220 THE DIPTERA-BRACHYCERA OF TASMANIA, 



bristles black. Antennae orange. Thorax and scutcllum 

 orange-brown, with black bristles, as described under the 

 generic characters, but quite bare of pubescence. Abdo- 

 men with first segment dull orange-red; remaining seg- 

 ments dull black," the second to fifth bearing each two 

 dull orange-red spots; apex with short, black bristles. 

 Legs yellow, with a few scattered black bristles. Wings 

 hyaline, without any trace of a stigma. 



"^This species is easily recognised by the orange-brown 

 thorax, and black abdomen, with ten dull orange-red spots. 

 Only one specimen is known, which was taken by myself 

 on September 25, 1912, in the bush at Mangalore; I 

 searched the same locality for other specimens in succeed- 

 ing years, but without success. 



Subfamily Empinse. 

 This subfamily, so far as is known at present, is re- 

 presented in the Australian region by six genera, all of 

 which, w^ith the exception of Anthejjiscojnis, occur in Tas- 

 mania. These genera may be recognised by the long, or 

 fairly long, proboscis, and by the anal cross-vein (i.e., the 

 vein let closing the anal cell) being strongly recurrent, and 

 becoming confluent wdth the anal vein. 



Table of the Tasmanian Genera of Einpince. 



1. Cubital vein forked. 2 

 Cubital vein not forked. 4 



2. Mediastinal vein curved up at its end, and meet- 



ing the costa ; anterior tarsi in male, with the 

 iirst joint conspicuously dilated. H i l a r a, Meig. 



Mediastinal vein straight, or nearly so, and not 

 meeting the costa. 3 



3. Anterior tarsi in male w^th the first joint conspicu- 



ously dilated ; metapleural bristles wanting. 



HiLAROPUS, Gen. no v. 

 Anterior tarsi in male not at all, or very slightly, 

 dilated; metapleural bristles present. Em pis, L. 



4. Cubital vein connected with the radial vein by a 



cross- vein. Tenontomyia, Gen. nov. 



Cubital vein not connected with the radial vein. 



R H A M P H O M Y I A, Mcig. 



53. HiLARA, Meig. (Fig. 41.) 

 Anterior tarsi in the male with the first joint conspicu- 

 ously dilated ; mediastinal vein short, curved up at its 

 end, and meeting the costa; length of proboscis about the 

 height of head. 



