152 ]MisS G. Ricardo — A Revision of 



Macquart described his speeies thus : — Violet. Moustaehe 

 and beard golden-coloured. Legs with yellow hairs. Wings 

 half brown and half hyaline. 



Length 6^ lines. ^ . 



Related to L. (enea. Palpi black, with black hairs. Face 

 and moustache golden-coloured, with long black bristles. 

 Forehead with grey tomentum. Antennse black, tlie first 

 joint w ith yellow hairs and black ones below. Thorax with 

 shoulders and sides golden tomentose. Abdomen without 

 spots or segmentations. Legs black, with violet reflections ; 

 femora and tibiae with long yellow hairs. Wings : the ante- 

 rior half hyaline, posterior half blackish brown ; neuration 

 as in L. (enea. 



From Java, my collection (Suppl. iii. p. 182). 



Male has been described. A female is placed with it, 

 "which differs as follows : — Posterior femora less incrassate ; 

 tibise with much fewer long hairs. Wings brownish, a little 

 paler towards the base. The first transverse vein is situated 

 on the third instead of the quarter of the discal cell. It 

 comes from New South Wales, whilst the male is described 

 from Java (Suppl. iv. p. 375). 



The /ace in Walker's species is bright gold(m yellow, with 

 the same coloured hairs above tubercle, which latter is 

 blackish- with grey tomentum ; the moustache composed of 

 eight long black bristles, the golden-yellow hairs intermixed, 

 "witli them ; the second, third, and fourth segments of abdo- 

 men have traces of white spots, and underside has white 

 segmentations. JVinys clear at base and on fore border as 

 far as stigma ; elsewhere brownish. 



Length 17 mm. 



The other specimens vary somewhat in colouring of iving ; 

 one specimen from Amboyua has them entirely hyaline and 

 they vary in size from 12-22 mm. 



Maira gloriosa, Walker. 



Proc. Lirm. Soc. London, iii. p. 84 [Zap/iria'] (1859). 



Maira kolha-i, v. d. Wulp, necDol. Tijd. v. Entom. (2)vii. (xv.) p. 201 



(1872). 

 ? Maira spectabilix, Schiner (nee Gu^rin), Verli. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 



xvii. p. 381 (1867). 



Type ( ? ) from Aru Island and two males from same 

 locality, either of which may be the type. 



A specimen from Key Island is labelled "gloriosa," but 

 as the abdomen is covered with short golden pubescence, as 

 in M. paradisiaca, Wlk., I conclude the labels have got 

 transposed. The three typical specimens have the abdomen 

 bare^ shining, purple and green metallic. 



