BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 299- 



279. Ceratopogon subnitidus, sp.n. (PI. xiii., fig. 36). 



§. — Length of antennae 0*015 inch ... 0'38 millimHre. 



Expanse of wings 0-042x0017 ... 1-06x0-42 



Size of body 0'050 x 0-015 ... 1-27x0-38 



Black, sub-nitidous ; pleurse very deep brown ; legs brown, tarsi 

 yellowish. Thorax with brownish hairs. Halteres brown or 

 brownish. Abdomen short, robust, clothed with brown hairs ; 

 lamellte of ovipositor black. In fore legs tibia nearly twice the 

 length of metatarsus. Wings about length of entire body, 

 hyaline, with a rich brassy reflection, densely covered with a 

 brownish pubescence ; costal, first two longitudinal veins, middle 

 cross-vein, and basal portion of fourth longitudinal brownish. 

 Auxiliary vein indistinguishable ; first longitudinal vein joining 

 costa at a point somewhat more than mid-way between origin of 

 second longitudinal vein and tip of costa ; second longitudinal 

 reaching costa immediately before middle of anterior margin, and 

 opposite base of fifth longitudinal fork ; inner marginal cell 

 narrow ; very indistinct trace of third longitudinal fork ; fork 

 of fourth longitudinal pale, with a short petiole, anterior branch 

 nearly straight, reaching margin at apex of wing ; posterior 

 branch reaching margin at a point somewhat nearer tip of 

 anterior branch of fifth longitudinal fork ; both branches of 

 latter nearly straight, anterior scarcely twice the length of 

 posterior. 



Eah. — Berowra, N.S.W. (Masters). 



280. Ceratopogon minusculus, sp.n. (PI. xiii., fig. 37). 



(J. — Length of antennae 0*015 inch ... 0*38 millimetre. 



Expanse of wings 0*035 x O'OU ... 0*88 x 0*27 



Size of body 0-035x0*010 ... 0*88x0*25 



Black, opaque ; scutellum and club of halteres ochreous-yellow ; 

 legs cinereous. Thorax glabrous. Abdomen about J longer 

 than thorax, somewhat brownish-black, apparently glabrous. In 



