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men bare, dark brown, or brownish-black, the basal and 

 apical segments being the darkest. Legs with femora and 

 tibice pale yellow, with knees black, the femora with 

 also a faint blackish banding before the apeix; femora 

 shortly spinose beneath ; all tibiae with two black bristles ; 

 tarsi brownish. Wings hyaline, with a brown stigma ; the 

 discal cell with a short, incomplete veinlet above the two 

 usual complete ones. 



This species was described by Bezzi from a male taken 

 at Mount Victoria, New South Wales. In Tasmania I 

 have only met with it at the Cascades, Hobart, where it 

 is probably not uncommon ; time of occurrence, October. 



Leptopeza rubrithorax, Sp. nov. 



Thorax dark orange, unspotted; abdomen black, indis- 

 tinctly reddish at the base; femora and tibiae very hairy, 

 yellow, the tibiaB brown at apex; wings hyaline. 



Length. Female, 4.5 mm. 



Hab. Hobart. 



Female. Face and proboscis black. Eyes joined. An- 

 tennae black, the first and second joints short, the third 

 about three times as long as the first two together, and 

 terminated by an arista which is about equal to it in 

 length. Thorax dark orange, unspotted, bare, with a 

 long and a short notopleural l3ristle, and a long postalar 

 bristle; scutellum similarly coloiu"ed to the thorax, with 

 six black marginal bristles, the two middle ones being 

 the longest. Abdomen black, indistinctly reddish at the 

 base; ovipositor long, j^ellow, with apex black. Legs yel- 

 low, the tibiae and tarsi apically darkened; both femora, 

 and tibiae are very hairy, the former being also spinose 

 beneath. Wings hyaline, without any distinct stigma; 

 cubital vein strongly waved ; discal cell with two issuing 

 veinlets : halteres pale whitish yellow. 



This species may be distinguished without clifiiculty by 

 the uniform dark orange thorax. I have only come across 

 a single specimen, which occurred at the Cascades, Ho^bart, 

 on October 4, 1912. 



Leptopeza pulcherrima, Bezzi. 



Thorax shining black ; abdomen brownish-black, the 

 three basal segments with sides and segmentations yeliow; 

 legs bristly, yellow, the posterior femora with a dark 

 brown band shortly before the aj^ex; wings hyaline. 



Length. Male, 4.5 mm. 



Hab. Mangalore. 



