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Thorax deep testaceous brown, covered with hair-like curved 
bronzy black scales, a more or less irregular band of narrow 
curved creamy to ochraceous ones running across the mesonotum ; 
in some lights the scales, except the pale ones, appear quite 
black ; scutellum deep brown, testaceous at the base, with hair- 
like black and narrow-curved creamy scales, six large black 
posterior border-bristles to the mid lobe; metanotum testaceous 
brown ; pleurae shiny brown, with a few pale scales and golden 
bristles. 
Abdomen black, covered with black scales with violet refiec- 
tions, posterior border-hairs pale, giving a quasi-banded appear- 
ance in some specimens, and with white basal lateral spots, 
venter with basal pale, almost white bands. 
Legs dark brown, almost black, unbanded; coxae pale, 
also the base and venter of the femora; fore and mid ungues 
rather small, equal and uniserrated, the teeth very small ; 
femora, tibiae and metatarsi with a few spines; femora rather 
swollen. | 
Wings with the fork-cells rather short and with brown scaled 
veins. First sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 
second posterior cell, its base slightly nearer the base of the 
wing than the base of the latter, its stem a little more than half 
the length of the cell; stem of the second posterior not quite as 
long as the cell; cross-veins rather pale, the posterior about its 
own length distant from the mid or a little less; the super- 
numerary cross-vein is longer than the mid, but not quite so long 
as the posterior cross-vein ; halteres with ochraceous stems and 
fuscous knobs with a few grey scales. 
Length.—4 mm. 
Habitat.—Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 
Time of capture.—May. | 
Observations.—Described from three ?’s, one showing traces 
of basal pale abdominal bands. It comes very near funerea, 
but can at once be told by the head not being all black and by 
the ungues being uniserrated. It seems subject to considerable 
variation, judging from the three specimens sent me by Dr. 
Bancroft. 

