456 



AUSTRALIAN STRATIOMYlDyfc, 



remainder of each segment clothed with short black pubescence, 

 fifth segment black. 



£. Similar to £. Antennae about 4 mm. long, first and second 

 joints dark buff, the former (-40) twice as long as the latter; 

 vertex less hairy than in male, abdomen relatively shorter and 

 broader; silvery pubescence on abdomen less conspicuous. 



Hob.— Northern Territory: Darwin, 13th Feb., 1915. 



Described from one male and one female, taken on foliage of 

 garden plants. 



(Xute. — This genus has not been recorded previously from 

 Australia.) 



Subfamily STRATIOMYIN.E. 



Odontomyia pallida, n.sp. (Figs.la, 46). 

 £. Total length, 7; wing, 5 - 75. 



Head wider than long (2 '55 by l - 90); eyes: upper half lighter- 

 coloured and more coarsely facetted than lower, widely separated 

 below, converging immediately above the insertion of the 



antennas ; antennas dark ochraceous, 

 arising about the middle of the head in 

 profile, "90 in length, first and second 

 joints equal in length, fringed with a 

 few short stiff hairs at apex, third joint 

 long with four indistinct segments and 

 a short terminal style ; clypeus light 

 stramineous, prominent, triangular, bare; 

 gente light stramineous, with a few 

 short hairs, pai'afacials prominent; pro- 

 boscis brownish black; ocellar plate black, longer than wide, with 

 a few short golden hairs and broad scales (Fig. 4«). 



Thorax blackish, completely covered with short golden yellow 

 hairs and broad scales, producing a brassy appearance, apex of 

 scutellum dark ochraceous, rounded and armed with two very 

 small spines, humeral calli and pleura dark stramineous, sternum 

 blackish. Halteres pale greenish yellow. Legs uniform dark 

 stramineous. 



Text-fig. 4a. 



Odontomyia pallida, n.sp. 

 male. 



