BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 855 



ffab.—Gos(ov(\, N.S.W., and Middle Harbour, Sydney (Skuse) ; 

 Mount Kosciusko, N.S.W., 5000 ft. (Helms), one S2)ecime7(, in 

 Coll. Australian Mitseum. 



Ohs. — I have taken only two specimens of this species. 



361. LiMNOPHILA LEVIDENSIS; Sp.n. (PI. XXII., fig. 27). 



$. — Length of antennae 0-030 inch ... -7 6 millimetre. 



Expanse of wings 0-220 x 0-045 ... 5-58 xM3 



Size of body 0-180x0-025 ... 4-56x0-62 



9. — Length of antennae 0-035 inch ... 0*88 millimetre. 



Expanse of wings 0-250 x 0-060 .., 6-34 x 1-54 



Size of body 0-190 x 0-030 ... 4-81 x 0-76 



Head black, with a grey bloom ; rostrum, palpi and antennae 

 black ; basal joints of latter brown ; flagellar joints sub-cylindrical, 

 with very short verticils. Thorax greyish-ochreous or light 

 brownish, mesonotum brownish in the 9, levigate ; transverse 

 suture brown in the middle. Halteres pale, the club infuscated. 

 Abdomen olive-brown, the venter paler ; genitalia ochreous ; ^ 

 forceps of ordinary type, terminal appendages black ; 9 ovipositor 

 long, slender, slightly arcuated. Coxse ochreous or pale brownish. 

 Femora deep olive-brown ; tibiae and tarsi black. Wings with a 

 greyish tint ; veins dark ; stigma greyish. Auxiliary vein terminating 

 opposite or a little before inner end of second sub-marginal cell ; 

 sub-costal cross-vein considerably before its tip, that is, a distance 

 at least equal to great cross- vein ; prsef urea tolerably long, nearly 

 straight ; first sub-marginal cell as long as prsefurca, with a short 

 petiole ; marginal cross-vein indistinct, cutting stigma much nearer 

 tip of first longitudinal vein than to inner end of first sub-marginal 

 cell ; inner ends of second sub-marginal and first posterior cells in 

 one line ; small cross-vein scarcely arcuated ; discal cell elongated, 

 the great cross-vein situated considerably beyond its inner end ; 

 fifth, sixth and seventh longitudinal veins more or less arcuated 

 towards the tip. 

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