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wing ; lower cross-vein oblique, with two extremely indistinct curves, the 

 lower inward, the upper outward. Length of the body ;U lines ; of the 

 wings 7 lines. 



New South Wales. 



SciOMYZA AUSTKALis, Fcem. 



Testacea; antenna: fulvce, articulo 3o nigra vittato ; thorax firriujineo 

 vittatus ; abdomen apice nigricans ; alee sublimpidce, antice suh- 

 fulvce. 



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

 face very slightly convex : eyes bare: mouth ferruginous ; palpi testaceous : 

 feelers tawny; third joint hardly conical, more than twice the length of the 

 first and the second, not nearly reaching the epistoma, with a black stripe 

 above; sixth black, slender, pubescent, much more than twice the length of 

 the third; chest with a ferruginous stripe on the hind part; borders of the 

 scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen blackish towards the tip : fore-thighs 

 beset with a row of bristles ; feet bl^ck towards the tips : wings almost 

 colourless, slightly tawny along the fore border; veins tawny; middle 

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

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

 bent inward in the middle. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 

 lines. 



Van Dieman's Land. 



SciOMYZA REPLETA, Fccm. 



Testacea ; vertex piceo guttatus ; thorax nigra trivittatus ; pecit(s nigro 

 maculatum ; abdomen nigrum, Jlavo bivittatum ; pedes Jtavi, femori- 

 bus tibiisque nigra bifasciatis ; aim hi/alina, fasciis quindecim 

 cinereis. 



Testaceous : crown with pitchy dots surrounding the bristles ; ej)i ■ 

 stoma slightly prominent : mouth ferruginous : third joint of the feelers 

 long-conical, reaching the epistoma, more than twice the length of the 

 secoad; sixth black, pubescent, bare towards the tip, full twice the length 



