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AUSTRALIAN STRATIOMYIDjE, 



the sides; posterior border of scutellum rounded, dark stramine- 

 ous, with two moderately long spines and some long golden hairs; 

 pleura and halteres pale stramineous; sternum blackish. 

 Legs dark ocln-aceous, tarsi of hind legs rusty. 



Text-fig. 5a. 

 Odontomyia obscura, n.sp , female. 



Wings hyaline, eosta and sub-eosta dark ochraceous, other veins 

 and the pturostigma brown; third posterior vein reduced to a short 

 spur, none of them quite complete (Fig. 5b). 



Text-fig. 5b. 

 Odontomyia obscura, n.sp., female. 



Abdomen: first segment dark brownish black with greenish 

 yellow spot at each side; second segment with triangular brownish 

 black mark occupying about half the segment, the remainder 

 brownish, with obscure greenish blotches; third segment similar; 

 fourth segment chiefly dark brownish black, sides similar to seg- 

 ments 2 and 3; fifth segment chiefly dark brownish black, remain- 



