48 DIPTERA 



Proboscis "brown, sucker small; palpi yellow, dusted white. Some 

 spots on the inner side of the thighs not dusted. Wings hyaline, 

 light at the base, costa rust-yellow; cross-veins tinged with rust- 

 yellow, the hinder much like an S. Scales large, white. 

 Length, 5 lines. 



Genus-MICROPALPUS. 



Macquart. 

 Body broad. Palpi short, slender, and terminated by a bristle. 

 Face naked ; epistome salient. Antennae inclined, descending almost 

 to the epistome ; second joint elongated, but shorter than the third ; 

 this last prismatic, truncated at the extremity ; second division of the 

 style elongated. Eyes hairy. Abdomen oval; two bristles in the 

 middle of the second and third segments. First posterior cell 

 reaching the border of the wing before the tip. 



M. BREviGASTER. Macquurt, I.e., Supp. 1, p. 149 (1846) . 



Male. Palpi fulvous, furnished with many hairs ; face very pro- 

 minent, bordered with some yellowish-fulvous hairs, with thin whitish 

 down; front with a fulvous band, and the sides black, with white 

 down. Two first joints of the antennae fulvous; the third broad, 

 black above and at the tip, fulvous below ; second joint of the style 

 elongated. Eyes hairy. Thorax bluish-black, with thin white down 

 and black lines ; sides with thick yellow down. Abdomen short, 

 rounded, and a little speckled, with greenish-yellow tomentum ; sides 

 of the two first segments yellow; two bristles on the middle of the 

 second; belly and anus yellow. The four last joints of the tarsi 

 black ; rest of the legs red. Scales yellowish. Wings clear. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Tasmania (M. Bigot) ; New Zealand (" Reise der ' Novara' ") . 



Genus-CHLOEOaASTEE. 



Macquart. 

 Body broad. Face perpendicular, bordered at the base ; epistome 

 not projecting ; front rather narrowed in the male ; sides covered with 

 bristles. Antennae hidden, slightly elongated, not reaching the epis- 

 tome ; the second joint elongated ; the third prismatic, one and a half 

 times as long as the second ; style inflated for a third of its length. 

 Eyes naked, oval. Abdomen oval; bristles in the middle of the 

 second and third segments. First posterior cell reaching the border 

 of the wing a little before the tip. 



