bY FhANK H. TAYLOR. 565 



Stegomyia DALIENSLS, Sp.Il, 



llead pale-scaled. Thorax with dark hmwu scales. Legs 

 unhanded. Ahdonien with hasal handing. 



J. Head entirely covered with pale scales, with hlack, upright- 

 forked ones on the vertex; antenna^ dark hrown, basal lobes and 

 base of second segment yellowish; palpi clothed with dark scales; 

 proboscis black. 



Thorax brown, cti)thed with dark brown, narrow-cui\ ed scales, 

 and numerous black bristles over the wing-roots ; scutelhnn 

 brown, clothed with pale scales; posterior border-bristles black; 

 pleune yellowish, clothed with pale scales and a few dark bristles. 



Abdomen clothed with black scales, first segment with 

 numerous dark bristles in addition; segments two to four with 

 pale basal bands, segments five and six with basal lateral pale 

 spots, seventh and eighth without bands or spots; venter with 

 pale scales. 



Legs : coxa' and trochanters pale, clothed with dark bristles; 

 femora w ith l)asal half pale beneath, rest of the femora, the tibiiv, 

 and tarsi dark brown; ungues all equal and simple. 



AVings with the scales on the costa, subcostal, and first long 

 \ein dark brown, brown on remaining veins; first fork-cell loiiger 

 and narrower than the second, base of the latter nearer the base 

 of the wine:; stem of the first fork-cell more than two-thirds the 

 lenjfth of the cell, stem of the second a little more than half the 

 length of its cell; anterior basal cross- vein longer than, and about 

 once and one-half its length from the anterior cross-vein; fringe 

 light brown. Halteres with pale stems and dark knobs. 



Length, 4 nun. (vix). 



//r^/y.— Northern Territory: Daly River (G. F. Hill). 



MiMETEOMYiA ORNATA Taylor. 



Stcijiniiyia onuifa Taylor, Trans. Ent. 8oc. London, 1914, p. 1S9. 



A re-examination of the unique type of the above shows that 

 it should, properly, be placed in the geinis Minn'tt'ontyia, on 

 account of the very bristly and truncated apex of the jibdomen, 

 and other points of agreement with the genus. 



