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two he described not being in the British Museum. A 

 specimen of supposed bicingulatus before me, from Smith's 

 collection, i^peraustralis. Smitli's descriptions are^ however, 

 sufficiently exact, and I have no doubt of my identifications. 

 ^Vhen I described H. leai as a distinct species I was misled 

 by the supposed bicingulatus from Smith's collection. Male 

 H leai shows the broad red plate, characteristic of the 

 hedleyi and tasmanice group, on the apex of abdomen. A 

 male leai was taken at Crovdon bv S. W. Fulton (Nat. Mus. 

 Vict. 156). 



Haiictus griseovittatus, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 7h ram. 



Black, robust, with dull white hair; tarsi reddish at apex, 

 sometimes legs dark reddish ; mandibles very obscurely 

 reddish subapically ; flagellum black or distinctly reddened 

 apically ; head broad ; clypeus and supraclypcal area 

 biiliiantly shining, with large punctures ; sides of face 

 glistening, but middle and upper part of front perfectly dull, 

 with exceedingly minute sculpture; a raised line running 

 downward from middle ocellus ; mesothorax shining, but 

 strongly and quite closely punctured ; scutellum with 

 minute irregular punctures ; area of metathorax semilunar, 

 very finely wrinkled except near the margin, -which is only 

 moderately shining ; sides of truncation not sharp or an- 

 gular. Legs with white hair, very pale yellowish or fulvous 

 on inner side of tarsi ; hind spur with a single stout oblique 

 tooth a little before the middle, and beyond this a very long 

 low lamina or keel ; tegulee piceous. Wings greyish hya- 

 line, stigma dark rufo-piceous, nervures sepia ; outer t.-e. 

 and r. n. much weakened ; first r. n. entering apical corner of 

 second s.m. or meeting second t.-c. Abdomen shining, very 

 minutely punctured ; bases of segments with bands of pale 

 greyish tomentum, broad and entire on third and fourth, 

 mainly at sides on second ; caudal rima pale greyish or 

 brownish ; venter with white hair, but no curled scopa. 



Hub. Brisbane, Queensland ; the type from Kelvin Grove, 

 Jan. 15, 1912 {H. Hacker; Queensl. Mus. 27) ; otiiers from 

 Suunybank, Sept. 12, 1911, and Logan Road, Sept. 18, 1911 

 [Hacker ; Queensl. ^lus. 4, 2G) ; also three from Mackay, 

 Queensland, March and April 1900 [Turner, 1079). 



A distinct species, rather like a small edition of H. reprce- 

 sentans^ but with quite different metathorax. 



