BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 637 



488. DiLOPHUS LECTICOLLIS, sp.n, 



^, — Length of antennae 0"016 inch ... 0*40 millimetre. 



Expanse of wings 0-180 x 0-070 ... 4-56x1-77 



Size of body 0-180x0-037 ... 4-56x0-90 



Antennse very short, 2- + 9-jointed ; joints of scapus greyish ; 

 flagellar joints black. Head, eyes, proboscis and palpi black. 

 Proboscis short. Thorax brownish-testaceous, nitidous, with yellow 

 hairs ; pectus and metanotum tinged with blackish ; two ranges 

 of prothorax spines. Halteres dark brown or black, the stem 

 yellowish. Abdomen very dark brown or black, shining, the 

 incisions ochreous ; clothed with yellow hairs ; lamellae of the 

 ovipositor black. Legs testaceous, the fore tibise and tarsi, last 

 three or four joints of the intermediate tarsi and last joint of the 

 hind tarsi brown. Fore femora short, dilated, about same size as 

 fore coxse, half the length of hind femora ; the latter slender at 

 the base, with the apical two-thirds fusiform. Fore and inter- 

 mediate tibiae short, of about equal length ; hind pair long, slender 

 at the base, claviform ; the fore tibiae with four prominent spines 

 in front before the middle, and a coronet of the same at the apex. 

 Tarsi slender, somewhat thicker in the hind-legs. Wings as long 

 as the entire body, pellucid, almost hyaline ; stigma prominent, 

 brown ; costal, first two longitudinal veins, the cross-vein and base 

 of fourth longitudinal vein brown, the rest paler ; brilliant 

 reflections. Costal vein extending beyond the tip of the third 

 longitudinal vein half way from that to the tip of the anterior 

 branch of the fork ; auxiliary vein long, yellow, joining the costa 

 opposite the distal end of the cross-vein ; sub-costal cross-vein 

 indistinct, situated somewhat before the base of the fork of the 

 fifth longitudinal vein ; tip of the first longitudinal vein enveloped 

 in the stigma, appearing to reach the costa ; middle cross-vein 

 situated at the base of the fork of the fourth longitudinal vein ; 

 sixth longitudinal vein long, not reaching the wing-border. 



//„&._Waterloo, Walcha, New England, N.S.W. (J. F 

 Schofield). May. 



