50 AUSTRALIAN STRATIOMYIID.E, 



Ophiodesma flavipalpis, Macquart. 



PL VIII., fig. 1. 



Odontomyia flavipalpis, Macquart, Dipt. Exot., suppl. 4, 

 1850, p. 49. 



Ophiodesma pin pal pis, White, P.L.S. N.S.W., xli., 1916, 

 p. 89. Text fig. 7. 



Hah. — Eleven specimens in the Macleay Museum are 

 labelled from Queensland, New South Wales, and Western 

 Australia ; the species has already been recorded from Vic- 

 toria,, and therefore it is probable that it will be found 

 throughout the whole of the mainland of Australia. Two> 

 specimens, one of each sex, were taken at Blackheath, New 

 South Wales, during November, 1919. 



Tribe Abavini. 



Genus Anacanthella, Macquart. 



Anacanthella, Macquart, Dipt. Exot., Suppl. 5, 1855, p. 38. 

 Id., Enderlein, Zool. Anzeiger, xliv., 1914, p. 23. 



Id., White, P.L.S. N.S.W., xli., 1916, p. 80. 



Tvpe- — Anacanthella splendens, Macquart Adelaide. 



Status. — This genus is placed in this position bv En- 

 derlein, who makes interesting though speculative remarks 

 concerning it. No recent specimens of the species are 

 known. 



Anacanthella splendens, Macquart. 



Anacanthella splendens, Macquart, Dipt. Exot., suppl. 5, 

 1855, p. 39, PI. i., fig. 8. Id., White, P.L.S. 

 N.S.W., xli., 1916, p. 80. 



Tribe Antissini. 

 Key to the Genera of the Antissini. 



1. The scutellum with four or six normal spines; the male 



with the costa of the wings greatly inflated; the 



antennae as long as the head. Lecomyia. 



The scutellum with six rudimentary spines; the costa 



of the Avings normal. 2. 



2. The antenna? much shorter than the head. Antissa. 

 The antennae twice as long as the head. Antissella. 



Genus Lecomyia, White. 



Lecogoster, White, Proc. Hoy. Soc. Tasm., 1914, p. 53 (pre- 

 occupied). Id., White, P.L.S. N.S.W., xli, 1916, p. 

 79. 



