244 THE DIPTERA-ERACUYrEllA Ol: TASMANIA, 



Male. Eyes joined. Anteimse distinctlv longer thairi 

 the head, the lirst and second joints short, tiie third rather 

 more than twice as long as the first two together, and 

 terminated by an arista which is longer than the three 

 antenna! jcints together. Thorax shining black, wlth. 

 long lateral bristles; scutellum grey, with two long, black, 

 terminal bristles. Abdomen brownish-black, the three- 

 basal segments with sides and segmentations yehovy, the 

 whole bearing long white pubescence. Legs yellow, the 

 posterior femora with a dark brown band shortly before 

 the apex ; posterior tibije with middle and apex brown ; 

 tarsi with apices of segments brown ; front leg;s almost 

 bare; middle and posterior femora and tibiae with long 

 black bristles. Wings hyaline, with a brown stigma; 

 disca.l cell large, w^ith two issuing veinlets ; anal vein^ 

 curved, distinct and continued far beyond the anal cell ; 

 anal cross-vein short, and not quite reaching the anal 

 vein, thus leaving the anal cell slighth^ open. 



This species was described by Bezvi from a female taken; 

 at Mount Victoria, New South Wales. In Tasmania I 

 have only taken it h'gh up in the hills that bound the 

 Bagdad Valley on its eastern side, so the species is pro- 

 bably a mountain on^. My dates range from November o^ 

 to March 16. 



LfPTOPEZA LEVICOSTA, Sp. uov. (Fig 48.) 



Thorax grey ; abdomen shining black ; legs yellow, with- 

 out any sign of darkening; posterior femora with only ai 

 few short apical bristles; wings with the costa not bristly., 

 and the anal cross-vein distinct. 



Length. Male, 3 mui. ; female, 3.5-4 mm. 



Hab. Mangalore. 



Fig. 48. \\'ing of L( itfoixza hi'icosfa 



Male. I'roboscis black, stout, short, but protruding 

 well beyond the oral aperature ; palpi pale yellow, very 

 short. Antenna^ black, longer than the head, the first and 

 second joints shoi-t, the third about three times as long as 

 the first two together, and teiminated by an arista, whiclii 



