BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 91 



vein appearing as a continuation of the first longitudinal ; second 

 posterior cell in punctifcrm contact with discal cell ; discal cell 

 pentangular. 



Hob. — Benalla, Victoria (Helms). A single specimen in 

 November. 



402. Plusiomyia lineata, sp.n. (PI. v., fig. 10.) 



5. — Length of antennte 0"165 inch .. 4-18 millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-630 x 0-150 ... 16-00x3-81 



Size of body 0-860x0-090 ... 21-83x2-27 



Head black ; rostrum, suctorial labella and palpi brown ; 

 antennae fulvous deepening into brown, the branches dai'k brown 

 or blackish ; first flagellar joint short, not ^ the length of first 

 joint of scapus, with a short branch about the middle beneath ; 

 second to ninth flagellar joints with a pair of lateral branches at 

 the base, most of them twice the length of the joints ; four terminal 

 cylindrical joints. Thoi*ax black, opaque ; prothorax, pleurse and 

 metathorax fei-ruginous or reddish-fulvous ; metanotum with a 

 large square black spot almost covering its entire surface. 

 Halteres brown. Abdomen greyish-black, the fii\st few segments 

 fulvous with a dorsal and lateral black stripes which widen and 

 comj)letely suS"use the following segments ; ovipositor brownish- 

 ferruginous. Coxae and femora ferruginous or fulvous, the femora 

 with a brown ring at the apex ; tibiae and tarsi rather more brownish 

 than the femora. In the hind legs the tarsi not much (about i) 

 longer than the tibise. Wings with a pale brownish tint, with a 

 whitish narrow arcuated streak from second basal cell (opposite 

 origin of prpefurca), through the discal, including small portion of 

 distal end of first basal cell, and finally entirely filling first posterior 

 cell. Ultimate section of the anterior branch of the second longi- 

 tudinal vein appearing as a continuation of the first longitudinal ; 

 second posterior cell in complete contact with the discal, the latter 

 consequently hexagonal. 



Hah. — King George's Sound, Western Austi'alia (Masters). A 

 single specimen. 



