BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 97 



posteriorly. Halteres with a blackish club. Abdomen brown, the 

 terminal segments black, each segment bordered posteriorly and 

 more or less laterally with yellowish-grey ; forceps deep brown. 

 Legs very long and slender, brownish-fulvous, the tips of femora 

 and tibiee brown. Wings with a pale brownish tint, marked with 

 about twelve irregular whitish spots ; the latter usually crossing 

 the veins, the included portions being yellowish ; the spots on the 

 apical portion of the wing smaller than the othei's ; veins and 

 stigma brown, distinct. First longitudinal vein joining anterior 

 branch of second longitudinal close to the base ; inner ends of 

 second submarginal, first posterior and discal cell in one line ; 

 second posterior cell with a long petiole ; discal cell small, not 

 quite the length of petiole of second posterior cell ; fourth posterior 

 cell longer and narrower than usual ; fifth posterior cell in puncti- 

 form contact with the discal cell. 



Hah. — Lawson, Blue Mountains, N.S.W. (Masters). One speci- 

 men in January. 



Ohs. — The above-described answers to Walker's description of 

 T. remota, from *' New Holland." 



2. AntenncB 13-jointed (? in both sexes). 



Genus 9. Phymatopsis, gen.nov. 



First longitudinal vein joining anterior branch of second lon- 

 gitudinal vein near the base ; rhomboid cell small ; praef urea short, 

 rather longer than the great cross-vein ; second posterior cell with 

 a short petiole or sessile. Front moderately broad, with a promi- 

 nent tubercle immediately above the base of antennce. Rostrum 

 considerably longer than the head, distinctly pubescent ; nasus 

 wanting. Antenna} IS-jointed in ^, short, the terminal six or 

 seven joints distinctly smaller. ^ genitalia of simple structure. 



Rostrum considerably longer than the head, densely covered 

 with short hairs ; nasus wanting ; palpi with the first and third 

 joints shortest, of about equal length, the terminal joint long, 



