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coxae) are yellowish-hoary here ; they, as well as the sides of 

 the head, those of the abdomen, and the legs, are clothed with 

 long, soft, erect rufous hair , especially long on the legs (the 

 specimen being a male); the bristles of the mystax and the 

 single macrochetae on the sides of the abdominal segments^ 

 are all rufous. The wings have a yellowish tinge ; the distal 

 two thirds of them are brownish ; this color occupies a consi- 

 derable portion of the anal and axillary cells, but does not in- 

 vade the two basal cells. 



Hob. Korido, N. Guinea (Beccari); a single male. 



NB. A single specimen of this species (Bouro, Wallace) exists 

 in the Br. Mus. under the same name elysiaca, which I have, 

 for this reason, adopted. Laphria paradisiaca Wk. 1. c. Ill, 128 

 is very like this species, but the legs are metallic blue , with 

 long, whitish hairs, the thick pollen on pleurae and coxae is 

 also whitish, the head is clothed behind with soft, whitish hair, 

 the abdomen is, comparatively a little less broad. 



Wlaira gloriosa Walk., J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Ill, 84 ! (Aru). 



Syn. M.aira Klollari (not Dolesch.) v. d. Wulp, Tijdsclir. v. Ent. 1872 ! 



One 9 ; Fly River, N. Guinea {L. M. D'Alhertis, 1876-77). 



M.^ V. d. Wulp's specimen , which I saw in Leiden , agrees 

 with mine ; the pubescence of its face is perhaps a little more 

 whitish. A type of Laphria Kollari Dolesch., which I saw in 

 Vienna is an altogether different species ; it as no appressed 

 rufous pubescence on the thorax ; nor is this pubescence men- 

 tioned in Doleschall's description. That Maira Kollari Dol. is 

 the same species as M. spectabiliSj as Schiner contends, I do not 

 think. I believe that M.'^ v. d. Wulp is right in uniting L. socia 

 Wk. and consohrina Wk. with M. gloriosa (his M. Kollari). I 

 preferred the name gloriosa, because the specimen in the Br. 

 Mus. came nearest to mine ; the other two, I did not compare 

 carefully. 



