860 DIPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 



" 9. — Fuscaj obscura ; caput fulvo-fusciim, angustum ; oculi 

 obscure fusci ; antennae fuscse, capite paullo longiores ; thorax 

 subtus et postice fulvus; abdomen obscure fuscum, longum, gracile ; 

 femora fere omnia tibiae que basi et apice pallide f usca ; tarsi apice 

 et ungues nigri ; alae subhyalinae, iridescentes ; costa f usca, basi 

 pallid ior, maculis plurimis subhyalinis ; subcostam maculae 4 

 majores sub fuscse; squamulas et nervi fusca ; nervi omnes longi- 

 tudinales punctis fuscis ornati ; nervulus transversus discoidalis 

 fusco limbatus ; halteres pallide fulvi, apice fusci." Corp. long. 7 

 lin. ; alar. 10 lin. 



Sah. — New Holland. 



365. LiMNOPHiLA BASALTS, Walker. 



Limnohia basalts, Walk., Ins. Saund, Dipt. p. 434, 1856, 



(Div. E. Meig, Syst. Beschr. 11. p. 125, pi. 6, fig. 2). 



"Nigra, nitens ; alae nigricantes, venis nigris," 



"^. — Black, shilling. Oviduct short, nearly cylindrical. Wings 

 blackish ; veins and halteres black. Length of the body 5 lines ; 

 of the wings 10 lines." 



Hab. — Van Diemen's Land. 



Genus 23. Gynoplistia, Westwood. 



Gynojylistia, Westw., Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag. VI. p. 280, 

 1835; Gynoiolistes [nee Anojylistes^ Westw., Zool. Journ., V., p. 

 447 (No. 20, 1835) ; Gynoplistia, Macquart, S. a B. 11. Suppl. p. 

 649, 1835; Dipt. Exot. L p. 43, 1838; Variegata, Bigot, Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr. 1854, p. 456 ; Cloyiiophora, Schiner, Wien. Ent. 

 Monatschr. 1866 ; "Novara" Exp. Dipt. p. 40, 1868 ; Ccenarthria, 

 Thomson, "Eugenia" Exp. Dipt. p. 445, pi. ix. f. 1, 1868 ; Gyno- 

 2)listia, O.-Sack., Mon. Dipt. N. Araer. lY. App. II. p. 331, 1869; 

 Westw., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 369. pi. xviii. figs. 5-6-7 ; 

 O.-Sack., Studies, II. p. 210, 1887. 



