BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. - 573 



boscis dark bi'owii ; abdonieii, winys, and legs similar to ^, 

 ungues equal and simple. 



Length, ^, 3-75-4; $, 4mm. 



Hab.—l^. Territory: 8tapleton and Daly River (G. F.Hill, 

 Nos.309-312). 



Related to L. fraudatrix Theob., but distinguished from it by 

 the banded abdomen, ungues, and the palpi possessing but one 

 process on each side of their bases. It differs from L. Ucniata Leic, 

 by the length of the paljii, the ungues, and the wing-venation. 



Co-type ((J) in Coll. Hill. 



Etorleptiomyia eleoans Taylor. 



Divomi/ia flegans T'a,y\o\\ Tians. Ent. 8oc. Lond, 1914, p. 703, 

 Pis. xliii., xHv., figs. 19, 18. 



There is a close similarity between Etorleptiomyia Theobald, 

 and Divomt/ia Taylor, the chief difference being in the disposition 

 of the head-scales of the two genera. Whereas they are all 

 "mixed" in the former, thev are more or less separated into well 

 defined areas in the latter. It is, perhaps, better that Di.vomyia 

 be sunk as a synonym of Etorleptiomyia, and the species regarded, 

 for the present, as an aberrant form of the genus Etorleptiomyia, 



^DEOMYIA VENUSTIPES (Skuse). 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales, (2) iii., p. 1761 (1888); Taylor, 

 op. cit., 1913, PI. XXX., fig.3; ^E. catasticta Knab, Ent. News, xx., 

 p. 387 (1909). 



The above synonymy is based on specimens of ^E. catasticta 

 Knab, recently received froai The Imperial Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy, which have been compared with specimens of jE. venustipes 

 (Skuse). 



The differences between the two forms are so slight, that they 

 do not seem to me to be of sufficient value to warrant the reten- 

 tion of the two names as distinct species, but the name catasticta 

 might be retained as a varietal name for the form described by 

 Knab. The only distinctions found between the specimens ex- 

 amined were the presence of ochre-yellow scales t)n the base of 



