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84 REVISION OF THE STRATIOMYID.E OF AUSTRALIA, 



II.Geranopus, gen.nov. (Figs. 5 and 6). 



Antenni« with third joint consisting of four, closely united 

 segments, produced terminally into a long, thickened arista; eyes 

 bare in both sexes, joined in the male, widely separated in the 

 female; scutellum with two spines; abdomen slightly broader 

 than the thorax, with a constricted base; legs remarkably long, 

 the first joint of posterior tarsi longer than the posterior tibiie, 

 wings with the four, posterior veins arising from the discal cell, 

 and reaching to the wing-margin, or almost so. 



Head larger in male than ^-^-^^ 

 in female, wider than the 

 front part of the thorax, and 

 excavated behind; face round- 

 ed. Eyes bare in both sexes, 



joined in the male, widely \,^^ / 



separated in female. Antenna^ ^*^>mrJlv 



rather lunger than the head, Fig.o. 



r; , • • , . • .1 1 ,1 p Head of iiermiopUH pm-purutiiii, 9 ■ 

 first joint twice the length or i^ j j^ > ^ 



second, third twice the length of first and second together, com- 

 posed of four, closely united segments, the fourth pointed, and 

 produced terminally into a slightly thickened arista, which is 

 about the same lengtli as the rest of the antenna*. Thorax long 

 and almost parallel-sided, the scutellum with two spines. Ab- 

 domen slightly broader than thorax, the base constricted. Legs 

 remarkably long, first joint of posterior tarsi longer than the 

 hind tibiae. Wings with the costal vein extended considerably 

 beyond the tip of the cubital; cuWital vein forked; discal cell 

 with four, issuing veinlets, although the fourth may sometimes 

 issue only from the extreme corner; they are complete, and reach 

 the wing-margin or almost so; anal cell closed at some distance 

 from the wing-margin. 



This genus bears some resemblance to the Saryinca, but is 

 separated from that sul)family on account of all the four, pos- 

 terior veins arising from the discal cell, and because the arista 

 is thickened, and not thread-like. The genus of the Clitel/arina', 

 to whicli it seems to bear most I'esemblance, is the Mexican and 

 Cuban genus Chrysochlora, but it is distinguished from that 



