4 E. W. Ferguson: 



long moderately dense black hairs. Palpi very short.. 

 with second joint black below, reddish yellow above, clothed with 

 long black hairs, apex not pointed, with a rather deep concave 

 depression above, set somewhat obliquely. Antennae as in male. 

 Eyes rather widely separated; the forehead practically square, 

 clothed with dark brown tomentum in centre, bordered on each 

 side with yellow, set with black hairs ; ocelli on a definite raised 

 tubercle. Thorax and abdomen as in male. Legs and wings 

 coloured as* in male. 



Hab. :— Victoria, Fern Tree Gully (F. Spry, 10/12/04);. 

 Launching Place (G. Coghill, 21/1/08). 



Types in National Museum, Melbourne. 



The length given for the female is probably an under-esti- 

 mate, as the tip of the abdomen is bent to a considerable extent. 



This species differs widely from all others known to me, with 

 the exception of a species from the Blue Mountains, New South 

 Wales. This latter, a description of which is shortly to be pub- 

 lished by Mr. G. H. Hardy, agrees with P. flavip<fnnis in the 

 coloration of the wings, but differs in the thorax and legs. 



Erephopsis clelandi, n. sp. 



Allied to E. macro porum, and with similarly marked wings, 

 but differing in the palpi. 



2 Long: — 11 mm. . N 



Face and cheeks covered with brown tomentum with rather 

 Sparse black pubescence ; beard white ; palpi dark brown, second 

 joint short, broad, bluntly pointed, deeply concave on outer sur- 

 face ; antennae dark reddish brown, basal joints lighter, clothed 

 with grey tomentum and long black hairs. Forehead moderately 

 wide, narrowed to vertex, clothed with brown tomentum and 

 black pubescence, longer on vertex. Eyes with dense brown 

 hairs. 



Thorax, with four dark tomentose stripes separated by light 

 grey ones, the two inner dark stripes brown, the outer ones 

 black, clothed with semi-erect black pubescence, with straggly 

 tufts of long white hairs above wing roots ; shoulders grey with 

 long black hairs ; pleurae clothed with grey and brown tomentum, 

 with long mostly white hair tufts. Scutellum, reddish brown in 

 centre, black at sides, clothed with black pubescence. 



Abdomen yellowish brown with dark median spots on first 

 three segments, broader on other segments, clothed with dark 

 decumbent pubescence, sides with creamy pubescence. Venter 



