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HENRY F. CARTER. 



Habitat. Interior of Western Australia: (/. W. Dakin), 1915. Five females 

 (two cotypes) in the British Museum Collection. 



Professor Dakin states that these midges do not trouble one before 10 a.m., and 

 that they disappear at dusk ; in between these hours they bite furiously, and the 

 bite irritates for days afterwards. 



Fig. 6. Leptoconops longicornis, sp. n., ventral view of 



extremity of abdomen of 9 ; g.o., genital orifice ; viii, 



sternite of eighth segment ; ix, sternite of ninth segment ; 



a, anus; b, lamellae; (x 180 circa). 



Leptoconops grandis, sp. nov. 



?.— Length of body (one specimen), 3-5 mm. ; length of wing, 2-0 mm. ; length of 

 antennae, 0-62 mm. ; width of head, 044 mm. 



Two females of this species, captured at the same place and time and bearing the 

 same data, attached to the label as the specimens of L. longicornis, were included in 

 the material collected by Professor Dakin. Indeed the two forms were contained in 

 the same tube and, except in antennal structure and certain details of minor 

 importance, resemble one another so closely that, in the absence of males, it is difficult 



