256 THE DIPTEKA BRACHYCERA OF TASMANIA, 



Fig. 51. AVing of Liparoniyia scdata. 



Eyes well seiparated on the front in both sexes, but, irr 

 the male; onl)^ narrowly divided on the face. Antennre, 

 without the arista, a little shorter than the head, the first 

 and second joints very short, the third, in the male, as long 

 as the first two together, humped at the base, then slender 

 and pointed, and bearing a, long arista which springs from 

 its base ; the arista, is two-jointed, the first joint being 

 short, and less than half the length of the third antenna! 

 joint; in the female the third joint iR short and rounded. 

 Thorax with one row of acrostichal bristles, which are very 

 short, two rows of dorsocentral bristles, and humeral, 

 posthumeral, notopleural, supraalar, and postalar bristles; 

 scutellum with two very long, widely separated, marginal 

 bristles. Abdomen longer and narrower in the male than 

 in the female, nearly bare in both sexes, but bearing a 

 few small bristles ; in the male the hypopygium is curved 

 forward beneath thei venter, but only for a short distance. 

 Legs simple in both sexes; posterior femora with short 

 bristles. Wings short and rather broad, the radial, 

 cubital, and di&cal veins straight and almost equidistant; 

 anal vein apparently wanting. 



This genus, in the form of the antennae, resembles 

 Anepsiomyia, Bezzi., but is distinguished from that genus 

 by the very much shorter first joint of the arista. Onlv 

 one species is at present known. 



LlPAROMYIA SEDATA, Sp. noV. (Fig. 51). 



Thorax brown ; scutellum dull metallic blue-green ; 

 abdomen brown ; legs yellow-brown, with the femora dark 

 brown above; wings hyaline. 



Length. Male and female, 2 mm. 



Hab. Mangalore. 



Male. Antennae brownish-blaek, of the form described 

 under the generic characters. Thorax dark brown, im- 

 striped; thoracic bristles black; scutellum dull metallic- 



