Asiliihe of Australia. Gl 



armed with fairly numerous black bristles : tarsi with stout 

 black bristles. Wings as long as the abdomen, clear, pale 

 yellowish at the extreme base ; veins brown, the first vein 

 from the discal cell bulges moderately into the first posterior 

 cell ; the small transverse vein is on the apical third of 

 discal eell ; fourth posterior cell open but very narrow at the 

 border, anal cell the same. 



Lapheixje. 

 JSTusa queenslandi, £ , sp. n. 



Type (male) from Stannary Hills, N. Queensland, circa 

 3000 Eeet {Dr. T. L. Bancroft), 1909, 145. 



The only species of this genus recorded from Australia is 

 N. tectamutj Wlk., a large species distinguished by the grey 

 hairs at base of abdomen. This is a blue-black shining 

 species considerably smaller, and the abdomen is bare. L 

 with white and black pubescence. 



Length 1G mm. 



Face black, with white tomentum at sides. Moustache 

 consists of stout black bristles, with long white hairs below 

 and white hairs at sides of face. Palpi black, with some 

 short reddish hairs at apex. Antennce blackish brown, the 

 first two joints with black hairs below and a strong black 

 bristle on underside of the second joint. Forehead with black 

 bristles on the central tubercle and whitish hairs at sides and 

 round head, and one black bristle each side. Prothora.v 

 armed with a circlet of black bristles. Thorax with some 

 sparse black pubescence, shoulders greyish white. Sculellum 

 the same, with a fringe of weak black bristles on its poste- 

 rior border. Abdomen with a white spot at the side of the 

 second, third, and fourth segments, two stout black bristles 

 on side of second segment, and one on nearly all the remaining 

 segments, with black hairs at sides and white ones on the 

 pale spots. Genitalia prominent, with black and yellow 

 hairs. Legs blackish, with black pubescence, the femora 

 with some white hairs, the tibiae with chiefly white hairs and 

 with black bristles, the tarsi armed with numerous strong 

 black bristles. Wings brownish, paler on posterior border, 

 the first posterior cell closed near the border, fourth and anal 

 cell also closed. 



A female or male from Eidswold, Queensland, though 

 much smaller (only measuring 12 mm.), appears to be i leu- 

 tical with this male, though the white pubescence on the legs 



