452 AUSTRALIAN STRAtIoMYID^E, 



Frons, vertex and thorax dark bronze-green ; antennas rusty red 

 shading into black beyond the second joint; abdomen bright orange 

 brown with brownish-black segmentations, the first and seventh 

 segments entirely brownish-black; genitalia prominent, bright 

 orange brown (Fig. le). 



Text-fig. 1/-. 

 Actina vietorice, n.sp., male. 



Head (1-30 wide), narrower than in male, wider than prescutum 

 (115); eyes (-30 apart) parallel on their inner margins, no long 

 black hairs on vertex and Irons and very few on clypeus; genae 

 as in male, mouth parts yellowish; palpi dark ochraceous; eyes 

 almost hairless; antennae about 85 long, first and second joints 

 rusty red and clothed with short stout black hairs, third joint 

 entirely black, or shading from rusty into black towards its apex; 

 style black. 



Thorax without long black hairs. Legs dark ochraceous, second 

 and fifth tarsals of each leg and the apices of the femora and 

 tibia of the hind legs shaded brown. 



Hah. — Vic: Ararat, April 1917. 



Described from two females and nine males taken on the wing 

 from a small flight at Native Cherry Tree (Exoairpnt). 



Subfamily CLITELLARIN^. 

 Negritomyia albitarsis Bigot. (Fig. 2). 



9. Total length, 10-11; wing, 9-5. 



( 'lypeus, head, thorax and abdomen black, covered Avith silvery 

 pubescence; dorsum of thorax, scutellum and scutellar spines with 

 black hairs 



Head: eyes nearly parallel along the inner margins, densely 



