462 AUSTRALIAN STRATIOMYID^. 



hairs and narrow silvery scales, the latter giving the appearance of 

 silvery dusting; sternum clothed with silvery hairs; the entire 

 thorax and abdomen minutely punctured. Wings hyaline, princi- 

 pal veins thickened, the three posterior veins all reaching the wing 

 border. Halteres with brownish stem and stramineous knob (Fig. 

 7c). 



Legs: forelegs black, ex- 

 cepting joints and proximal 

 ends of tibia?, which are 

 brownish, tarsi densely cloth- 

 ed with short, stout, black 



Text-fig. 7c. hairs; mid-legs black, except- 



Wnlhivi a danmiii, n.sn., female. • • c c i j.t 



1 ' mg apices of femora and the 



first four joints of the tarsi, which are ochraceous, fifth joint and 



claws dark, tarsi clothed with short, stout, black hairs; hind-legs 



similar to mid-legs. Pulvelli and empodia large. 



Abdomen wide (275), wider than long, clothed with black hairs 

 (silvery in some lights), a conspicuous patch of silvery scales on 

 the dorsum of the fifth segment, except in the median line, similar 

 but fewer scales on dorsum of fourth segment, nearly absent from 

 third segment, a smooth bare patch in the middle of the anterior 

 margin of the fourth segment, wider and occupying the whole of 

 the middle of the fifth segment. Genitalia conspicuous. 



^. Similar to 9. Total length, 3; wing, 3. 



Head wide (1-25), wider than prescutum (115), frons wide 

 (•320). 



Thorax 1-30 at insertion of wings. 



Legs similar to 9' excepting that the tarsi of mid-legs are 

 ochraceous. Halteres brownish, knob white. 



Hah. — Northern Territory: Darwin, June, 1918. Both species 

 were taken on a citrus leaf. 



(Note. — This genus has not been recognised hitherto in Aus- 

 tralia.) 



[Printed off, 27th September, 1919.] 



