AVSTIIALIAN ETMENOPTEBA CHALCWOIDEA, VL—GIBAVLT. 325 



ilUSCIDEOMYIA new geaiis. 



Female: — Agrees with the description of AmiiscUlea Girault but the postmarginal vein 

 is somewhat longer than the stigmal, the scutelhmi is without a cross-suture, the abdomen is 

 <;onie-ovate, longer than the thorax and the mandibles are 3- and -l-dentate, long and slender. 

 Otherwise the same except as noted below. 



1. MUSCIDEOMYIA NIGRICYANEA new species. Genotj-pe. 

 Female: — Length, 0.80 mm. Small, graceful, the abdomen pointed. 



Very dark metallic blue-black, the abdomen dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; 

 middle and caudal tibiae very pale orange yellowish, the tips of tibi» and the tarsi white. 

 Scape white, the pedicel black, rest of autenuse brown. Thorax reticulate scaly, the propodeum 

 smooth, very short, the spiracle minute, round, the propodeum shorter at the meson, noncarinate. 

 Abdominal segments not lengthened, the abdomen normal. Stigmal vein with a rather large 

 knob. Pedicel stout, longer than any of the funiele joints which widen distad, 5 largest. 

 Eing-joint small. Club large, its joints distinct, wider than the funiele but not as long. 

 Funiele 2 shortest, transverse, 1 globular. Flagellum armed with stiff setas. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female taken in jungle along the Herbert Eiver, April 0, 1914 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: llalifax, Queensland. 



Type: Ko. ByS7S5, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and hind 

 tibis on a slide with type appendages of NcompltaloideUa hrevis Girault. 



Genus ANYSIS Howard. 



" Antenna} as with Apliohetus, except that funiele joint 2 is twice as long as 1; 3, 4 and 

 5 subequal in length, increasing in width, and each slightly shorter than 2. Eyes naked; head 

 very broad; occiput strongly concave, its superior margin acute. Thorax well arched; 

 parapsidal sutures meeting axillar sutures; scutellum broad at base, somewhat lengthened, 

 extending over metanotum to vertical plane of base of abdomen, not cross-furrowed. Petiole 

 distinct but very short; abdomen without basal tufts; second segment scarcely half the length 

 -of the abdomen. Marginal vein of fore wings three times longer than stigmal, postmarginal 

 about as long as stigmal or slightly shorter; basal nervure not distinct. Basal nervure of 

 hind wings extending at an acute angle toward base of wing. Spur of hind tibia short." 



1. ANYSIS AUSTRALIENSIS Howard. Female. Genotv-pe. 



' ' Length, 1.7 mm. ; expanse, 3.8 mm. ; greatest width of fore wings, .74 mm. General 

 color blue-black, slightly metallic, glistening. Head and thorax with short, sparse, yellowish 

 pile; face delicately shagreened and with fine sparse punctures; mesonotum similarly 

 punctured; metanotum, pleura, and abdomen smooth; metanotum with a median longitudinal 

 rounded carina. Antenna light brown, tip of club darker, pedicel and tip of scape above 

 black; all femora nearly black in middle, lighter at each end; tibiae brown. Wing veins dark 

 brown, fore wings infuseated, hind wings hyaline." 



Hahitat: West Australia. Associated with Ooccids. 



Types: Moat probably in the United States Natioual Museum at Washington, D.C., 

 U.S.A. 



