i) E. W. Ferguson: 



Abdomen shiny red with a median row of black spots, some- 

 times absent on third, and generally widening out on epical seg- 

 ments ; lateral margins with long black hair, partly creamy on 

 first and second segments, and forming a tuft of creamy hairs on 

 each side of apex. Venter reddish, with scanty creamy depressed 

 hairs. Legs, reddish brown, posterior tibiae darker than others, 

 femora black. Wings dark grey, yellow along costal cell ; basal 

 cells, discal cell and basal part of first posterior cell clear, hya- 

 line ; a dark brown band across transverse veins at base of discal 

 cell, and traces of a second at apex of discal cell, fading into 

 grey of apex, no appendix; first posterior cell closed or feebly 

 open. 



Hab. : — New South Wales, Meldrum (near Armidale) (J. 

 Raven, 28/12/17). 



Compared with this species, E. contigua differs in the broader 

 lighter palpi, in the lighter coloured basal antennal joints, in 

 the general clothing much more yellowish, in the darker abdo- 

 men, in the lighter legs and in the much more heavily marked 

 wings. 



The coloration of the second antennal joint is variable; it .is 

 perhaps more usually black than yellowish. 



Type presented to Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Erkfhopsis rufoni«er, n. sp. 



Allied to E. lasiophthalma, but with median abdominal spots 

 united to form a continuous vitta on first three segments and 

 expanding basally on other segments. 

 ? Long: — 12 mm. 



Face and cheeks black with rather sparse grey tomentum and 

 long grey pubescent hairs intermingled with black ones ; beard 

 dense creamy; palpi with second joint rather short, moderately 

 dilated, pointed, strongly concave on outer surface, reddish yel- 

 low with intermingled grey and black hairs along upper and' 

 lower margins; antennae reddish, the third joint somewhat 

 darker than first arid second, which bear long black hairs! Fore- 

 head distinctly convergent towards vertex, black with brownish 

 tomentum and long black hairs. Eyes, densely hairy. Thorax 

 dull black, subnitid where denuded, covered with dark brown 

 tomentum, with long semi-erect black hairs, and with fine de- 

 cumbent creamy hairs along anterior portion and forming feeble 

 hair tufts above wing roots ; shoulders with black hair tufts r 

 sides with very dense creamy hair tufts ; scutellum black with 

 sparse creamy hairs on apical margin. 



