Genus Mimeteomyia 
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abdomen bristly. Compare wings of this and Hachisoura, to 
which it bears a strong superficial resemblance. 
Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 
Mimeteomyia apicotriangulata. nov. sp. 
Head black, pale around the eyes, also the small palpi and 
proboscis; palpi short, clavate. Thorax brown with dull golden 
scales, most prominent over wing roots. Abdomen black with 
apical white triangular lateral spots ; apex bristly. Legs black, 
unbanded; under side of femora pale. 
9 . Head clothed with flat black scales except at the sides 
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Pig. 84. 
Mimeteomyia apicotriangulata. n. sp. 
a, apex of abdomen ; 6, lateral adornment. 
and along a narrow border around the eyes ; two pale chaetae 
between the eyes, black ones along the eye borders ; clypeus and 
proboscis black; palpi very short and black; antennae blackish- 
brown with black vertitillate hairs and silvery grey pubescence. 
Thorax black, clothed with rather large bronzy-brown curved 
scales and similar ones of a dull ochreous hue mainly behind and 
at the sides ; chaetae black with dull golden reflections ; scutellum 
dark with small flat dark scales, some showing dull ochreous 
reflections; border-bristles deep brown; metanotum black; 
pleurae deep brown with patches of flat pale grey scales. 
Abdomen black with apical triangular white spots, the base 
of the triangles apically placed ; box der-bristles dark with some 
golden reflections, apical segment bristly. 
