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A iiii'dium-si/cd miiforujly rcddish-ycllow species, with 

 uarrow hairy [)al[)i, rcdilisli legs, yeUow aiitennu;, and clear 

 wiii};s. 



Length 1 I mm. 



Tuhaniis sini'/uinarius, lii^'ot, iM(-'iii. Soc. Zoul. dc France, v. 



p. t;rr/(iH<j:i} [Atijiuius\. 



Ill Ihit. Mils. ColK females from S. Quecnshiiid {Dr. T. L. 

 Bancroft), lIMKS,.aiid from Hrisbane (//. Tryou), 1907. 



la -Mr. Waiiiwri^hl's Coll. a leiuale from S. (iueenslaiid. 

 In iMr. Froggatt's Coll. three females from Kiehinoud River, 

 N. IS. Wales, and from Tweed Kivrr. 



Ill (iermaii Eiit. Museum two feuiales from New South 

 AVales. 



1 have not seen the type, but the species is easily recog- 

 nized hy its large size and by its uniform reddish-brown 

 abdomen. J-.egs red. Antennie and [)al[)i reddish yellow. 



Jjength 18-1 'J mm. 



lace covered with yellowish tomentum, and with some 

 brown hairs in centre of face and ou cheeks, lieard white. 

 Palpi long, moderately stout, ending in an obtuse point, 

 yellow, with black pubescence. Aiitcnnui red, the first two 

 joints with black hairs, the third slender, with a small but 

 distinct tooth. iSubcalliis and furclicad same colour as face, 

 the latter almost parallel or slightly narrower at the vertex, 

 about six times as long as it is broad ; the frontal callus 

 reddish brown, large, oblong, not reaching the eyes, with a 

 stout lineal extension. Thorax reddish brown, w hen denuded 

 four black stripes appear ; some grey tomentum on dorsum, 

 anil the pubeseenee eon>ists of scattered pale yellow leeum- 

 bent hairs and some l)laek hairs. Scatellinn reddish brown, 

 fringed with yellowish hairs. Abdoincii reddish brown, 

 felightly darker at the apex ; pubescence on dorsum and at 

 sides black ; undcisidv paler red, with grey tomentum and 

 traces of yellow pubescence on the posterior borders of 

 segments. Leys unifonnly i"ed, the a[)iees of tarsi darker, 

 the pubeseenee on coxie white with grey t(jnientum, ou 

 femora yellow below, elsewhere black. // ///ys clouded more 

 or less with brown, lore border and stigma yellow, veius 

 yellowish. 



This species must be very marly allied to, if not identical 

 ■with, 'J'ubdnus nh/ro/jictus, Mae(|uart, the type of whieh was 

 reeordeil frinn India ; but as yet I have sein no specimens of 

 it Irom the Uiiental Kegiou or elsewhere (see Kieardo, 

 ' Kecords Imlian .Museum,' iv. no. vi. p. 210, I'Jll). 



