new or little-knowti Tiiuili'Ije. 1")9 



Generally similar to C. filli/ardi, Alex., differing princi- 

 pally ill tiie structure of the antennae and the coloration of 

 the abdominal tergites. 



Fiist antennal segment orange, the remaining segments 

 dark brown; flagellar segments 1 to 4 broadly pyiiform, 

 decreasing in size from the first to the fourth ; segments 

 beyond the fourth cylindrical and provided uitii very long 

 verticils. 



Mesouotum and pleura with orange stripes. Legs black. 

 Wings with a strong yellowish tinge, more infuscated on 

 the distal half, the centres of cells M, Cui, and \st A paler. 



Abdominal tergites black, only the eigiith and ninth 

 segments orange. First tergite with a large, triangular, 

 w hite area on each side ; second tergite black, unmarked 

 e.vccpt for a large, elongate, transverse, white area on either 

 side, only narrowly separated on the median line ; tergite 

 3 black with a small, rounded, white spot near tiie 

 lateral margin and an even smaller pair lying more cephalad 

 and closer to the median line; tergite -1 with only the 

 rounded lateral spots ; tergite 5 with the lateral spots slightly 

 larger, and in addition with two much larger white areas 

 closer to the median line, these latter areas larger than the 

 black space separating tiiem ; tergites 6 and 7 black with 

 large and conspicuous white lateral spots ; segment 8 orange ; 

 segment 9 and the ovipositor more castaneous. Sternites 

 orange, the lateral margins narrowly but conspicuously 

 blackened. 



Ha/j. Victoria. 



Hulotjjpe, ? , labelled " F. N. Gully, 12.4. 1909." 



Type in the collection of the British IMuseum (Natural 

 History) from the White Collection, No. 1917. 104. 



Mr. Edwards writes that Brunetti has two additional 

 females of this species from Monbulk, Victoria. 



The genus Chjtocosmus includes the most magnificent 

 crane-liii-s so far discovered. The five known species may 

 be separated by the accompanying key : — 



1. Stripes of tbo niesonotal prsescutum black . 2. 

 .Stripes of the mesouotal prtescutum orauge . .3. 



2. Basal three rtapellar sefrments subpyriforni ; 



abdomen black, tergites 2-4 bright 



yellow. (North Queensland.) lichtwanlti, Kied. 



Basal seven flagellar segments cordiform ; 

 abdomen black, the basal half of tergite 

 2 orange. (New Soath Wales.) skusei, Alex. 



3. Prolhorax, mesouotal scutelliim, and post- 



notuui black ; thoracic pkura black, 



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