168 AUSTRALIAN BLEPIIAROCERIDAE, 



Thorax velvety black, with two patches of slight greyish pubescence oh 

 either side of the mesonotum and a touch of brown just above the wing's; scutel- 

 lum black, convexly rounded. 



Legs : — Foreleg's rather long, middle legs shorter, hindlegs very long. Coxae 

 and trochanters short, brownish ; femora, tibiae and tarsi long, the femora very 

 slightly enlarged distally, brownish at base shading to blackish distally, tibiae 

 and tarsi brownish. Measurements as follows : — 



Foreleg: — Femur 1.5, tibia 2, tarsus 2.8 mm. 



Middle leg : — Femur 1.5, tibia 1.5, tarsus 1.7 mm. 



Hind leg: — Femur 3.4, tibia 3.4, tarsus 4 mm. 



Fore and middle tibiae and tarsi very narrow cylindrical; those of hind leg 

 distinctly broader, with segments 2-4 of tarsus somewhat fusiform, 5 slender 

 (Plate xlv., fig. 6, b). Hind tibia with two small slender black spurs (Plate xlv.. 

 fig. 5, b ) , one a little shorter than the other. Order of length of segments of 

 hind tarsus, 1, 2, 3, 5, 4; no spines present, and only very minute soft hairs. 

 Tarsal claim (Plate xlv., fig. 7, b.) curved, sharply pointed, the inner side carrying 

 no teeth, but convexly curved and having a series of fine, closely set hairs along 

 its middle third ; empodium curved, subtriangular, about two-fifths as long as 

 claw. 



Wings: — Forewing (Text fig. 1, b) subhyaline, slightly infuscated all over; 

 venation black except Rs and M, which are brownish. C and Ri stout, forming 

 a strong anterior border to the wing. Venation almost exactly the same as in 

 the genotype N. hudsom Lamb, the only differences being that 1A fails to reach 

 the wing-margin and 2A passes well beyond the little chitinous patch on the 

 axillary lobe. (N.B. The venation of the pedicel of the wing of V. hudsoni, 

 as given by Lamb in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xlv., 1913, p. 72, fig. 4, is incorrect; 

 it should more closely resemble that shown in my Text-fig. 1, b). At the point 

 A' there is a slight kink showing where M2 originally came off frosi Mi + 2. The 

 point ./ indicates the secondary attachment of M* to Cm by means of the cross- 

 vein m-eu, the original basal piece of M3 + 4 having become obsolete (cf. Eduurd- 

 sina. Text-fig. 1. «)• Halteres 1 mm. long, with swollen brownish base, blackish 

 pedicel, and blackish subtriangular club. 



Abdomen slender cylindrical, hairless, velvety black with slight brownish- 

 grey pubescence; no markings. Hypopygium upturned, shaped as shown in 

 Text-fig. 5, a, b, the superior processes and forceps black, with pale hairs. 



Text-fig. 5: — Neocwrupira nichokoni n.sp. a, Hypopygium of c?, dorsal view. 

 b, the same, lateral view (x 511). 



