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It is described as a black species uith brown wings. An- 

 tennce aud legs fulvous. 

 Type is apparently lost. 



Laphria ornatipennis , j\Iacquart. 



Type ( $ ) seen in Paris ]Museum, 12. 4. 11. 



Moustache of stout black bristles_, one or two yellow ones 

 near mouth. Third joint of antennce yellowish. Scutellum 

 with long, black, fine bristles. Ovipositor with long yellowish 

 hairs. No curved spines on fore tibiae. IVings yellowish, 

 with brown markings, situated at the apex, on discal, fourth 

 and fifth posterior, and upper part of second basal cell ; the 

 apical marking does not extend beyond the base of fork of 

 third vein, the second and third cells are only partially 

 filled with brown, and the anal cell only in its upper half. 



Macquart's figure of wing does not represent the brown 

 colour very correcth% 



In Brit, Mus. Coll. and Mr. French's Coll. male and 

 female from Queensland. 



A species easily recognized by the colouring of the icings 

 yellow and brown and by the depressed, narrow, metallic 

 bluish-black abdomen, with white lateral spots. 



Length 17 mm. 



The wings in these specimens are yellowish, the apex and 

 posterior border brownish, the dark colouring extending to 

 base of branch of third vein in a straight line from costal 

 border to the posterior border to base of first posterior cell, 

 continuing and occupying all the remaining posterior cells 

 and most of the anal cell ; base of wing nearly hyaline ; 

 the first posterior cell open, fourth closed, the small trans- 

 A'erse vein on basal third of discal cell. The scutellum in 

 male is armed with long bristles, yellow in the centre and 

 black at the sides ; in the female all are black. The ovi- 

 positor of female small, ending with long yellowish hairs. 

 The third anteunal joint in the female is wholly yellowish. 

 The moustache in the male consists of golden, soft, long 

 hairs. 



Laphria niveifacies, Macquart. 



h This species, placed under Maira in Kertesz's Cat., is more 

 probably a species of Laphria, judging from the description 

 of the moustache. 



The type is apparently lost, as it Avas not to be found in 

 the Paris Museum. 



Macquart describes it thus : — 



Yiolet black. Abdomen with white hairs. Moustache 

 black. Less violet. Wings half brown. 



