niPTF.FiA. 16") 



other two, which are broad : abdomen brotcn, a little narrower than the 

 chest and about twice its length ; tip and three short dorsal bands taunt/ ; 

 legs slender, tawny : wings almost colourless ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, 

 the latter darker towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 2^ 

 lines: of the wings (5 lines. 



Van Diemeu's Land. 



Chiromyza fulvicaput. 



Fusca, capite fulvo nitente, thoracis lateribus ad alas fulvis, antennis pedi- 

 btcsfjue piceis, femoribus apice tibiisqw basi fulvis, alis subrinereis. 



Bodi/ dark brown, clothed with tawny down : head taumy, smooth, 

 shining, flat in front : eyes black, flat in front; facets small: first and se- 

 cond joints of the feelers pitchy : chest tatcny on each side about the base 

 of the wings : abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, about twice the 

 length of the chest : legs pitchy ; thighs towards the tips and shanks at the 

 base tawny; wings pale gray; wing-ribs and veins dark tawny; poisers 

 pale tawny. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



New South Wales ? 



Fam. LEPTIDES, Meigen. 

 Genus R HAG 10, Olivier. 



Rhagio alumnus, Mas. 



Fuscuji, thoracis latenbus pectoreque fulvis, abdomine nigro sub tus fulvo, 

 antennis pedibusque fulvis, tarsispiceis, alis sub cimreis ad costam sub- 

 fuscis apice fu^co maculatis. 



Body brown : head clothed beneatli with yellow hairs: eyes bronze; 

 all the facets very small : sucker and palpi jiale tawny : feelers tawny, very 

 short; bristle black, about four times the length of the preceding joints: 

 breast and sides of the chest tawny, the former witli a slight hoary tinge: 

 abdomen tawny, linear, narrower than the chest and about twice its length ; 

 segments black above with the exception of triangular tawny spots resting on 

 the sides of the hind borders of the segments : legs slender, taumy, clothed 

 with very short black hairs ; thighs and foot-cushions pale tawny ; feet 

 pitchy, black towards the tips : wings very pale gray with a tawny tinge 



