834: DIPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 



* Abdomen yellow, brownish-black at apex. Wings fuscous 

 at apex. 



Trentepolilij Wied., I. p. 551. Sumatra. 



** Abdomen entirely fuscous-black. Wings with the apex 

 and a middle transverse fascia of fuscous. 

 exornata, Bergr. Ent. Tidsk., 1881, p. 135. Africa, 

 b. Discal cell closed. Tarsi white. 



albitarsis, Dolesch., II., Bijdr., p. 15. Java. 



347. Trentepohlia Australasia, sp.n. (PI. xxii., fig. 17). 



(J. — Length of antennae — inches ... — millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-250 x 0-055 ... 6-34 x 1-39 



Size of body 0-220 x 0-030 ... 5*58 x 0'76 



In the single specimen before me the head is wanting, and the 

 thorax has been almost entirely destroyed by the pin. Thorax 

 apparently ochreous. Hal teres ochreous. Abdomen umber-brown, 

 the first two or three segments ochreous beneath. Legs about 

 35 mm. in length. Coxae ochreous. Femora and tibiae brown ; 

 the femora white at apex (about 1 mm.), and the tibiae very 

 slightly white at base and considerably tipped (about 3 mm.) at 

 apex. Tarsi yellowish, the basal half of the metatarsus deepening 

 into brown. Wings sub-hyaline, tinted with brownish between 

 the auxiliary and first longitudinal veins for the whole of their 

 length ; beautiful violaceous and cupreous reflections ; veins dark 

 brown. Auxiliary veins reaching costa opposite anterior extremity 

 of marginal cross-vein, and separated a distance equal to the length 

 of the latter from tip of first longitudinal vein ; sub-costal cross-vein 

 situated some distance before tip of auxiliary vein, and opposite 

 posterior extremity of great cross-vein ; first longitudinal vein 

 extending beyond marginal cross-vein a distance equal to the 

 length of latter ; second longitudinal originating at J the length 

 of wing ; prsefurca a little longer than distance between origin of 



