BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 805 



hairs dusky brown, with a dull somewhat cupreous reflection ; 

 more dense and forming a transverse somewhat indistinct clouding 

 between tip of auxiliary vein and base of first posterior cell, also 

 on great cross- vein and basal portion of posterior branch of fourth 

 longitudinal vein. 



■ Hah. — Lawson, Blue Mountains, N.S.W. (Masters). Six 

 specimens in January. 



324. MOLOPHILUS FEMORATUS, Sp.n. 



9. — Length of antennae 0*050 inch ... 1-27 millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0.180x0-050 .. 4-56 x 1-27 



Size of body 0-125x0023 ... 3-16x0-58 



Head, including rostrum and palpi, dark brown, densely covered 

 with brown hairs ; antennse more ochreous-brown, with long, dense, 

 brown verticils ; flagellar joints almost fusiform. Thorax greyish- 

 brown, levigate ; humeri slightly tinged with ochreous ; pleurae 

 and metathorax reddish-brown. Halteres greyish-brown, the base 

 of stem ochreous. Abdomen dark, somewhat reddish-brown, 

 clothed with tolerably long, yellowish hairs ; ovipositor short, 

 curved, brownish-ochreous. Coxae testaceous or brownish-ochreous. 

 Kemaining joints dark brown ; all the femora with a broad ring 

 of fulvous much (twice its length) before their tips ; the hind 

 femora very stout. Wings sub-hyaline (when denuded) ; veins 

 pale, densely beset with long brownish hairs ; the latter rather 

 more dense and forming an indistinct narrow transverse clouding 

 from tip of auxiliary vein to base of first posterior cell. 



Hab. — Lawson, Blue Mountains, N.S.W. (Masters). January. 



Ohs. — I have only a single specimen before me. 



325. MoLOPHiLUS Helmsi, sp.n. 



$. — Length of antennae — inch ... — millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-250x0065 ... 6 34x1-66 



Size of body 0-180x0-037 ... 4-56x0-90 



