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is also a very questionable practice to call a 
specimen of the second sex "allotype,” with- 
out publishing an appropriate description. 
The author has examined 1 cf, 1924, Eids- 
vold, Queensland (Bancroft), and females 
from the following localities in Queensland: 
2 $ $ , Eidsvold; 1 $ , 4.iv.l924, 1 9 , ii.1923, 
Eidsvold; 1 $ , 7.xi.l926, Lake Barrine (Gold- 
finch); 1 $, 1916, Tambourine; 1 9, x - 
iv.1930, Eidsvold (T. L. Bancroft). 
The female (hitherto unrecorded) is very 
similar to the male, but the central stripe of 
the abdomen is really black (in the male very 
often the black hairs only camouflage the 
yellow-red colour of the abdomen). 
Both sexes of this species have anterior 
femora of a very peculiar colour pattern: on 
the underside and on the sides they are yellow, 
excepting for a small black apical area, but 
the upperside is black (Fig. 6a); in other 
species the dividing line of the areas of black 
and yellow colour is transverse to the long 
axis of the femur. 
Laphria comata White, cf, 9 
Laphria comata White, 1917. Roy. Soc. Tas- 
mania, Proc. 1917: 85. 
Laphria comata Hardy, 1929- Linn. Soc. N. S. 
Wales, Proc. 54: 358. 
Laphria comata Hardy, 1934. Ann. and Mag. 
Nat. Hist. (10) 13: 521. 
Type (male) in the British Museum. 
The female was unknown up to the present; 
the note of G. H. Hardy, "the allotype female 
is in my own collection” cannot be accepted 
because this author has not published the 
description of the female. 
The female is very similar to the male, but 
all femora are less strongly incrassate. From 
the females of other species it differs in having 
a very acute ovipositor, which, together with 
some of the apical abdominal segments, is 
strongly compressed laterally (Fig. 3 a). This 
refutes the opinion of G. H. Hardy, 1934, 
that this form is only colour variety of L. 
rufifemorata Macq. 
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Fig. 3. a, Apical part of Laphria comata White, 
female, b, Apical part of Laphria rufifemorata Macq., 
female. 
The author has examined the following 
specimens: Australian Capital Territory: 2 
cfcf 1 , 17. ii. 1953, Bendora, near Canberra (S. 
J. Paramonov); 7 9 9, 6.ii.l952, Lee’s 
Springs, near Canberra (S. J. Paramonov); 
1 9 , 13. ii. 1952, Mt. Gingera (S. J. Para- 
monov); 1 9, 15.iii.1948, 1 9, 31.iii.1948, 
Blundell’s, near Canberra (S. J. Paramonov); 
1 9 , iii.1951, Westridge, Canberra (R. Rich- 
mond); 1 9 , 15. iv. 1953, Bendora (S. J. Para- 
monov) ; 1 9, 214.1931, Coree Creek, near 
Canberra (L. F. Graham) . New South Wales: 
1 c? 1 , 16. iv. 1949, Chatswood (A. Dyce) ; 1 d\ 
114.1956, 7 9 9, 74.1956, Tubrabucca Ck., 
Barrington Tops, 4200 ft. (I. F. B. Common); 
1 9 , 9.iv.l949, Barrington Tops (S. J. Para- 
monov) ; 1 9 , 28.ii.1936, Mt. Victoria (M. 
F. Day); 1 9 , 25.xi.19l4, Urella. 
Laphria flavifemorata Macquart, 9 
Laphria flavifemorata Macquart, 1849- Dipt. 
Exot., Sup. 4: 73. 
Laphria flavifemorata Ricardo, 1913. Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 11: 157. 
Laphria flavifemorata Hardy, 1929. Linn. Soc. 
N. S. Wales, Proc. 54: 358. 
Laphria flavifemorata Hardy, 1934. Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 13: 521. 
Type in the Paris Museum; from Tasmania. 
This species is unknown to the author. 
There are no grounds for the remark of G. 
