162 IHE DIPTERA-BKACHYCERA OF TASMANIA, 



/ind Queensland. My dates range from January 4 to 

 i'ebruary 15. 



Bathypogon nigrinus, Eicardo. 



Moustaciie white, with a few black bristles above ; an- 

 tennae with first joint red, second and third black ; thorax 

 deep brown, white at sides; etbdomeu brownish-black; 

 femora black above, red beneath ; tibice reddish ; bristles 

 ■01 thorax, scutellum, and tibiae black. 



Length. Male and female, 13-18 mm. 



Hab. Mangalore. 



Male and female. Face reddish, covered with wdiite 

 tomentum ; front brown. ^Xntennie with first joint red, 

 second and third black. Thorax deep brown, indistinctly 

 striped, the sides white ; bristles and bristles of scutellum 

 black. Abdomen brownish-black, almost bare, but with 

 little depressed yellowish-white pubescence. Legs w^ith 

 femora black above, red beneath, bearing sparse white 

 pubescence; anterior tibias red, posterior black, bristles 

 black, but with a few white bristles at extreme apex; tarsi 

 black. Wings hyaline or tinged with brown, particularly 

 at apex. 



Variation. Tasmanian specimens show little variation, 

 "but a female from Victoria, has the tibia) yellow-brown. 



This is a more slender and generally blacker species than 

 B. })rarhypUrn>^. It may be recognised at once by the 

 bristles of the thorax, scutellum, and tibice being black 

 instead of yellow, and by the first antennal joint being 

 red instead of black. 



B. nigrinus may be met with settled on the ground in 

 sandy places. It occurs sparingly during the month of 

 January. 



32. S T E N o p o G o N, Loew. 



{Gnnioscelis, Schin.) 



Face very narrow; abdomen much elongated, but not 

 ■constricted at the base; wings large, the fourth posterior 

 cell open. 



Face very narrow, the narrowest part being at the 

 base of the antenna) ; moustache long and bushy. Antennre 

 a little longer than the ihead, the first joint about twice 

 the length of the second, the third about equal in length 

 to the first two together, and provided with a short 

 blunt style. Thorax long and hairy, with lateral and 

 posterior bristles ; scutellum with weak marginal bristles. 

 Abdomen greatly elongated, and, in dried specimens, much 

 compressed laterally, but not constricted at the base. Legs 



