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in the Australian specimens. The whole thorax is unadorned, 

 of an uniform dark brown, clothed with uniformly-scattered 

 reddish-brown scales, which are bronzy under the two-third 

 power. 



I cannot see any reason for separating these New Guinea 

 specimens as a distinct species as there are only colour differences. 

 The male is described here for the first time. 



$ . Head all black scaled, with the lateral pale areas only. 

 Thorax and abdomen as in the J . 



Palpi rather longer than the proboscis, very thin, black, no 

 hair-tufts, resembling those of Desvoidya. Apical segment of 

 palpi slightly shorter than the penultimate segment. 



Wings long, fork-cells short, first sub-marginal cell longer 

 and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base slightly 

 nearer the apex of the wing than that of the second posterior, 

 its stem as long as the cell ; stem of the second posterior longer 

 than the cell ; supernumerary and mid cross-veins almost in one 

 straight line, the posterior about its own length distant from 

 the mid. 



Legs as in the 9 \ f° re ungues unequal, the larger nearly 

 twice as long as the smaller, both uniserrated, the serration of 

 the smaller close to the base ; mid ungues equal and uniserrated ; 

 hind equal and simple. 



Length. — 4 to 4 * 5 mm. 



Habitat.— New Guinea (Biro, 1900). 



Observations. — The $ very closely resembles the $ of Des- 

 voidya, but the absence of flat scutellar scales at once separates 

 it. There are only three males in the series one of which I have 

 made preparations of in balsam. The type is in the collection 

 of the National Museum of Hungary. 



Genus LUDLOWIA. nov, gen. 



Head clothed with flat scales all over, some upright forked 

 scales behind. Palpi long in male, one large swollen apical 

 segment and a long thin penultimate one; antennae plumose 

 in <J. 



Thorax and scutellum clothed with long narrow-curved scales. 

 Fork-cells in $ small; first long vein some distance from the 

 costal vein but curved upwards towards the end and then 



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