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Genus Marmasoma, White. 

 Marmasoma, White, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1916, p. 188. 

 Marmasoma siimptuosa, White. (PI. XVI., figs. 5, 6, and 7.) 

 Marmasoma sumptuosa, White, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1916, 

 p. 190. 



Description. — Female. Similar to the male, eyes widely 

 separated; the front is similar to the rest of the head in 

 colour and vestiture, and contains about twelve black 

 bristles; the abdomen is more conspicuously clothed with 

 scales, and the apex contains a protruding lamella above. 



Hah. — Tasmania, Brown's Cave Valley, off the Bagdad 

 Valley. One male and one female allotype, taken on the 

 25th October, 1914. 



Type. — The female allotype is in the Australian Museum. 



Genus Eclimus, Loew. 

 Eclimus, Loew, Stett. Ent. Zeit., v., 1844, p. 154. 



Note. — The Australian species placed in this genus is 

 represented by a single specimen which has the antennae 

 apparently mutilated; it is possible that this character is the 

 result of an abortion due to an agency acting during the 

 pupal, or less likely the emerging from the pupal, stage. The 

 insect was captured in this condition by the writer, and the 

 extremely short third joint of the antennse was noted at the 

 time whilst the insect was still alive. Probably the normal 

 form of the antennse is similar to that of other species placed 

 under the genus Eclimus. 



Eclimus longipalpis, sp. nov. (PI. XVII., figs. 13, 14, and 15.) 

 Description. — The male is a black insect with short 

 black pile; the thorax and scutellum have a little depressed 

 yellow pile, and the whole insect ventrally is greyish. The 

 wings are hyaline with a small fuscous spot at the base of 

 the cubital vein, and a large black area beyond the apical 

 half of the wing reaching from the costa to the discal cell. 



Male. — The head is black with a greyish tomentum 

 covering the face reaching to the cheeks, and is traceable on 

 the antennas. The antennas consist of a rather long first 

 joint, the second joint is a quarter the length of the first, 

 and the third joint is scarcely longer than the second, and ' 

 the apex is truncate, receding from the dorsal to the 

 ventral surface, and the edge appears to be crowned with 

 minute spines; the character of the third joint is unlike 

 that of a Bombylid, and may be due to an abortion as ex- 

 plained under the genus. The black proboscis is about twice 



