the AsilidiL' of Australasia. o87 



jjemis fomuk'd by him in 181-0 three years earlier, and i'roiu 

 tlie description of B. vic/oritc there is no doubt Kodcr was 

 rcdescribinj; a specimen of C. feaestrata. 



Type in Paris Museum seen by me, a male. 



A small black species with yellow bands on the second, 

 third, sixtli, and seventh segments of the club-shapeil 

 ab (lumen. 



Fit/ c<? broad, with yellowish-grey tomentum at sides, leaving 

 a black stri[)e in the centre. ^Moustache of yellow hairs. 

 Antenme reddish (not black, as Maequart says) ; the third 

 joint long, with indistinct style and minute spine. Head 

 excised behind a little, with black incurved hairs. Leys 

 long and slender, black ; apical half of femora red ; tibite red, 

 black at apices, bristles white and black. Wings brownish, 

 all posterior cells open. There are no signs of stripes on 

 the thora.r, as given in ^lacquart's figure of this insect, 

 Scutellum is red with Avhitish hairs. The curved spine on 

 the fore tibia3 is present, in spite of Macquart describing it 

 as absent. 



His description is as follows :— 



Black. Abdomen white at apex, segments 2 and 3 with 

 red margins. Legs red. Wings brown with clear spaces. 



Length 3 lines, i^ . Face shining black; moustache white, 

 Forehead and anteunse black. Thorax with two small indis- 

 tinct grey tomentose stripes. Abdomen shining ; posterior 

 border of second and third segments fawn-coloured ; sixth 

 and seventh yellowish white ou posterior borders. Legs 

 fawn-coloured ; coxae black, femora on anterior half black ; 

 fore legs with no spines at apex (this is an error) ; tarsi 

 black ; first joint of posterior pair fawn-coloured, black at 

 apex. Wings a little brownish, diseal cell and base of first 

 posterior white ; base of wing elear. 



From Tasmania, 



Drachyrrhopola macidata, Roder, 



Described as from New South Wales, 



Length, S 15 mm,, ? 20 mm, 



cJ . AntenncB golden yellow. Face and moustache yellow. 

 Thorax golden yellow with black stripes. Scutellum ochra- 

 ceous. Abdomen club-shaped, ochre-yellow, the first segment 

 somewhat dark, second one with two separated black spots^, 

 which are also present on the third, the fourth Mholly 

 black, the fifth black at sides. Legs ochre-yellow. Wings 

 tinged golden yellow at base on fore border, darker toward^ 

 apex, hyaline on posterior border. All cells open. 



The female has the wings more golden yellow, 



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