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Thorax dorsum black, shining, punctured with bases of sparse 

 short whitish hairs; humeral and supra-alar calli red-brown; pleural 

 areas blackish, shining. Wing hyaline, granular, veins red-brown; 

 halter stem brown, poUinose, knob brown, granular, elongate, pointed. 

 Legs with femora black-brown, remainder lighter. 



Abdomen second segment surface wrinkled, with blue-black 

 metallic sheen, remaining segments black, surface wTinkled, with 

 metallic sheen, posterior margins white. Ninth tergum black-brown, 

 shorter than high; tenth segment extending well beyond; aedeagus 

 flanked by two short parameres; see figure for details. 



Female. — Head black, elongate, flattened; eyes black; frons shining, 

 slightly broader than the ocellar tubercle, thinly covered with short 

 hairs; back of head silvery pilose above including the back of the 

 ocellar tubercle; postgenae shining; oral opening surrounded by silvery 

 pile; ocellar tubercle shining, with a few anteriorly directed hairs, ocelli 

 red-brown. Antennae black, granular; third segment twice as long as 

 first two combined; see figure for details. 



Thorax dorsum black, shining, punctured with the bases of short 

 golden hairs, humeral and supra-alar calli red-brown; scutellum black, 

 polished; pleural areas black, shining. Wing hyaline, brown granular, 

 veins brown; halter stem brown, pollinose, knob brown, granular, 

 elongate, pointed. Legs black, tibiae and tarsi with golden hairs on 

 ventral surfaces. 



Abdomen black, rough, with metallic reflection, white posterior 

 membrane between segments. Eighth segment black, very hairy; 

 sternum spoonlike on midline, ninth tergum with much ventrally 

 directed hair. 



Length: Male body 4.7 mm., wing 3 mm.; female body 5 mm., 

 wing 3.2 mm. 



Type-locality: Lees Spring, A.C.T., Australia; emerged 22 Novem- 

 ber 1960 (L F. B. Common and M, S. Upton) reared from bark of 

 Eucalyptus. 



Holotype: Male (CSIRO). 



Allotype: Female Kew, New South Wales; 12 October 1962 

 (D. H. CoUess) (CSIRO). 



201. Neopseudatrichia mariaensis (G. H. Hardy), new combination 



Figure 195 (after Hardy) 



Pseudatrichia mariaensis G. H. Hardy, 1933, p. 419. 



The type and allotype of this species have been lost. The species is 

 probably restricted to the Island of Tasmania. 

 Length: Male, female body 5 mm., wing ?. 



