BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1723 
with silvery scales ; metanotum brown, naked. Halteres ochre- 
yellow. Abdomen about twice the length of, but narrower than, 
the thorax, flat, deep metallic blue, except the first segment, the 
latter green with a yellow patch on each side ; fifth segment 
showing some golden-yellow laterally, sixth and eight segments 
ornamented with a strong tuft of golden hair laterally, the 
seventh with black tufts ; all the segments slightly bordered with 
golden hairs laterally ; the first to third and fifth to seventh 
segments golden-yellow beneath with a metallic blue longitudinal 
stripe down the centre, fourth entirely metallic blue, and the 
terminal one brilliant pale green. Coxse clothed with silvery 
scales. Femora and tibhe metallic violet, the former golden- 
yellow beneath. In the intermediate- and fore-legs (the hind legs 
wanting below the tibim in the specimen before me), the first joint 
of the tarsi white except at the base, and the second also except 
at the apex ; the rest metallic violet. Wings longer than the 
abdomen, with a pale brownish tint antei'iorly and along the fifth 
longitudinal vein, veins pale brown, cilia pale, and short ; weak 
reflections. Auxiliary vein joining the costa almost opposite but 
somewhat beyond the tip of the posterior branch of the fifth 
longitudinal ; sub-costal cross-vein distinct, situated about mid- 
way between the origin of the anterior branch of the fifth longi- 
tudinal vein and the origin of the second longitudinal ; fork of 
the latter very small, the tips of the branches slightly bent ante- 
riorly 3 sui)erniimerary cross-vein equal in length to the middle 
cross- vein ; posterior cross-vein more than twice the length of the 
latter, rather sinuose ; tip of the anterior branch of the fifth 
longitudinal vein joining the margin opposite the middle of the 
second posterior cell ; a very prominent wing-fold running close 
to the posterior side of the fifth longitudinal for the whole of its 
length and another on the anterior side in the anal cell. 
II ah. — Port Denison, Queensland (Masters). 
Ohn . — The above is taken from a single ^ specimen whose hind- 
legs are lost beyond tin; tibiie, and whose thorax is perhaps partly 
denuded. Tlnnc* is also a 9 specimen in tiie Macleay collection 
taken by .Mr. Masters about twenty years ago near Sydney ; it 
