
598 RECORDS OF THE S,A, MUSEUM 
richmondiana (Skuse), known from Queensland and northern New South Wales. 
No species had been recorded previously from New Guinea eastward of the longi- 
tude of Hollandia (Etumboldt Bay), so the oeeurrence of four species in north- 
east New Guinea, as herewith recorded, is somewhat noteworthy, 
Kertész and all later writers have credited the subgenus Dapanoptera to 
Westwood, 1881, but it is now evident that this is incorrect and that the group 
was first defined by Osten Sacken, It appears that about 1880 Westwood 
submitted a specimen of this subgenus to Osten Sacken for his opinion and the 
latter’s notes and diseussion for forthcoming definition of the new group were 
gubmitied to Westwood, who incorporated them in his 1881 paper, but clearly 
credited the subgenus to Osten Sacken. The latter’s own firs( definition of 
Dapanoptera did not appear until 1887 (Berlin. Entomol, Zeitsehr., 31: 179). 
A KEY TO THE PAPUAN SPECIES OF DAPANOPTERA. 
1. Wings brown at base and apex, with a complete yellow band at near mid- 
length .. ah 4 a : xt Pr: - Hn . 2 
Wings without a central yellow band that completely erosses the disk .. 6 
2, Wing apex broadly dark brown or black so the white stigmal spot is at near 
midlength of the darkening .. ae - 4 . ast ei . 8 
Wing apex nore narrowly darkened so the white stigmal spot is at or close 
to its innerimargin.. = =: a's ot ar Ly es 
8, Thorax grey, the praeseutum before the suture with two dull black longitu- 
dinal stripes; halteres white; femora chiefly yellow, the tips darkened, (New 
Guinea Thimboldt Bay, north-cast New Guinea. ) 
meijercane Alexander (pulehra de Meijere, preoce.) 
Thorax dark reddish brown to almost black; halteres with stem black, knob 
pale yellow; legs entirely black, (New Guinea; Humboldt Bay.) 
carolinw Edwards 
4. Abdomen with base and apex blackened, the intermediate segments yellow, 
(New Guinea: Manokwari.) .. a be. nn latifascia (Walker) 
Abdomen black, without yellow pattern = .. n. a. a —+y -O 
Halteres entirely black; basal dark band of wing broad. (Mysol; New 
Guinea: Manokwati) .. i. ; ~ ate auroatra (Walker) 
Halteres with whitened knobs; basal dark band of wing narrower (apical 
wing band slightly invading cell 1st Ma; m-cw at midlength of cell 1st My). 
(South-west New Guinea: Noord River.) .. fascipennis (de Meijere) 
Wings with white spots additional to the sigmal one; supernumerary ¢ross- 
vein far beyond the outer end of cell 2st My, only about twice its length from 
the apieal border : +; .. oa ro . be be OU? 
Winys with only the white stigmal spot; supernumerary eross-vein close to 
the outer end of cell 1sf Mo, usually only about its own length beyond sa 
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