BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 837 



breeding in enormous ninnhers in the irrigation-channels and 

 street- watertables. 



LoPHocEKATOMYiA CAiKNSENSis, sp.n. (Plate Ixxxii., figs. 8, 9). 



(J. Head clothed with brown, narrow-curved, and black, 

 upright-forked scales; antennse pale, apical segments and nodes 

 dark brown, plumes brown, accessory organs long on segments 

 five, eight, and ten, apices spoon-shaped on eighth, short on sixth 

 and seventh; palpi black, penultimate and apical segments with 

 black hairs beneath, thumb-like process dark brown; eyes black. 



Thorax and scutellum with brown, narrow-curved scales ; 

 scutellar bristles black, long; pleurpe brownish. 



Abdomen black-scaled, unhanded, apex bristl}^, segments three 

 to seven with faint, lateral, basal spots; venter dark. 



Wings : first fork-cell longer and narrower than the second, 

 the former nearer the base of the wing; stem of first fork-cell 

 about half the length of its cell, stem of second about two-thirds; 

 anterior basal cross-vein longer than anterior cross-vein, and 

 nearly thrice its own length distant from it; scales brown. 



Legs black, unhanded; ungues of forelegs unequal, the larger 

 uniserrate, mid-ungues unequal and simple, hind equal and simple. 



9. Similar to (J. Palpi black-scaled, firsi segment with a few 

 black bristles; clypeus black; antennae brown; ungues all equal 

 and simple; abdominal spots well defined. 



Length: ^, 3*5; 9, 4mm. 



Hab. — Q.: Cairns (F. H. 'J'aylor). 



Described from seven males and ten females, bred from larvae. 

 It is abundantly distinct from L. anuulata Taylor, and L. cylin- 

 drica Theobald. 



Two males and one female have the bases of the fork-cells 

 almost level, but there are no other difterences from the typical 

 specimens. 



LoPHOCERATOxMYIA ANNULATA Taylor. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1916, xli., p.57L 

 Ilab. — Q.'. Cairns (F. H. Taylor). 



A single specimen, bred at the same time as L. cairnsensis 

 mihi; it agrees with the type in all respects. 



