BY ARTHUR WHITE. 43 



1912, but in 1913 I did not meet with a single specimen. I 

 have found it on the wine: from September 24 to November 9. 

 The males appear some time before the females, and seem to 

 be the commoner sex. The insects are somewhat sluggish in 

 their habits ; thev may be found settled on bracken and 

 clumps of grass. A nearly allied, undescribed, species occurs 

 in New South Wales. 



3. Spaniopsis, Gen. nov. 

 Blood-sucking flies, with a lengthened proboscis, and short 

 broad abdomen ; antennae with the third joint large and pro- 

 duced into a thick subterminal arista ; tibiae without any 

 distinct spurs ; wings with the discal cell angulated below, 

 and emitting four posterior veins ; the first, second, and 

 fourth reaching the wing margin, the third reduced to a mere 

 stump and sometimes wanting ; anal cell closed. 



Fig. 2. Wing of Spaniopsis tahaniformis. 



Head broader than the thorax ; eyes in the female (the 

 only sex known) very widely separated; proboscis stout, with 

 large sucker flaps, slightly longer than the head, and twice 

 the length of the palpi ; antennae with the first and second 

 joints extremely small ; the third large and produced into a 

 thickened subterminal arista. Thorax with extremely short 

 pubescence ; scutellum without spines. Abdomen short and 

 broad, resembling Ta6a?iws. Legs bare ; tibiae without any 

 distinct spurs. Wings with a conspicuous stigma; the 

 cubital fork long and narrow ; discal cell (usually) angulated 

 below, and emitting four posterior veins; the first, second, 

 and fourth (which is really the upper branch of the postical 

 vein) reaching the wing margin, the third reduced to a mere 

 stump, and occasionally wanting ; anal cell closed. 



This curious genus cannot be confounded with any other 

 occurring in Tasmania. The four posterior veins arising 

 from the discal cell would, at first sight, seem to show some 

 afiinity with the CoenomyincB* which is, I believe, the only 

 subfamily of the Leptidce in which this peculiarity has 



* Some authorities make the Ccenomyinai into a separate family, the Coemmiyidce. 



