BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 63 



388. DOLICHOPEZA MONTICOLA, Sp.n. 



^. — Length of antennae 0-085 inch ... 2-14 millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-300 x 0-065 ,.. 7-62x1-66 



Size of body 0-260x0-030 ... 6-62x0-76 



^. — Length of antennae 0-065 inch ... 1-66 millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-360x0-080 ... 9-13x202 



Size of body 0-340x0-030 ... 8-62x0-76 



Head, rostrum, basal joints of antennas, and (generally) first 

 two joints of palpi yellow ; occiput, suctorial labella, terminal 

 joints of palpi, and flagellar joints of antennae dark brown ; 

 antennae short, a little longer in ^ than in <^, the flagellar joints 

 with two or three long stifi" hairs near the base. Thorax brown, 

 opaque, with a broad whitish or pale yellow stripe from humeri, 

 across pleurae, to base of hind coxae ; pronotum sometimes pale 

 yellow ; often indistinct traces of two pale brown lines terminating 

 at suture ; the latter, a spot above origin of wings, and the scu- 

 tellum and metanotum similarly pale. Halteres dark brown, pale 

 at the base of stem. Abdomen dark brown (1 green in fresh 

 specimens), the segments with an ochreous or pale greenish lateral 

 spot at the middle of their length ; genitalia (PI. vi., fig. 24) more 

 or less tinged with ochreous. Legs dark brown, coxEe and base of 

 femora ochreous, the fore and intermediate coxae with a brown spot 

 at the base ; genua slightly, and tip of metatarsus with following 

 four joints entirely, white. Wings sub-hyaline, the veins and apex 

 slightly clouded with pale brownish ; a whitish spot at each end of 

 stigma ; stigma and veins brown, very distinct ; anal angle of 

 wing only a little projecting, consequently the seventh longi- 

 tudinal vein close to the margin; great cross-vein usually less 

 than its length distant from inner end of fourth posterior cell. 



Hah.— Mount Kembla, Illawarra district (Skuse). November. 

 Five specimens. 



