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PELECOTJTIYNCHFf! FUSC'OXKlKi;, Wnl/.-Pf. 



List. Dipt., i. (1848), p. 192 [? Silvins] et. v., Supj)!. 1. (Ls51). p. 267, 

 [Dasybasis] ; Ricardo, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), v. (1910), p. 107. 

 //t,/,.l_AV()o,U'(ii-a, Now Snntli Wales. 



P KL KCui; II V xciirs x 1 1 ; i; \vk n n i .--, lu'rnrdd. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), v. (1910), p. 405. 



Oh:'. — This appears to be a widely distributed species being fonnd 

 from Southern Queensland to Tasmania. 



Ilnh. — Kboi',Ne\v Soutli Wales. (Collector and donor. — R. .1. Tillyard); 

 Stradbroke Island, Queensland. (Collector. — J. C. Bridwell). 



EUKI'HOI'SIS ClXETiKA, Rli'Uvdo. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), xvi. (1915), p. 2(3. 



(J. Length, 11 ; width of head, 4.5 ; length of wing, 10; proboscis, 

 4 mm. 



Lower third of eyes with small facets ; antenna* blackisli-brown, first 

 two joints with long black hairs ; palpi black with second joint slightly 

 longer thau the first, ending in a blunt point, pubescence black, a dirty 

 white at base of first joint. 



Thorax. — Lateral boi'ders with long black pubescence, and long white 

 hairs from wing roots to scutellum. 



Ahdonieti. — First segment clothed with grey pubescence, sides of 

 second to sixth segments with apical gi'ey pubescence. 



0/w. — A very distinct species, the long stem of the first posterior cell 

 and the large stigma being very distinctive. 



Hah. — King George Sound, Western Australia. (Collector. — 

 G. Masters). 



ErEPHOI'SIS XEOIlUCOLOi;, sp. vor. 



$. Length, 10.5-11; width of head, 4; length of wing, 10.5; 

 proboscis, 5.5-6 mm. 



A small species with black thorax, brown abdomen with median 

 stripe; the cross-veins shaded brown and with brown legs. 



Head. — Face convex, i^eddish-brown, cheeks darker with grey 

 tomentum, pubescence black ; front black, tomentum ashen, vertex about 

 half as wide as base, pubescence black, no frontal callus ; eyes covered 

 with dense pale pubescence ; antennae red, first two joints paler than third 

 with long black pubescence, apex of third black ; palpi red, second joint 

 concave and longer than first, pubescence black : beard dense, creamy- 

 white ; proboscis long, black. 



Thorax. — Black, clothed with mixed, erect black and scattei^ed 

 appressed golden hairs, lateral borders with long black and cream colored 

 haixs and pale ones behind the wing roots ; scutellum similar to thorax ; 

 pleui'se black, covei'ed with pale pubescence. 



Ahdonteii. — Reddish-brown, the fourth to the apical segments blackish, 

 segmentations pale, segments one to three with median square black spots 

 not reaching the posterior borders, all segments with traces of median 

 pale apical hairs, pubescence black, golden on the segmentations and at 

 the sides ; venter reddish -bi'own, pubescence yellowish. 



