BY G. H. HARDY. 75 



Botnhyliiis consohrinus, Macquart. 



Bombylius consohrinus, Macquart, Dipt. Exot., suppl. 2, 1847, 

 p. 54. 



Note. — The description of this species is very inferior 

 and short. It may be a small specimen of B. tenuicornis, 

 Macquart, and moreover it is significant to note that the 

 localities given by Macquart in both cases are ''Australia and 

 "Tasmania." It is probable that two species were mixed under 

 one name, as a species of the genus is not definitely known 

 from both localities. 



Species of uncertain generic position. 



Bombylius australis, Guerin, Voy. Coq. (2), ii., 1830, p. 294, 

 PI. XX., fig. 4. 



Species erroneously recorded as Australiaji. 



^xoprosopa collaris, Wiedemann. Kertesz (Cat. Dipt., v., 

 1909) gives "India or Australia" as localities for 

 this species, but the latter locality was evidently in- 

 tended for Africa. The species is placed as a 

 synonym of E. lar, Fabricius, by Brunetti in the 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Dipt.-Brachycera, i., 1920. 



Anthrax semiatra (Hoffmann), Macquart, Dipt. Exot., 

 suppl. 4, 1850, p. 113. Hoffmann's species is refer- 

 able to Anthrax morio, Linnseus, which is known 

 from Europe and North America; Macquart record- 

 ed it from Australia. 



CYRTID^. 



Characters. — The family contains a group of abnormal 

 flies of diverse shapes. The head is composed almost entirely 

 of eyes, and is situated well down on the thorax. The 

 antennae are minute or very large, and may be placed close 

 to the mouth or as far up as near the summit of the head, 

 and the eyes may be contiguous on either side or en both 

 sides of the antennas. The thorax and abdomen are usually 

 inflated, the squama large, covering the halteres, and the 

 wing venation may be rudimentary or complex. 



Note. — The family contains at least seven described Aus- 

 tralian species, which have been given twenty-four specific 

 names. There are six genera recognised, and one of these, 

 Epicerina, may be identical with the genus Panops. The 

 species are generally rare, usually variable in colour, and 

 the sexes so far ascertained are dimorphic. 



