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when viewed at a certain obliquity. Veins slightly yellowish. 

 Costal and two iirst longitudinal veins thick ; second longitudinal 

 A^ein gently arcuated exteriorly, meeting the costal immediately 

 beyond the apex of the wing ; third longitudinal particularly pale 

 and indistinct, anterior branch altogether wanting. (Description 

 drawn from dried specimen). 



Hah. — Elizabeth Bay (Skuse). January. 



b. Wings variegated. 



48. DiPLOSis Macleayi, sp.n, 



^. — Length of antennjB 0"060 inch ... 1 '54 millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-090x0 050 ... 2-27 x 1-27 



Size of body 0-070 x 0-020 ... 1-77 x 0-50 



Antennae nearly as long as the body ; joints sordid grey, on 

 yellowish-white pedicels half the length of the joints ; verticils 

 yellowish-white. Head dingy brown, with long yellowish hairs on 

 the vertex ; front pale. Palpi sordid grey. Thorax with three 

 brown longitudinal stripes, the intermediate one pale, cuneiform ; 

 the lateral ones not so long, indistinctly elliptical ; long-yellowish 

 hairs ; pleune pale brown. Halteres clothed with black hairs, the 

 root of the stalk and tip of the knob naked, whitish. Abdomen deep 

 reddish-brown, without bands, with yellowish hairs. Legs rather 

 long, slender. Coxae yellowish-brown. Femora sordid grey, the 

 tips yellow. Anterior tiVnse golden-yellow, middle and hind ones 

 black, the base with a slight ring of yellow. All the tarsi black 

 on the first, short joint ; the second joint golden-yellow with a 

 Itroad ring of black near the base and at the tip ; third and fourth 

 joints hoary when viewed in a certain light, tipped with a ring of 

 black. Wings pale yellowLsh, appearing of splendent colours when 

 viewed in an oblique directiou, with mottlings of a violet reflec- 

 tion. These violet markings prevail to such an extent as to leave 

 only very little of tlio pale ycillowish visil)le. A liand commencing 

 on the margin at uljout two-thirds of the distance from the base 

 to the tip of the wing, running almost vertically downwards to the 

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