126 AUSTEALIAN RHYPHID.E AND LEPTID^ (dIPTERA), 



4 A small species from N.S.W., 3 mm. long. vexans. 



A larger species 5 mm. long from Tasmania. 



tahaniformh. 



Spaniopah fdhaniforniis, White. 



White, P. & P. Roy. Soc. Tasm., pg. 44, text fig. 2, 1914. 

 Ferguson, J. & P. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlix., pg. 238, PI. 

 26, fig. 11, 1915. 



Hab. Tasmania. The only specimen taken, since the 

 original 13 from Freycinet's Peninsula in 1914, was cap- 

 tured by Mr. C. Cole at Wedge Bay, during Easter, 1917. 



Spaniopxix verdns, Ferg. 



Ferguson, J. & P. Rov. Soc. N.S.W. xlix., pg. 238, pi. 26. 

 figs. 6 and 10, 1915. 

 Hab. New South Wales: — Heathcote, June, 1917, and 

 Thirroul (Sublime Point), 30th March, 1918. 2 specimens. 



S pa mopxis rlchindi, Ferg. 



Ferguson, J. & P. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. , xlix., pg. 240, pi. 26, 

 figs. 5 and 9, 1915. 

 Hab. New South Wales: — 2 specimens, Thirroul (Sub- 

 lime Point), 30th and 31st March, 1918,. 



S pa II i(ip<l-'< 1)1(1 i(j in ipenn's, Ferg. 



Ferguson, J. & P. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlix., pg. 239, pi. 26. 

 figs. 2, 4, and 8, 1915. 

 Hab. New South Wales: — Heathcote, June, 1917, 

 about 40 specimens, very common at the bottom of a 

 gully; Hornsby, June, 1917. 



S pa niopiiia loiif/iruriiix^ Ferg. 



Ferguson, J. & P. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlix., pg. 242, pi. 26, 

 figs 1, 3, and 7, 1915. 



Hab. New South Wales: — ^Heathcote, June, 1917, 3 

 specimens. 



Genus Austroleptis, gen. nov. 



Antennae 7 jointed, composed of two more or less equal 

 basal joints, both about as wide as long, third swollen and 

 much compressed, and a terminal complex of four closely 

 fitting but distinct joints, which under a coddington lens 

 often looks like only three. The venation is soiwewhat 



