172 Mr. R. E. Turner on the 



■\vltli long fulvous pubescence. Thorax and median segment 

 coarsely punctured and clothed with fulvous pubescence, the 

 pubescence beneath grey ; a large, smooth, shining area on 

 the disc o£ the mesonotum narrowly continued to the posterior 

 margin ; the middle of the scutellum broadly smooth ; the 

 median segment shorter than the postscutellum and bluntly 

 produced on the middle o£ the apical margin. Abdomen 

 very sparsely punctured, the sides of the segments thinly 

 clothed with long grey hairs ; segments 2-5 with an apical 

 fringe of long golden hairs, shorter and paler on the ventral 

 surface. Apical segment longitudinally rugose, with a few 

 very short, stiff, golden hairs. 



Black ; the second, third, and fourth dorsal segments with 

 a yellow apical band ; a large orange-yellow spot on each side 

 of the second and third dorsal segments, sometimes joining in 

 the middle; the spines of the tarsi feriuginous, the pubescence 

 on the legs grey. Wings flavo-hyaline, flushed with purple 

 at the apex of the fore wings ; nervures ferruginous. 



Length 29-35 mm. 



(J . C'lypeus almost transverse at the apex, very slightly 

 rounded. Antenna? very stout, the eight apical joints strongly 

 arcuate beneath ; head and thorax punctured, a small smooth 

 area on the disc of the mesonotum, the pubescence long, 

 close and grey, light fulvous on the mesonotum ; the median 

 segment shorter than the postscutellum, with an obscure 

 longitudinal carina. Abdomen shallowly and not very closely 

 punctured, the punctures large; the fourth segment finely 

 and closely punctured at the base, the apex of the seventh 

 segment smooth. 



Black; the clypeus, a minute spot on the postscutellum, 

 a broad tiansverse band emarginate anteriorly in the middle 

 close to the apex of the second and third dorsal abdominal 

 segments, a transverse band broadest in the middle on the 

 fourth and filth segments, a narrow transverse band inter- 

 rupted in the middle on ventral segments 2-5, and a spot 

 on each side of the second and third ventral segments dull 

 yellow; tegulae testaceous brown. Wings flavo-hyaline; 

 liervures ferruginous. Some specimens have a yellow band 

 on the first segment. The first abdominal segment is broad. 

 The third cubital cell is strongly narrowed on the cubital 

 nervure, more strongly in the male than in the female. 



Length 24 mm. 



Hab. Perth, W.A. (//. M. Giles), 8 ?, 3 J; Sydney, 

 K.S.^V. {Froggatt), 1 ? . 



This species seems to have been confused with australensis , 

 Sauss., which 1 take to be the male oi'J/avidvla. Sn)., and not 



