ON A NEW RHYTIPHORA IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, MELBOURNE. 
sutural stripe, a narrow black stripe, a wide silvery stripe, a narrow 
black stripe, terminated at the apical fifth, a wide silvery stripe, 
a narrow black stripe conjoined near tip with another on the outer 
edge of a wide ochreous stripe, a wide silvery stripe, and then the 
narrow black margin ; the white stripes about the base are more 
or less stained with ochreous. Under surface with silvery pubes- 
cence marked with ochreous stripes (one at apex of each abdominal 
segment) and blotches, and black patches (a longitudinal one 
towards each side of metasternum, and a curved one — very narrow 
across middle — on each abdominal segment). Antennal joints 
white tipped with black, but the black increasing till at the seventh 
it covers half the surface, and the eleventh is white at the extreme 
base only. The black patches and stripes are due either to the 
surface being bare or to being clothed with very short black 
pubescence. 
