62 AUSTEALIAN BOMBYLllD^ AND CYRTID.^ (DIPTERA), 



between the antennse and the oral margin is very small, and 

 extends as a thin strip to the cheeks. The occiput is slightly 

 concave above and very convex below; it contains a row of 

 minute marginal bristles and sparse white pubescence. 



The thorax is black dorsally and greyish laterally with 

 a black lateral ridge, and is covered with sparse short whitish 

 hairs. Ventrally the thorax is greyish with black on the 

 sutures between the sclerites, and contains some very sparse 

 whitish hairs, the most perceptible of which consist of two 

 rows of minute whitish bristly hairs on the mesonotum, one 

 of which is under the lateral ridge and the other on that 

 portion adjacent to the roots of the wings. 



The compressed abdomen is black, with tracings of 

 greyish lateral markings and a grey venter; the abdomen 

 widens apically, as is usual in the genus, and terminates in 

 a rather complex genitalia. 



All the legs have their coxas greyish, and the remainder 

 of the anterior and intermediate legs are brownish yellow, 

 and are stained with fuscous at the base and on the tarsi; 

 the pulvilli are yellow. The hind femora are black with the 

 apical third swollen, and they contain a ventral yellowish 

 brown mark at the base of the swollen part, and beyond this 

 each has two parallel rows of about ten ventral spines. The 

 hind tibiae are yellow with the base and apex broadly black; 

 the tarsi are black with the pulvilli yellowish. 



The wings are hyaline, and the halteres obscure 

 brownish. 



Female. — The female is similar to the male, but differs 

 by the eyes being separated and the front greyish, and also 

 the abdomen is not perceptibly clubbed. 



Length. — Male and female, 8 mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales, Blue Mountains, Blackheath; 

 two males and one female were taken on flowering shrubs on 

 the 25th November, 1919. 



Tijpe. — The male holotype and the female allotype are 

 In the Australian Museum. 



Genus Antoniaustralia, Becker. 

 Antoniaustralia, Becker, Ann. Mus. Zool., St. Petersburg, 

 xvii., 1912, p. 459. 



Antoniaustralia hermanni, Becker. 

 Antoniaustralia hermanni, Becker, Ann. Mus. Zool., St. 

 Petersb., xvii., 1912, p. 459, fig. 

 Note, — This species is not represented in the collections 

 under revision. 



