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a little black hair scattered over the surface; face bare, 
with white hair at sides; abdomen with broad but thin 
marginal white hair-bands at sides of second and third 
segments, and right across on fourth; fifth segment and 
apex with heavy black hair, but the fifth with glittering 
white hair at sides; venter with broad but thin bands of 
glittering white hair, the last tinged with ochreous ; head 
broad; blades of maxille smooth and polished; clypeus 
shining, with large punctures, more or less in rows; no 
clypeal keel, but front with a delicate keel, strongly elevated 
between antenne ; front dull and punctured, with the sides 
broadly and abruptly smooth and polished; antennz 
ordinary, scape closely punctured, flagellum with apical 
joint more or less rufous ; mesothorax shining, with fine 
well-separated punctures; scutellum flattened, with larger 
punctures; mesopieura nearly impunctate; area of meta- 
thorax triangular, with fine and indistinct cross-striz ; legs 
black, with pale hair, that of tarsi and outer side of tibiz 
brownish ; scopa on lower side of hind tibize long and clear 
white ; tegulz piceous. Wings brownish, stigma (which is 
large) and nervures dark brown ; marginal cell rounded at 
end; b.n. falling just short of t.-m., which is extremely 
oblique ; second s.m. small, narrowed above, receiving first 
r.n, at about end of its first third; third sm. large and 
long, receiving second r.n. a considerable distance from 
apex. Abdomen shining, with very minute inconspicuous 
punctures ; first segment polished, the others not entirely 
smooth ; pygidial plate large and broad, obtuse. 
6 .— Length about 8°5 mm. 
Slender ; face covered with shining white hair, very dense 
and silvery at sides; cheeks with very long white hair; 
frontal carina little developed ; front dull, with only narrow 
indistinct glittering bands along orbits; antenne slender, 
not very long for a male, black, flagellum obscure brown 
beneath ; scutellum flattened on disc, sparsely punctured ; 
mesothorax and scutellum with abundant long black hair, 
as also the vertex ; anterior femora above and (except base) 
in front, and their tibiz in front, ferruginous ; abdomen 
without bands on apices of segments, but pale hair at 
extreme base of fourth ; apical plate small, broadly rounded ; 
fourth and fifth yentral segments with broad suff hair-bands, 
that on fourth creamy-white, that on fifth dark fuscous, 
nearly black. Hind wings with a conspicuous black apical 
spot. 
Hab. Yallingup, $.W. Australia, middle of September to 
November, 1918,5 9,4 (RK. #. Turner ; British Museum). 
