64 AUSTKAMAN BOMBYLIID^ AND CYRTID^E (DIPTERA), 



the length of the head, and the palpi, also black, reach to 

 three-quarters the length of the proboscis. The eyes are 

 contiguous near the ocellar triangle and slightly separated 

 near the antennae. In the oral aperture there is a pro- 

 nouncedly rounded tubercle which contains a moustache of 

 hairs which are white and predominantly black in colour. 

 The face protrudes beyond the eyes, is free from hairs ex- 

 cept on the cheeks, which contain a beard of long white hairs 

 which merge into the long black hairs situated on the convex 

 occiput and on the vertex. 



The thorax dorsally contains a black vestiture of a 

 velvety appearance and some black hairs; also there are 

 some short depressed yellow hairs mostly confined to the 

 median line. Ventrally some long white hairs are present, 

 and are more abundant on the mesopleura. The scutellum 

 is black and margined greyish, which colour extends to the 

 humeral callus; depressed yellow pubescence is uniformly 

 distributed and the lateral hairs are whitish. 



The abdomen, containing nine segments, is velvety 

 black, and the incisions mostly have white pile, r'rom the 

 third segment the depressed black pile becomes bristle-like, 

 and on the last three segments these bristles are longer and 

 more erect. Ventrally the abdomen is grey as far as the 

 seventh segment and has long whitish hairs. 



The legs are very long and black, sparsely covered 

 with white tomentum; there are very long white hairs on the 

 coxas and femora, and very short black spines on the other 

 segments. 



The wings are hyaline, and have a large fuscous blotch, 

 ■which is bounded by the costal vein, the upper cubital fork, 

 the base of the second submarginal cell, half the length of 

 the first posterior cell, the base of the second and third pos- 

 terior cells, and from thence by a more or less direct line 

 to the costa. There is a small spot at the base of the cubital 

 vein. The halteres are obscure yellowish brown. 



Length. — 7 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales, Botany Bay, La Perouse. One 

 male taken on a flowering shrub on the 8th December, 1918. 



Type. — The unique male holotype is in the Australian 

 Museum. 



BOMBYLIINiE. 

 Genus Cyrtomorpha, White. 

 Cyrtomorpha, White, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1916, p. 185. 



