BY CHARLES P. ALEXANDER. 103 



2. Tarsi conspicnously white. (Java) L. leucopeza de Meijere 



Tarsi brown 3 



3. Thorax shin}' blackish brown, the humeral 



regions and margins reddish yellow ; 



femora blackish brown. (Java) L. lucida de Meijere 



Thorax yellowish or reddish 4 



4. Mesonotum yellowish, the scutellum livid brown ; 



fusion of E2 and Ri extensive, more than 

 one-half of the free portion of iJj beyond" 



SCi2, (India) L. bengalen.ns Brunetti 



Mesonotum rusty brown, the scutal lobes, 

 scutellum and postnotum dark plumbeous 

 brown ; fusion of i?2 and Jij slight, less 

 than one-half of the free portion of R\ 

 beyond (S^rg. (Queensland) L. rujilhorax, sp.n 



Tribe Hexatoraini. 

 (renus Eriocera Macquart. 



1838, Eriocera Macquart, Dipteres exotiques, vol. I, pt. 1, 



p. 74. 



The- genus Eriocera has not been recorded from Australia 

 hitherto. The present collection inchides two species, both 

 of whicli are undescribed. 



Eriocera au,slr alien-sis, sp.n. 

 Antenna! flagellum yellowish brown : mesonotal 

 prsescutura lirownish yellow with four dark brow, stripes : 

 scutal lobes dark brown ; femora brownish yellow, the tips 

 faintly darkened ; wings pale brown : cell 1st if 2 closed ; 

 abdomen dull yellow, the segments narrowly ringed caud- 

 ally with dark brown. 



Female. — Length 1 1-13. 5 mm. : wing, K*..")-!!..! mm. 



The following description made from alcoholic 



specimens. 



Rostrum and palpi light broNvn. Antenna- with the 

 scapal .segments brown, the flagellum yellowish brown, 

 the terminal segments darker ; antennae with eight segments, 

 the first flagellar segment longer than the second and thii'd 

 taken together ; the remaining segments gradually de- 

 crease in size to the end of the organ ; *ast segment con- 

 stricted at midlength and evidently formed by the fusion of 

 two small segments. Vertical tubercle large and conspicuous, 

 with a broad V-shaped notch. Head brown. 



