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tomentum ; underside blaclvish. Legs armed with bristles, 

 ■which are black, on the fore tarsi some yellow ones ; coxse 

 red, with white tomentum and long white hairs and one 

 black bristle below; femora black above, with white pubes- 

 cence, below red, with long white hairs ; tibise yellowish red 

 on the outside, black on the inside, with white pubescence ; 

 underside of fore tarsi with yellow pubescence ; tarsi reddish, 

 covered with white pubescence. Wings hyaline, brownish 

 at apex and on postei'ior border; the small transverse vein 

 oblique, about the middle of the discal cell ; the fourth 

 posterior cell and the anal closed ; the transverse veins 

 closing the discal and fourth posterior cell are not quite in 

 a straight line. Halteres reddish yellow. 



Stenopogon, Loew. 

 Linn. Ent. ii. p. 453 (1847). 



The genus is distinguished by the very narrow /ace, with 

 a keel-shaped tubercle, the face becoming narrower still at 

 antennae, the moustache reaching nearly to the antennae. 

 Wings with the first posterior cell more or less narrower at 

 border, the fourth closed or open. In the Australian species 

 the front posterior cell is hardly narrower at border. 



The following species are recorded from Australia : — 



Stenopog-on elongatus, Macq., Dipt. Exot. Suppl. 1, p. 194, pi. vii. fip'. 6 

 (1844), et Suppl. 2, p. 50 [Dasj/pogon'} (184G). — Dasypoc/o7iJ(avifacies, 



p. . ,, _ , . , , . ,,... ., , , 



Dasypogon lanatus, $ , Walker, I. c. p. .317, et part -vi. Suppl. 2, 

 p. 486 (1854) ; Kertesz, /. c. \_A7icylor7-hynchus] (1909). Dasypoqon 

 thalpim, J , Walker, I. c. p. 317, et part vi. Suppl. 2, p. 481 ('l854) ; 

 Kertesz, /. c. [AncghrrJu/nchus] (1909). Dasgpogon ogave, Walker, 

 I. c. p. 317, et pt. vi. Suppl. 2, p. 480 (1854). Stenopogonfraternits, 

 Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (5) viii. p. 421 (1878). 

 Stenopogon nicoteles, S, Walker, List Dipt. pt. ii. p. 320 (1849), et 

 pt. vi. Suppl. 2, p. 481 [Basypogori] (1854); Kertesz, Cat. Dipt. 

 ■i^_ ir /,p. 102 \_Ancylorrhijnclius] (1909). 



Stenopogon elongatus, Macq. 



Dcmjpogonjlavifacies, 2 , Macq. 

 Dasgpogon digentia, (^ , Walker. 

 Daspogon lanatus, 5 , Walker. 

 Dasypogon tha^nus, c? , Walker. 

 Dasypogon agave, J , W^alker. 

 Stenopogon fraternus, Bigot. 



