88 REVISION OP THE STRATIOMYIDiE OF AUSTRALIA, 



three segments, and outer margins of the remaining segments, 

 shining, pale yellow; fourth segment black, with a pale yellow 

 hind-margin: fifth and sixtli black; genitalia black: first three, 

 abdominal segments with a few, yellow hairs at sides, f-egs with 

 all femora black, anterior and middle tibife and tarsi pale yellow, 

 posterior tibise and tarsi black. Wings brown, the venation 

 closely resembling that of (y'eranopns piwpuratus (See Fig.6). 

 Halteres purplish-white. 



This interesting species may be easily recognised by its very 

 variegated colouring, in conjunction with the extremely long 

 antennpe. Two specimens are, at present, known. One of these 

 is in the collection of the Melbourne Museum; the other was 

 taken by Mr. F. P. Spry, at Fern Tree Gully, in December, 

 1913. In Mr. Spry's opinion, this species mimicks one of the 

 £raconid(e. 



13. O p H I o D E s M A, gen.nov. (Fig.7). 



Antennse almost twice the length of head, first two segments 

 short, the first being twice the length of second, third about six 

 times the length of first and second together, composed of eight, 

 closely united segments; scutellum with two, small spines; ab- 

 domen rounded, distinctly longer than broad; wings with four, 

 postei'ior veins, which all issue from the discal cell; cubital vein 

 forked. 



Fig.7. — Head of Ophiodesma Jlainpalpis, ?. 



Head rounded in front. Eyes in female (the only sex known) 

 bare and separated, but not very widely. Antennse situated 

 about the middle of the head in profile, almost twice the length 



