BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 831 



plumes brown, basal lobes with white, flat scales; eyes winered; 

 palpi brown-scaled, first segment with two prominent white 

 bands, penultimate and apical segments with white, basal bands. 



'J'horax with dark brown scales, and ornamented with a lyre- 

 shaped pattern of small, white, flat scales; prothoracic lobes with 

 white scales and black bristles; scutellum with white, flat scales; 

 pleurae brown, with patches of white, flat scales. 



Abdomen brown-scaled, expanded apically, segments one to 

 six with small, median, white, basal patches; all segments, except 

 the first, with white, lateral, basal patches, prominent in the last 

 three segments; genitalia with numerous black bristles; venter 

 brown-scaled, with median, white, basal patches on the first 

 seven segments. 



Legs brown, knees white, first and second fore- and mid-tarsals 

 with basal, white banding, posterior tarsi one to three with 

 broad, white, basal bands, fourth white, with a narrow, brown, 

 apical band, fifth white; ungues of fore- and mid-legs unequal, 

 the larger with a distinct notch, hind equal and simple. 



Wings : bases of fork-cells equal, first longer and narrower 

 than second, stem of first fork-cell not quite half the length of 

 its cell, stem of second slightly more than half the length of its 

 cell, anterior basal cross- vein longer than, and twice its own 

 length from, the anterior cross-vein; vein-scales brown. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Hab.~Q.: Cairns (F. H. Taylor). 



Described from a single specimen, bred from a collection of 

 larvae. It is abundantly distinct from all other Australian 

 species of Mimeteomyia. 



MlMETEOMYIA DODDI, Sp.n. 



(J. Head covered with black scales, a median row of white, flat 

 ones, and white, flat ones laterally; antennas brown, plumes brown, 

 internodes pale; palpi brown, penultimate segment basally banded 

 white, apical segment white-scaled; eyes silvery. 



Thorax covered with dusky-brown scales; scutellum with brown 

 scales; pleurae brown, with patches of white, flat scales. 



Abdomen covered with coppery-brown scales, first segment 



