516 AUSTRALIAN TABANID^, iii., 



DiAToMINEURA TESTACEA Macquart. 



Dipt. Exot., i., p. 103 (1838); Riuardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 (8), xvi., p.31(1915). 



Hab.—Q.: Brisbane (H. Hacker; Sept., 1916). 



DiATOMiNEURA PULCHRA Ricardo. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xvi., p.35(19l5). 

 Bab. — Q.: Toowoomba. 



DiATOMiNEURA MONTANA Ricardo. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), xvi., p.34 (1915). 

 Hab.-M.H.W.: Ebor. 



DiATOMiNEURA AURIPLBURA, sp.n. 



Length, ^, 11; ^, 11-5: length of proboscis, ^, O'o; $, 4: width 

 of head, (J, 4; 9, 4: length of wing, ^, 11-25; 9, 11 mm. 



(J. Head: face dusky, clothed with grey tomentum and long, 

 golden and scattered, black pubescence; palpi dark reddish-brown, 

 tapering to a blunt point, clothed with gr^y tomentum, with long 

 golden hairs above, and black ones on the sides and beneath, 

 with a moderately deep, lateral, apical groove, reddish in colour; 

 antennae with first two joints dull reddish-yellow, with grey 

 tomentum, and densely clothed with long, black hairs; third 

 bright reddish-yellow, apex darker, with a few black hairs at the 

 tip; eyes black, pubescence pale, dense and fairly long; ocellar 

 triangle black, with long black hairs, ocelli reddish; proboscis 

 black, long 



Thorax dark chocolate-brown, with long, Ijlack, erect pubes- 

 cence mixed with scanty yellowish hairs more pronounced on 

 the anterior and posterior borders; sides with conspicuous, long, 

 black hairs, with a patch of yellow ones at the wing-roots; scu- 

 tellum similar to thorax, with long, black pubescence; pleurae 

 densely clothed with golden hairs. 



Abdomen black; first segment with a posterior, pale reddish- 

 yellow patch on either side, second and third segments pale 

 reddish-yellow with median, black spots, that on the second about 

 as broad again as that on the third, rest of segments with well- 



