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aristal joiiii short. Male claws long. Male willi row of delicate 

 bristles outside the frontals, together with short bristh- hairs. 

 Apical cross-vein straight, cubitus without slump. Vertical bristles 

 strong. First abdominal segment with marginal macrocha>tie. 

 Costal spine small, third vein bristled only at l)ase. Hind tibiic 

 not ciliaie. Proboscis short and stout, palpi club-shaped. Third 

 antennal joint of male enJarged, about three times as long as the 

 second. 



To this genus appareniK belongs Masicera simplex Mcq., 

 l!S47. Dipt. Kxot. Suppl. II, 87, Tasmania; Brauer, Sitz. Ak. 

 Wiss. CVI, 337. The characters agree well, except that the male 

 vertex is considerabh- narrower. 



Eurygastropsis, new genu>. 



'^lenotxpe, Eurigaster tasmanice Walker, 1858, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 London, n. s. IV, 197. Tasmania, Austen, Ann. Mag. N. H. ser. 7, 

 XIX. :-!31. 



Allied to Frontina. Eyes and i)arafacials hair\ . Ocellar 

 Ijrisiles wanting. Epistoma very prominent. Macnjcha-ta- of abdo- 

 men onh- marginal. Male claws short. Male frontalia narrowed 

 posteriorly. Frontal bristles descending one-third way down the 

 face. F"acialia ciliate practically their whole length. Antennae 

 reaching the epistoma. third joint six times as long as second. 

 Arista thickened its whole length, hardh' as long as third antennal 

 joint. Cubitus obtuse, apical cross-\ein slightK' bent in, apical 

 cell ending well before wing tip, hind cross-\ein nearcT to cubitus 

 lh;m to -^iiiall cross-N-ein. 



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 Meseinbriomintho, new genus. 



Genotype, '\fescmhrinminthn rompressa. new sj)ecies. 



Differs from Miiitho as follows: Apical cell closed in margin, 

 ending just before wing tip; cubitus close to hind margin of wing; 

 costal spine atrophied. Front of male at \ertcx hardly over one- 

 third width of one eye, that of female about one-half e>e-width. 

 Facialia bare. Arista plumose. Frontal bristles not descending 

 below base of antenna-. Abdomen strongly compressed lateralh- 



