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Chrysops albicinctits, v. d. Wulp. This last is from New 

 Guinea, tlie former from Tasmania. 

 One new species is now described. 



Chrysops austi'alis, ? , sp. n. 



Type (female) and another from Herberton, Queensland, 

 3700 ft. (Dodd), in German Ent. Museum. 



Type (mule) and others from Kuranda and Herberton in 

 Mr. Wainwright's Coll., by the same collector. 



A species with the usual dark brown band on wing, 

 divided by a clear, distinct, narrow band from the pale 

 brown apex. Abdomen brownish, with a pale yellow band 

 on the second segment and a median yellow short stripe. 



Length 10 mm. 



Face honey-yellow, covered with grey tomentum, bare and 

 shining in the centre. Palpi reddish yellow. Antennce 

 long and slender, the first two joints honey-yellow, with 

 some black pubescence, about equal in length, the third 

 equal in length to the two joints combined, stouter, the 

 first division as long as the four succeeding ones, which are 

 equal in size ; the colour of this third joint is rather a darker 

 shade than the others, and some very fine pubescence is 

 apparent. Forehead black, Avitli grey tomentum ; the 

 frontal spot is represented by a large brownish tubercle, not 

 reaching the eyes ; forehead broad ; ocelli distinct. Fyes 

 bare. Thorax reddish brown, shoulders with golden-yellow 

 pubescence, which is continued in an oblique stripe on the 

 breast ; there is a tuft of similar hairs at base of wings. 

 Scutellum same colour as thorax. Abdumen blackish brown, 

 more reddish brown towards the apex ; the dark colour on 

 the second segment is represented as a half-circle, deeply 

 indented on its posterior border by the median yellowish 

 spot, all the anterior half of the segment and its sides being 

 pale yellow or whitish ; on the third and fourth segments 

 the median spots are long and narrow ; underside with the 

 base of abdomen pale yellow. Legs reddish yellow, with 

 black pubescence, the tarsi pale yellow, tibiai a little incras- 

 sate. Wings with the fore border and the transverse band 

 brown, and the whole apex paler brown, divided from the 

 band by a white narrow band running across from the base 

 of the fork of the third vein. 



Male identical. Palpi with long brown hairs. Eyes 



contiguous, the large facets pale brass-colour, with two dark 



spots and a curved dark band on the outer posterior border 



of each eye, the small facets brown. Thorax and scutellum 



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