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AUSTRALIAN STBATIOMYIID.E, 



Odontomyia opertan'ea, White. 



Text figs. 5, 6, and 7. 



Odontomyia opertanea, White, P.L.S. N.S.W., xli., 1916, 

 p. 93. Id., Hardy, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1917, 

 p. 62. 



Status. — I am indebted to Mr. C. E. Ccle for the loan 

 of a specimen of this species from Ringwood, Victoria, and 

 this is identical with the Tasmanian specimens recorded 

 in 1917. 



Description. — The following description is taken from 

 the Tasmanian specimens, and is supplementary to White's 

 description : — 



Female. The antenna? are longer than in the other 

 Australian species; the two basal joints are equal, and to- 

 gether are almost as long as the third. The scutellar 

 spines are small, inconspicuous, and placed under the 

 scutellum instead of on the apical border. 



It is a black species with slight tracings of golden 

 torn en turn on the head and the thorax, a small yellowish 

 area round the oral opening, the legs and wing veins yel- 

 lowish, the abdomen green ventrally, and dorsally border- 

 ed very narrowly green, which colour shows signs of turn- 

 ing yellow in places, in addition to which there is a pair of 

 very small lateral spots confluent with the border on the 

 2nd, 3rd r id 4th segments, and the apex of the halteres 

 green. 



Length. — 7-8.5 mm. 



Hah. — Tasmania: Cradle Mountain, two females, 17th 

 January, 1917. Victoria: Ringwood, one female. New 

 South Wales : Blue Mountains, one female in the Macleav 



