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scattered flat light ones, and numerous golden hairs; venter 
black, with scattered white scales. 
Legs covered with black scales, with bronzy reflections ; femora 
paler, with scattered white scales at the base and under side, a 
distinct white knee spot to all the legs ; tibiae black, with white 
scales below and pallid hairs ; base of all the metatarsi with a pale 
band, quite white in the hind legs ; first two tarsi of the fore and 
mid Ws with a narrow basal white band ; all the hind tarsi 
basally white ; hind metatarsi one-third less than the hind tibiae ; 
ungues of the fore and mid legs equal, each with a tooth ; of hind 
legs equal, but simple. 
Wings with the scales deep brown, except those of the first 
long vein, in which there are numerous white scales as well; fork 
cells short, the first sub-marginal a little longer and narrower 
than the second posterior, their bases about level; stem of the 
first sub-marginal cell rather more than half the length of the 
cell; stem of the second posterior cell not quite as long as the 
cell; posterior cross-vein about its own length distant from the 
mid cross-vein. 
Halteres ochraceous. 
Length. —4-5 to 5 mm. 
^ . Head black, with pale golden curved scales and black 
and brown narrow upright forked ones, sides densely covered 
with flat white scales. Antennae banded, plumes silky-brown 
and dull yellow, the top joints of the antennae dark ; proboscis 
dark brown, quite black towards the tip ; palpi almost black, 
the penultimate joint and apex of the antepenultimate swollen, 
the apical joint thinner, faint basal pale bands on the last two 
joints, hair-tufts yellow. Abdomen with basal white bands, the 
last segment unbancled, but with a few white scales, the ante¬ 
penultimate with the basal band expanded laterally, and with 
yellow apical scales ; densely golden haired. Ungues of fore feet 
unequal, the larger one with two teeth, the smaller with one ; 
hind ungues equal, each with a single tooth. 
Length. —4-8 to 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Queensland (Dr. Bancroft) (71). 
Time of capture. —July. 
Observations. —This species resembles C. atboannulatus very 
closely, but it can be told by the hind tarsi being all basally 
white-banded, whilst in C. atboannulatus the last tarsal joint 
of the hind legs is entirely black; the ungues also differ from 
C. atboannulatus. 
