::i98 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



SCIOMYZA LINEATA, Foem. 



Fulva ; antenna nigra, basi fulva;; thorax nigro mttalus ; abdominis 

 segmenta marginibus posticis nigris ; femora tibiaque apice tarsiquc 

 nigra ; alee subfulvce. 



Tavvuy : head and cLe^t beset with a few black bristles ; crown flat ; 

 fiontalia yellow, slender ; face very slightly convex ; a blackish spot on 

 each side between the feeler and the eye ; eyes bare : mouth pitchy ; palpi 

 tawny: feelers black ; first and second joints tawny; third almost linear, 

 rather deep, rounded at the tip, not nearly reaching the epistoina, rather 

 more than twice the length of the first and second; sixth slender, pubes- 

 cent, much more than twice the length of the third : chest with a blackish 

 stripe : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest ; hind borders of 

 the segments black : fore-thighs with a row of bristles ; feet and tips of the 

 thighs and of the shanks black: wings slightly tawny; veins tawny ; mid- 

 dle cross-vein and tip of the second longitudinal vein at an almost equal 

 distance from the base of the wing ; lower cross-vein slightly oblique, al- 

 most straight. Length of the body 2| lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



New South Wales. 



SCIOMVZA TESTACEA, FOBm. 



Testacea ; antennce fulvie , arliculo 3o nigro vitfato ; thorax nigro trivilta- 

 tus ; abdomen apice nigrum ; alee subftihxe, margine postico sublim- 

 pido. 



Testaceous : head and chest beset with a few black bristles ; crown 

 flat; frontalia yellow, slender; face slightly convex: eyes bare: mouth 

 pitchy; palpi tawny : feelers tawny ; third joint slightly conical, more than 

 twice the length of the first and of the second, not nearly reaching the 

 epistoma, with a black stripe above ; fourth, fifth, and sixth, black ; sixth 

 slender, pubescent, nearly thrice the length of the third : chest with three 

 slender black stripes: abdomen almost oval, a little broader and shorter 

 than the chest, black towards the tip : fore-thighs beset with a row of 

 bristles ; feet pitchy towards the tips : wings slightly tawny, almost colour- 

 less along the hind border ; veins tawny ; middle cross-vein and tip of the 

 second longitudinal vein at an almost equal distance from the base of the 



