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no median spots are visible. Legs black, knees reddish ; the 

 coxte covered with grey tomentuni and with long white hairs ; 

 pubescence ebe where black. Wings clear, stigma very pale 

 yellow, veins brown ; shore appendix present. 



Tabaiius froggatti^ sp. n. 



Type (female) from south coast, Xew South Wales, 

 5. 3. 1910, in Mr. Froggatt's Ctdl. 



A black species with very narrow pale segmentations and 

 some median spots on abdomen, distinguished by the greater 

 narrowness of the forehead at the vertex than anteriorly, as 

 is usual, and by the long hairs on face and palpi. Wings 

 shaded on the cross-veins. 



Length 13 mm. 



Face covered with grey tomentum and with long black 

 hairs in the centre and on cheeks at sides ; a few long white 

 hairs appear on the fovese and continue round the base of 

 face above the beard, which is black with a few white hairs 

 intermixed below. Palpi dull reddish yellow, clothed with 

 long black hairs, thickest and longest at the base, which is a 

 little stout, the palpus ending in a long point, so that the 

 palpi are long and slender. Antennce black, the first joint 

 cylindrical, the second round, not half the length of the 

 first; both with some grey tomentum, and with long black 

 hairs ; the third joint short with no distinct tooth, the first 

 division broad, once and a half longer than the last divisions, 

 which are very narrow. Subcallus shining brown, but 

 covered with ashy-grey tomentum almost entirely. Fore- 

 head twice as wide anteriorly as it is at vertex ; the frontal 

 callus shining brown as the subcallus, taking up the whole 

 width of forehead and furnished with a short stout extension, 

 the remainder of the forehead covered with yellowish-grey 

 tomentum and with long black pubescence ; vertex and 

 hind part of head with similar pubescence. Eyes thickly 

 covered with pale hairs. Thorax shining black, with some 

 short, white, appressed pubescence and long black hairs 

 at shoulders and on sides. Scutellum similar. Abdomen 

 shilling blackish brown, the segmentations very narrowly 

 grey tomentose and with short white pubescence ; a grey 

 tomentose median spot is visible on the second segment and 

 a smaller one on the third, dorsum with black pubescence 

 and some yellowish-grey tomentum ; underside more choco- 

 late-brown, and devoid of pubescence. Legs blackish, the 

 knees and basal third of fore tibise yellowish red, the knees 



