BY E. W. FERGUSON AND MARGUERITE HENRY. 837 



DlATOMINEURA PULGIDA Sp.n. 



A dark reddish brown species allied to D. testacea. 



Female. Length, 12 mm.; width across eyes, 4 mm.; wing, 

 11 mm. 



Head. Reddish brown, face clothed with greyish tomentum. 

 Beard white . Proboscis short, scarcely longer than head . Palpi 

 with second joint elongate, slender, somewhat club-shaped at 

 the base, twice as long as the first. Antennae testaceous, the 

 first two segments reddish brown with black hairs at apices. 

 Front dark reddish brown, slightly wider at vertex than an- 

 teriorly, clothed with greyish tomentum and with moderately 

 dense brownish hair; callus elongate, narrow. Eyes clothed with 

 whitish hairs. 



Thorax. Dark reddish brown, shiny, shoulders slightly darker, 

 clothed towards side and posteriorly with greyish tomentum ; tufts 

 of long whitish hairs present posteriorly on each side above wing 

 roots, scanty in type but forming a distinct fringe on each 

 side in another specimen; pleurae reddish, clothed with greyish 

 tomentum, and long white hairs. Scutellum similar to thorax. 



Abdomen dark reddish "brown, moderately densely clothed with 

 fine depressed reddish pubescence. Under surface ferruginous 

 with fine depressed pubescence of similar colour and whitish 

 hairs at the side of each segment. 



Legs testaceous. 



Wings clear, faintly clouded brownish yellow along the fore 

 border, stigma yellowish brown, veins brownish, first posterior 

 cell open; no appendix present. 



This species is allied to D. testacea and D. abdominalis but 

 readily distinguished from both by its darker colour and shiny 

 appearance. Specimens occurred from November 19th to March 

 3rd, never very numerous; most specimens were obtained in 

 November; all specimens were taken in the bush. 



DlATOMINEURA MONTANA Ricardo. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xvi., p. 34 (1915). 



Only two specimens were received, one November 25th and 

 the other February 12th. They are identical with a specimen 

 from Victoria compared with the type in the British Museum. 



DlATOMINEURA INFLATA Ricardo. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xvi. (1915). 



Abundant in February and the beginning of March, this fly 



