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Holotype, cf , Nadi, Fiji Is., 7-28, 13. Paratypes, 4 d's, 

 with the type. 



Libnotes strigivena Walker. 



IJmnobia strigivena Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., V, 229, ISGl. 



This species is recorded by Skuse (Diptera of Australia, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, IV, .series 2nd, 787, 1889). 



Tribe Antochini. 

 Teucholabis fijiensis, sp. n. 



Head dark; thorax with three brown stripes, pleurae spotted with 

 brown; wings yellowish with brown spots. 



Male, length, 7 mm. ; wing, 7.4 mm. 



Male: Rostrum brown, palpi dark brown. Antennae with the 

 basal segments of the flagellum rounded, brown. Eyes large, contigu- 

 ous on the vertex ; head dark grej'ish black. 



Pronotal scutum dull yellow, brown medially above; a brown spot 

 on the lateral end. Mesonotal praescutum light yellow with three 

 stripes of which the median one is longest and broadest, extending from 

 the cephalic margin to the transverse suture. The lateral stripes are 

 short and narrow, belaind, crossing the transverse suture and ending on 

 the anterior border of the scutal lobes ; the lateral margin of the sclerite 

 is suffused with dark browTi. Scutum and scutellum bro\\ai except the 

 median portion of the former which is pale. Postnotum dark brown. 

 Pleura; duU yellow, the epistemites of the pro- and mesothoraces brown. 

 Halteres pale. Legs, coxas, fore and middle, brown, hinder pair paler; 

 trochanters pale yellow; femora yellownsh bro\\-n with a broad brown 

 subapical ring; tibia; and tarsi brown. Wings yellowish, stigmal spot 

 large, jirominent, a small seam on ?>c%; seams at the base of Rs, along 

 the cord and on the outer end of cell 1st M2. Venation: (See fig. 2.) 

 cross-vein r at the tip of the long Ri and so placed slightl>- beyond the 

 middle of R2+3. 



Abdominal tcrgitcs dark brown, the caudal margin a little more 

 yellowash; the basal two or three sternites yellowish, the others more 

 browTi. Hypopygium with the niiUh tergite ha\-ing the caudal margin 

 rounded and very feebly notched medially. Pleura? short, clothed 

 with sparse long hairs. Dorsal appendage of the pleurite jointed at the 

 base, pale, clothed with numerous long hairs at the base, at the tip 

 slightly bifid underneath. The ventral appendage is a long elongation 

 of the pleura, not jointed at its base, darker and more chitinized; 

 toward the tip it is constricted, the actual apex expanded and bearing 

 a few small hairs. (See fig. 8). 



Holotype, cf, Nadi, Fiji Is., 7-28, '13. 



