BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 611 



cinereous ; tarsi black. Tibial spurs black. In the fore-legs the 

 tibiae about |- longer than the metatarsus. Wings pellucid, with 

 a slightly greyish tint ; veins deep brown. Auxiliary vein termi- 

 nating in the first longitudinal vein at about the middle of the 

 marginal cell ; subcostal cross-vein wanting ; marginal cell more 

 than twice as long as wide ; petiole about \ longer than the 

 posterior branch of the fork ; base of the fork of the fifth longitu- 

 dinal vein situated opposite the proximal end of first posterior cell. 

 Hah. — Mossman's Bay, near Sydney (Skuse). August. 



Genus Neoempheria, Osten-Sacken. 



Empheria (prceoc), Winnertz, V. z.-b. G. Wien, XIII., p. 738, 

 pi, XIX., figs. 9a-b,, 1863 ; Neoempheria, O.-Sack., Catl. Dipt. N. 

 Amer., 2nd ed., p. 9, 1878. 



Agrees almost entirely with Sciophila, difiers in the following : — 

 Eyes round ; antennae somewhat compressed, cylindrical ; the 

 spine on the intermediate coxse of ^ always wanting ; costal vein 

 extending beyond the tip of the third longitudinal vein, but not 

 reaching as far as the apex of the wing ; auxiliary veiu joining 

 sometimes somewhat beyond the marginal cell ; base of the wings 

 sometimes obtusely cuneiform. 



473. Neoempheria signifera, sp.n. (PI. xix., fig. 4). 



(j. — Length of antennae 0*035 inch ... 0-88 millimetre. 



Expanse of wings O-llOxO-040 ... 2-79xl-01 



Size of body 0-120x0025 ... 3-04 x 0-62 



2. — Length of antennse 0-035 inch ... 0-88 millimetre. 



Expanse of wings O'llO x 0-040 ... 2-79 x 1-01 



Size of body 0-120x0025 ... 3-04x0-62 



(J and 2' — Antennae short, rather slender, about the length of 

 the thorax ; joints of scapus and first one or two flagellar joints 

 yellow ; remaining flagellar joints brown, with a minute pale 

 pubescence. Hypostoma and proboscis brown or brownish. 



