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somewhat curved, and each segment bordered with golden 
bristles ; there is also a small white basal spot on each side of the 
segments ; venter covered with creamy-white and dark scales. 
Legs with the coxae chestnut-brown, with a few white and 
black scales; femora white at the base and beneath, black 
towards the apex, and mottled at the base above and at the 
apex below with black and white scales, extreme apex yellow; 
tibiae deep brown to black; fore metatarsi and first two tarsal 
joints of the fore and mid legs has ally banded yellowish white, 
the bands being much more distinct in the mid than in the fore 
legs, last two joints black; in the hind legs the metatarsi and 
the first three tarsal joints have very broad, white, basal bands, 
the last only being black; tibiae with a few golden bristles and 
a line of smaller pallid hairs; hind metatarsi about one-third 
shorter than the hind tibiae. Ungues of the fore and mid legs 
thick, equal and uniserrated. 
Wings longer than the abdomen, the veins very densely 
covered w T ith brown scales; testaceous at the base;, first sub¬ 
marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, 
its base a little nearer the base of the wing than that of the 
latter, its stem about two and a half times shorter than the cell; 
stem of the second posterior cell about one and a half times less; 
posterior cross-vein situated about its own length distant from 
the mid cross-vein and a little longer than the latter; mid cross¬ 
vein almost under the junction of the sub-costal and costal. 
Halteres ochraceous, with the knob fuscous on one side. 
Length. —5 to 6 mm. 
Habitat .—Victoria (French); King George's Sound, Western 
Australia (Masters). 
Time of capture .—October, in Victoria. 
Observations. —Skuse described this species from a single 
specimen obtained by Mr. Masters, and apparently previously 
described in some MSS. notes by W. Macleay. Five specimens 
have been received at the Museum from Victoria in a collection 
sent by the Victorian Government, prepared by Mr. French, 
mainly from the higher lands of Victoria. 
It is a very distinct species, with bright reddish-brown 
thorax, pleurae, &c=, and dark abdomen banded basally, and 
vfith dark legs, and basally banded metatarsi and feet. 
Some specimens have been received from Victoria from 
Dr. Bancroft that answer very closely to this species, and which 
I take to be a variety of it. C. occidentalis varies in size 
