BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 881 



thorax, coxae, and trochanters fulvous, opaque. Halteres black. 

 Abdomen black, densely covered (sparingly on venter and first 

 superior segment) with very pale yellowish sericeous hairs ; 

 ovipositor brown. Legs brown ; tibise ringed with white in the 

 middle, the ring on the fore pair narrow and somewhat blurred ; 

 tarsi with the first joint fulvous at the base. Wings fuscous ; 

 veins brown ; stigma slightly darker than wing-membrane. 

 Auxiliary vein joining first longitudinal vein opposite inner end 

 of second sub-marginal cell; marginal cross-vein situated about mid- 

 way between tip of auxiliary vein and tip of first longitudinal ; 

 inner end of first sub-marginal cell immediately beyond inner end 

 of second sub-marginal ; small cross-vein nearly half the length of 

 basal portion of third longitudinal vein ; second posterior cell 

 rather more than half the length of third posterior ; great cross- 

 vein joining at middle of discal cell. 



Hah. — Near Sydney, N.S.W. (Masters). A single specimen. 



Ohs. — Westwood described the above as a N. American insect, 

 and Baron Osten-Sacken (Mon. Dipt. N". Amer. I. p. 13, 1862), 

 doubted the probability that the locality given was the correct one. 

 The describer points out that " the label attached to the type 

 specimen in the Oxford Museum is in the hand writing of Mr. 

 Hope, and is clearly written N.A." Since the insect has only 

 been found in Australia we must conclude that Hope meant N. 

 Australia and not N. America by the letters on the label. 



378. Gynoplistia Macquarti, sp. n. 



Gynojolistia Macquarti n.nov, for G. cyanea (prceoc.) Macquart, 

 Dipt. Exot. 4th Suppl. p. 13, 1850. 



"2' — Cyanea nitida. Pedibus nigris ; femoi^ibus hasi rufis ; 

 tibiis posticis anmdo albo. Alis fusco-maculatis.^^ 



Body of a blackish violet-blue, shining, with slight green 

 reflections. Rostrum, proboscis, palpi and antennae black. 

 Pleurae with a white down. Abdomen with tawny oviduct. 



