BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 707 



black. Eyes contiguous above. Palpi yellow. Thorax reddish- 

 brown, levigate, with three rather indistinct longitudinal double 

 rows of very short Vjrownish hairs extending nearly to the 

 scutellum, not coalescent ; also a few short hairs between the 

 origin of the wings and the humeri ; scutellum with some short 

 brownish hairs and a few long brown setae. Halteres light 

 reddish-brown, with a few veiy short hairs, the base of the stem 

 yellowish. Abdomen umber-brown on the dorsal segments, pale 

 between the segments and underneath, rather densely clothed 

 with a moderately long pubescence ; lamellae of the ovipositor 

 small, elongate. Coxse honey-yellow, the femora more ochraceous ; 

 tibiae and base of the metatarsal joint dusky pitch-brown, the 

 remainder black. In the fore-legs the tarsi nearly 5 longer than 

 the tibia? ; in the intermediate-legs the tibiae and tarsi of about 

 equal length ; in the hind-legs the tibiae a little longer than the 

 tarsi. Spurs about the length of the third tarsal joint. First 

 joint of the tarsi in the fore- and intermediate-legs rather more 

 than twice the length of the second, in the hind-legs 2^ times the 

 length ; second joint ^- longer than the third and somewhat longer 

 than the fourth and fittli together ; third joint about ^ longei- 

 than the fourth ; fourth and fifth joints of almost equal length. 

 Wings pellucid, very pale smoky brown, with dusky brown veins ; 

 brilliant margaritaceous reflections. First longitudinal vein 

 reaching the costa a short distance before the base of the fork ; 

 cross-vein distinct ; petiole very pale, shorter than the anterior 

 branch of the fork ; both branches fringed with very short, stiff, 

 brown hairs, running almost parallel to one another for the 

 greater part of their length, and slightly divergent at the tips ; 

 the posterior branch almost as much arcuated at the base as the 

 anterior one. f(/ rather more than twice the length of gh ; kl 

 equal to Im. 



Hob. — Woronora (Masters and Skuse). October, 

 C. Cross-vein situated beyond the middle of the first longitudinal 

 vein. 



a. Tip of the second longitudinal vein nearer the apex oj the loing 

 than the tip of the posterior branch of the fork. 

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