270 ]Miss G. Illcavdo on the 



fairly long fine brownish-black hairs. Pruhoscis short. 

 Palpi large, almost as long as proboscis, the first joint short, 

 the scconil long, club-shaped, ^^•ith black hairs, thick towards 

 their apices, in colour similar to the face. Antemue somc- 

 A>hat paler and more yellow, the first two joints with long 

 black hairs, the third with short ones on every division on 

 outer side, the last divisions dusky in colour. Forehead very 

 wide and concave, the most striking characteristic of the 

 genus, same colour as face, with a very few black hairs, 

 slightly narrower at the vertex. Ocelli large and distinct. 

 Eyes bare. Thorax and abdomen Sudan-brown, the abdomen 

 rather daiker. Thorax with a round waxy-yellow spot on its 

 anterior angles, covered with some rcddi^h-ycllo\v tonicntum 

 and a very few black hairs ; traces of rufous-coloured h.iirs 

 on the posterior border. Scutellvm more yellow in colour. 

 Abdomen flat, with some appressed reddish-yellow pubes- 

 cence. Leys antique-brown, some long black hairs on coxie 

 and femora, elsewhere chiefly reddish yellow. IVings large, 

 longer than the abdomen, pale brown, tinged yellow on the 

 fore border ; all cross-veins shaded ; appendix, if present, 

 short; all posterior cells widely open. 



Male identical in colour. Face not tuberculous nor very 

 short, long brownish-black hairs below antennge on centre, 

 covered with greyish tomentum. Beard composed of sparse 

 Avhite hairs. Paipi slender, c\lindrical, the first joint short, 

 the second long, with dense short pubescence, reddish yellow, 

 not so long as the proboscis. The frontal tiiangle is very 

 small, the eyes joining almost their whole length. Ocelli 

 large, on a protuberant tubercle. Wings with the appendix 

 more marked than in females. Genital organs prominent 

 beyond the sixth segment. 



Demoplatus australis, ^ , sp. n. 



Male (type) from Katoomba, Blue ^Mts., 3400 ft., New 

 South Wales (Dudd), 1912, and another, both in German 

 Ent. ^Museum ; also another male from the same place in 

 Mr. Wainwright's Coll. 



A dark-colourt^d species, with brownish v.ings, darkest on 

 the fore border. Legs and antennae reddish yellow. 



Length 12 mm. ; proboscis li mm. 



Face brownish, Aviih greyish-yellow tomentum, somewhat 

 produced below the antennie, forming a large tubercle 

 covered with long black hairs, which are also present on the 

 cheeks. Beard silver-white. J^uijA a little more than half 

 the length of the proboscis, reddish-yellow, the first joint 



