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hinder border of metanotum, brown. Haltei'es dusky brown. 

 Abdomen testaceous, levigate ; first segment greyish, opaque, with 

 a browaiish marking ; ovipositor dark reddish-brown, nitidous. 

 Coxse grey. Trochantex'S testaceous. Femora testaceous, with a 

 broad dark brown or black ring at apex. Tibiae and tarsi dark 

 brown or black, the former testaceous at the base. Wings very 

 similar to those of H. cinerascens, only darker, and having some 

 yellow spots ; a yellowish oblique marking from costa to fifth 

 longitudinal vein at basal third of second basal cell, the included 

 portion of the fifth vein bright yellow ; a yellowish spot imme- 

 diately before stigma ; not quite so much whitish in second basal 

 cell as in H. cinerascens, only a small spot in fourth posterior cell, 

 and scarcely any traces on posterior half of wing. Venation as in 

 H. cinerascens, except that the discal cell is a little shorter ; stigma 

 brown. 



Hob. — Rodd Island, Port Jackson (Skuse). One specimen at 

 end of March. 



406. Habromastix remota, Walker. (PI. v., fig. 12). 



Tijmla remota, Wlk., List Dipt. Brit. Mus. I. p. 73, 1848. 



(J. — Length of antennae... ... 0*640 inch ... 16"78 millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-600 x 0-120 ... 15-24x3-04 



Size of body 0-500x0-060 ... 12-70x1-54 



Head brownish-grey, tinged with brown on the front ; rostrum 

 brown, pubescent ; suctorial labella and palpi dark brown; antennse 

 brown, the joints of scapus and first two or three flagellar joints 

 more fulvous ; antennae longer than the entire body, the flagellar 

 joints long, fi^form, densely adorned with long erect hairs ; the 

 terminal joint less than \ the length of preceding joint. Thorax 

 brown, levigate, the lateral borders and three narrow stripes before 

 the suture, grey ; the stripes extending from anterior border to, 

 and slightly converging towards, the suture ; behind the suture, 

 above the origin of the wings and before the scutellum, more or 

 less hoary greyish ; pleurae hoary greyish ; metanotum grey, brown 



