62 NOTES ON TASMANIAN DIPTERA, 



0. stricfa., Ei'. — I am unceitain concerning the proiDer 

 place for this species. White also left it for 

 further consideration. 



0. sydneyensis, Schin., and. Inrclineri, Jaen, are only 

 known to me by name. I have not yet procured 

 the descriptions. 



Stratiomys hac/iux, Walk;, is given in Kertesz's Cata- 

 logue of Diptera as being an American specie®,. 

 and not Australian. I think this is the only 

 name that need be retained in ''Species expur- 

 gatae." 



The above remarks are based mostly upon identifica- 

 tions of Tasmanian specimens. I have seen insufficient 

 material from the mainland to check the synonomy pro- 

 visionally given above. 



Odontomyia amyris, Walk. 



The mountain form of this species has the face with 

 a broad black margin above, in both male and female. 



Hab. Mt. Wellington and Cradle Mt., 2,000ft. to 

 4,000ft. 



Specimens from King Island, taken by Mr. A. M. 

 Lea, have this charactei mora or less present. Other iso- 

 lated specimens have also this character in variation. 



This form is equivalent to annuliprs, Macq., except 

 that the tibiae have no black ring. Annulipes was de- 

 Scribed from Tasmania, so there can be no c|uestion but 

 that the mountain form of amyris is intermediate between 

 auiyris as White described it and annulipes of Macquart. 



The Tasmanian record of suhdentafa, Macq., given by 

 White in Proic. Roy. Soc, Tasm., pg. 260, 191G, belongs 

 to' amyris, with the face margined above black. 



Odontomyia opeetanea, White. 



New to the Tasmanian Fauna. Agrees with White's 

 description, except that the antenna has the third joint 

 not much longer than the first and second together. The 

 species is only known from a single specimen from "Vic- 

 toria, which isi in England, so I have been unable to check 

 the proportions of the antennae, which may be a. clerical 

 error. It is not advisable to risk further synonomy until 

 the present puzzles in nomenclature of this genus Have 

 been solved. 



Hah. Cradle Mt., about 3,000ft.; 2 females, 17th 

 Jan., 1917. 



