890 DIPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 



cell, usually closed, sometimes opened posteriorly ; great cross- 

 vein joining exactly at inner end of fourth posterior cell which is 

 close up to inner end of discal cell ; sixth and seventh longitudinal 

 veins almost straight. 



Hah. — Sydney (Masters & Skuse); Mount Kosciusko (4-5000ft.), 

 N.S.W. (Helms) ; one S2)ecimen in Coll. Australian Museum. 

 September to March. 



Ohs. — Apparently distinct from -4. congrua, Walk. Six specimens 

 only before me. 



385. Amalopis congrua, Walker. 



Limnohia congrua, Walk., List Dipt. Brit. Mus. I. p. 42, 1848 ; 

 Amalojns congrua, O.-Sacken, Mon. Dipt. N. Amer. IV. p. 264, 

 1869. 



" Fulva, tlwrace fusco ti^ivittato, abdomine fusco fasciato, 

 antennis fuscis, pedibus fulvisy coxis femoribusque basi 2^(^^^i(^is, 

 alis subfulvis. 



'' Body tawny ; eyes bronze colour ; feelers and palpi brown, 

 the former yellow at the base ; chest with three brown stripes, 

 the middle one broad and long ; hind borders of the segments of 

 the abdomen brown, and this colour occupies the whole of the 

 segments towards the tip, except the last, which, with its append- 

 ages, is bright tawny ; legs dull tawny ; hips and base of the 

 thighs pale tawny ; wings with a very slight tawny tinge ; veins 

 brown ; poisers whitish-yellow, their knobs darker. Length of 

 of the body, 4 lines ; of the wings, 9 lines. 



Hob. — Swan River, W. Australia. 



Obs. — Unknown to me. 



