36 IIIK UII'TKRA ItKAC'HVcEKA OF TASMANIA, 



with black in the centre; femora black above, red" 

 beneath : tibiae dark red or reddish-black ; wings clouded 

 with black across the centre and bearing a conspicuous- 

 black stigma. 



Length. Male, 10.5-11 mm.; female, 11.5 mm. 

 Hab. Bagdad Valley. 



Fig. 20. Head of Lonchorhynchui actuows, 



Male. Head much produced in front, with long white 

 pubescence beneath ; face black. Proboscis largo and 

 thick, projecting straight forwards, reaching as far as the 

 second joint of the antennae. Palpi small, black, spoon- 

 shaped. Antenna? black, a little .shorter than the head ; 

 the first joint about three times the length of the second, 

 the third about the same length as the first and second 

 together, expanded in the middle, and tapering to a very 

 minute sharply-pointed style. Eves bare, more widely 

 separated than in /.. nitidifrons. Front black, very broad, 

 wrinkled where it approaches the antenna?, and bearing 

 black pubescence. Thorax black, indistinctly striped and 

 mottled with grey, and bearing short black pubescence in 

 front and a little short white pubescence behind ; 8CU- 

 ti Hum black, with two long black terminal bristles. Abdo- 

 men long, black, nearly parallel-sided, with hindmargins 

 of second, third, and fourth segments white, interrupted 

 with black in the centre, tin' whole bearing sparse white 

 pubescence-, genitalia long ami slender. Legs with the 

 femora black above, red beneath, the anterior pair with 

 8 short, and posterior pair with a long, black stripe on 

 the under side ; tibiae dark red or reddish-black above, 

 red beneath; tarsi black, with' basal half of first joint 

 red; tibia? with black bristles. Wings clouded with black 

 across the centre, darkest round the discal cell, and with 

 a conspicuous black stigma; base and tips of wings clear. 



Fenuilr resembles the male very closely, but the eyes 

 are slightly more separated, the front browner, the abdo- 

 men more pointed, the legs rather lighter, and the ante- 

 rior femora with an isolated black spot below; colouring 

 of abdomen and wings as in the male. 



