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of pale ones. Abdomen deep brown with basal creamy bands 
largest in the middle and with prominent creamy basal lateral 
spots. Legs brown, ochreous brown at base, metatarsi and first 
tar sals with basal pale bands. Wings with mottled scales. 
9 . Head deep brown, clothed with narrow and rather broad 
curved creamy scales ; deep brown upright forked ones behind 
and golden-brown frontal chaetae ; antennae deep brown with 
black vertitillate hairs and paler pubescence on the internodes, 
basal segment dark and ferruginous in places with small black 
hairs, base of second segment ferruginous. Palpi dark brown. 
Proboscis deep brown, the scales in the middle showing paler 
reflections. 
Thorax rich brown, the anterior half with narrow-curved 
silvery-white scales, showing creamy reflections . at the sides, the 
posterior half with smaller golden brown narrow-curved scales 
and with two lines of paler scales at the side of the bare space 
before the scutellum ; chaetae rich brown; scutellum brown with 
narrow-curved pale scales and rich brown border-bristles ; meta- 
notum chestnut-brown with darker markings; pleurae rich brown 
with flat dull white to creamy scales. 
Abdomen bright testaceous, clothed with dark scales showing 
dull violet reflections and with basal pale creamy bands which 
swell out in the middle and with basal creamy white lateral 
spots ; border-bristles pale golden ; venter apparently testaceous. 
Legs brown with ochreous reflections ; base and under side of 
femora pale, a pale band at the base of the metatarsi and first 
tarsal; fore and mid ungues uniserrate (hind V). 
Wings with brown scales, some traces of ochreous ones ; first 
sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 
its base about level with that of the latter, its stem slightly more 
than half the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior about 
two-thirds the length of the cell; mid cross-vein longer than the 
supernumerary, the posterior nearly the same length as the mid, 
sloping forwards and nearly twice its own length distant from it. 
Length .—3 * 5 mm. 
Habitat .—Stannary Hills, Queensland. 
Time of capture. —27. iii. 09 (Hr. Bancroft). 
Observations .—^Described from a nearly perfect 9 • Easily 
told from other Leucomyia by its paler colour and leg banding. 
It appears to be rare, as Hr. Bancroft had only been able to 
obtain one specimen. 
Type in the British Museum. 
