Australian Species of Laphria — PARAMONOV 
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swollen, especially in male. 
Abdomen in male reddish, only the basal 
segment and genitalia deep black, shining. 
Hairs on 2nd and 6th tergites reddish, on 
3rd-5th tergites black; these hairs are rather 
long and numerous, but depressed. Hypopy- 
gium very massive, rounded, and complicated 
in structure, longer than the 6th tergite. In the 
female the abdomen is black, but the central 
half is reddish, and covered with black hairs 
which camouflage the ground colour of the 
abdomen; last two tergites wholly reddish. 
The base of genital is also reddish but the 
remainder is black; hairs yellow. 
This species is also very closely related to 
L. variana White, but its black anterior and 
middle femora permit it to be separated easily 
from that species, as the fore and mid femora 
of L. variana White are widely yellow in the 
basal part. The colour of the wing is also 
different from that of L. variana; the larger 
apical part is strongly separated from the 
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1 A 
Fig. 6. a, Fore femora of Laphria variana White, 
female, h , Fore femora of Laphria rufifemorata Macq., 
female. 
hyaline base, whereas in L. variana the entire 
wing is uniformly coloured with an inter- 
mediate intensity. 
Length of body 13 mm., of wing 9 mm. 
1 d" (type), 1 $, ll.xii.1949, probably in 
copula, Eubenangee, Nth. Queensland (A. 
Burns); 1 9, xi.1926, Meringa, Queensland 
(Goldfinch). 
Type in the private collection of Mr. A. 
Burns, Melbourne. 
