, Ckll. 



Sixtn segment without such a point 3. 



3. Sixth segment with two sharp teeth lineatipes, Ckll. 



Sixth segment without such teeth latives, Sm. 



4. Abdomen with large distinct punctures tencetcauda, Ckll. 



Abdomen with small indistinct punctures aiuteni, Ckll. 



