BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. 467 



bristles ; raetanotum chestnut-brown, with a patch of white, 

 curved, and fiat scales on the posterior third. 



Abdomen brown, first and second segments very hairy, remain- 

 ing segments more or less hairy; first segment with mixed pale 

 and dark brown scales, the second and third segments with a few 

 white scales at their bases, seventh segment with white basal 

 banding, segments two to seven with white, lateral, basal spots; 

 venter white-scaled. 



Legs brown, femora, tibiye, and first tarsals mottled with white 

 scales, knee-spot pale; ungues equal and uniserrate 



Wings with the costa subcostal, and first longitudinal veins 

 clothed with dark brown scales; first fork-cell longer and narrower 

 than the second, base of the former nearer the base of the wing 

 than that of the latter; stem of the first fork-cell one-third the 

 length of its cell, stem of the second one-half the length of the 

 cell; anterior basal cross-vein longer than the anterior cross-vein, 

 and about one-fifth its own length distant from it. Halteres 

 with pale stems and dusky knobs. — ^ 



Length, 6*5 mm. 



i^a6.— Wedge Bay, Tasmania (F. M. Littler). 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES XXXIV. -XXXVIL 



[Figs.1,2, 6, 8, 11 to 18, and 20 (X 16); figs. 3, 4, 5, 7,9, 10 and 19 ( x 40).] 



Plate xxxiv. 



Fig. 1. — Armiqe7-es ohturhans{^'si\kQv) ? ; head. 

 Fig.2. — Armigeres obturhans (Walker) 9 ; wing. 

 Fig, 3. — Stegomyia Scutellaria (Walker) i ; head. 

 Fig. 4. — Stegomyia sc-«<e//arw (Walker) S ; wing. 



Plate XXXV. 



Fig. 5. — Stegomyia hilli, n.sp., 9 ; wing. 



Fig. 6. —Scutomyia notoscripta (Skuse) i ; head. 



Fig.7. — Scutomyia notoscripta (Skuse) i ; wing. 



Fig. 8. — ^EdimorpJms australis var. darwini, n.var., S ; wing. 



Fig.9.— ilfac/mya tremida Theobald, 9 ; wing. 



