BY FREDERICK A, A. SKUSE, 407 



459. SCIARA CRASSICORNIS, Sp.ll. 



(^.—Length of antennae 0-045 inch ... 1 -13 millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-066 x 0-025 ... 1-67 x 0-62 



Size of body 0-060x0-015 ... 1-54x0-38 



Antennae dark brown or black, densely covered with yellowish 

 pubescence ; rather stout, two-thirds the length of the entire body ; 

 flagellar joints sub-sessile, 2 to 3 times as long as broad, progress- 

 ively decreasing in thickness. Head deep brown or black, levigate. 

 Eyes contiguous above. Palpi yellow. Thorax deep brown or 

 black, sub-nitidous, with three longitudinal single rows of very 

 short yellowish hairs ; intermediate row very short ; lateral ones 

 reaching the scutellum ; humeri slightly tipped with ochreous ; 

 lateral borders and scutellum with a few tolerably long black 

 hairs. Halteres brown, the stem more or less yellow. Abdomen 

 deep brown or black, narrower than the thorax ; the anterior 

 incisions and venter brownish-ochreoiis ; densely clothed with 

 very short black hairs ; forceps slender, black. Coxse and femora 

 yellow. Tibiae and tarsi greyish, with a minute black pubescence. 

 In the fore-legs the tarsi somewhat longer than the tibise ; in the 

 intermediate-legs the tibise and tarsi of equal length ; in the hind- 

 legs the tibiae a little longer than the tarsi. Spurs yellow. First 

 joint of the tarsi 3 times the length of the second ; second 5 to ^ 

 longer than the third, and about equal to the fourth and fifth 

 combined. Wings hyaline or almost so, with brilliant chalybeous 

 and green reflections ; costal and first two longitudinal veins black 

 or deep brown. First longitudinal vein reaching the costa a con- 

 siderable distance before the base of the fork ; cross- vein distinct ; 

 petiole invisible, exactly as long as the anterior branch of the fork ; 

 base of fork indistinct, branches parallel, tips slightly divergent. 

 fg twice the length of gh ; kl equal to Im. 



Eab. — Dunoon, Richmond River, N.S.W. (Helms). March and 

 April. 



126. SCIARA WiNNERTZI, Sk. 



S. Winnertzi, Sk., I.e., p. 709. 



This does not appear to be a common species. I took a single 

 (J specimen during September last, at Woronora, N.S.W. 



