308 DIPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 



II. Marginal Cross-vein Wanting. 



289. Ceratopogon latipennis, sp.n. (PI. xiv., fig. 47). 



9- — Length of antennae 0-027 inch ... 0*68 millimetre. 



Expanse of wings.... 0-075 x 0-030 ... 1-89x0-76 



Size of body 0-060x0-020 ... 1-54x0-50 



Antennae, head, clypeus, and palpi light brown ; flagellar joints 

 of antennae more yellowish than the rest. Thorax and scutellum 

 pale dull brownish -ochreous ; metanotum brownish ; thorax 

 sparingly beset with yellowish hairs; pleurae and pectus pale 

 brownish or brownish-ochreous. Halteres white. Abdomen 

 short, brown, clothed with yellowish hairs. Legs yellow, all 

 joints slightly tipped with brown, tibiae also slightly at the base. 

 In fore legs tibia more than twice length of metatarsus. Ungues 

 very long, aculeate, deep brown. Wings very broad, longer than 

 entire body, pellucid wdth a faint brownish tint, with minute 

 yellowish pubescence chiefly in apical half ; veins pale brownish- 

 yellow, first and second longitudinal veins marked with brown 

 immediately before middle cross-vein, also first longitudinal again 

 mid- way between first spot and costa ; second longitudinal enor- 

 mously distended and brown at tip. Auxiliary vein extremely 

 pale and indistinct ; first longitudinal reaching costa opposite 

 base of fourth longitudinal fork and mid-way between base and tip 

 of second longitudinal ; latter joining costa beyond middle of 

 anterior border; indistinct trace of third longitudinal fork; 

 anterior branch of fourth longitudinal fork reaching margin at 

 apex of wing, posterior detached, or very indistinct at base, joining 

 margin mid-way between tips of anterior branches of fourth 

 and fifth forks ; latter fork broad, both branches arcuated, the 

 posterior not quite reaching the margin. 



Hah. — Berowra, N.S.W. (Masters). One specimen. 



