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Australian Species of Laphria — PARAMONOV 
Wings in apical two thirds strongly smoked 
but not black. First posterior cell at apex 
distinctly narrowed; 4th posterior cell closed 
close to hind margin of wing, only slightly 
shorter than discal cell. All veins black. 
Legs black, pulvilli yellow, underside of 
fore tibiae so densely covered with short yel- 
low hairs as to appear yellow. Hairs on tibiae 
extremely long, thin and yellow. All femora 
short and very swollen. 
Abdomen narrow, cylindrical. First segment 
black, other segments becoming more reddish 
towards the apex. Lateral bristles yellow, 
weak. Discs of tergites with very short black 
hairs, along the hind margins there are nu- 
merous yellow hairs almost forming cross- 
bands. Hypopygium large, very swollen, red- 
dish, with some separate bristles, but lacking 
tufts. 
Length of body 14 mm., of wing 11 mm. 
1 d\ 5.xii.l953 (type), and 1 $, ll.xii. 
1953, Wyndham, Kimberley Research Station, 
Western Australia (R. Lukins). 
Type (male) in the Division of Entomology 
Museum, C.S.I.R.O., Canberra. 
Laphria modest a sp. nov., cP, $ 
Belongs to the group of species with black 
legs and wings with saturated colour along 
the veins. Closely related to L. mauroides sp. 
nov., but easily distinguishable by its partly 
reddish scutellum and by the short subdiscal 
cell (Fig. 5b), which in L. mauroides is very 
slightly shorter than the discal cell. 
Black, shining. Head with grey dust. Mous- 
tache tubercle sharply protuberant in profile 
(in L. mauroides not strongly separated from 
the upper part of face). Moustache consists 
of black bristles, hairs of face whitish. Pro- 
boscis short, depressed from above. Third 
antennal joint elliptical, elongated. Occiput 
with grey dust and whitish hairs, ocellar tuber- 
cle with 2 very strong, long, black bristles. 
There are some whitish spots on mesonotum 
beside the humeral calli, but they are poorly 
developed. Hairs on mesonotum predomi- 
nantly whitish. Prescutellar area (declining 
part) with fine black and white hairs. Disc 
of scutellum and postalar calli reddish. Mar- 
ginal bristles of scutellum very thin, hair-like, 
whitish; postnotum with strong white dust. 
Bunch of long hairs in front of halteres black. 
Halteres yellow. Wings rather strongly 
smoked, more so along the veins. First pos- 
terior cell distinctly narrowed at apex. Fourth 
posterior cell distinctly shorter than discal 
cell; the veins closing the discal and 4th pos- 
terior cell are not parallel; the lower angle of 
the latter is acute. 
Legs black, mostly with white, shortish 
hairs; the fore tibiae lacking the usual ex- 
tremely long bristles and hairs. Femora short, 
swollen. Tibiae dark brown. 
Abdomen black, shining, with predomi- 
nantly whitish short hairs laterally and white 
spots at sides of tergites 2-4. Hypopygium of 
moderate size. Lateral bristles mostly yellow; 
on apical segments they, as well as the hairs, 
are dark. 
Length of body 9-5-13.5 mm., of wing 
7-10 mm. 
Females appear to be larger on the average 
than the males. 
2 d'd', 3 $9, 20. iv. 1924, Eidsvold, 
Queensland (Bancroft), type male, labelled 
with a type label; 1 cf, Jan.-Feb. 1923, 
Eidsvold, Queensland. 
Type in the Division of Entomology Mu- 
seum, C.S.I.R.O., Canberra. 
Laphria dayi sp. nov., cf , $ 
Belongs to the group with black legs, but 
with not absolutely black wings, easily dis- 
tinguishable from L. modesta sp. nov. and L. 
mauroides sp. nov. by the presence of numer- 
ous, short bristles immediately above the 
scutellum, in the prescutellar area of the 
mesonotum. 
Body black, shining. Head densely covered 
with a greyish dust, moustache area shining. 
Bristles of moustache very long, black, the 
lateral parts of the face covered with whitish 
