10(> AUSTRALIAN CRAM E-FLIES. 



Male. — Length 9.5-10 mm. ; wing, 9-9.3 mm. : hind 

 leg, femur, 7.2 mm. ; tibia, 8 mm. ; metatarsus, 10.8 mm. ; 

 remainder of tarsus, 6.8 mm. 



The following description was made from alcoholic 

 specimens. 



Frontal prolongation of the head rather slender, longer 

 than the head, the outer half on the dorsal surface with 

 numerous black hairs that are most dense at the apex ; 

 no distinct nasus ; palpi \'ery short, the third segment 

 nearly globular, the last segment but little longer than the 

 third. Antennae with but 1 1 segments, the scapal segments 

 dull yellow : flagellum brown ; first scapal segment much 

 longer than the oval second segment ; first flagellar segment 

 elongate, strongly narrowed at the base, enlarged distally ; 

 second to fourth flagellar segments gradually decreasing 

 in size, a little narrowed basally ; the five terminal flagellar 

 segments subglobular, crowded ; flagellum verticillate. 

 Front and anterior part of the vertex yellow, remainder of 

 the head dark brown, narrowly paler adjoining the inner 

 margins of the eyes ; vertical tubercle conspicuous. 



Mesonotal prsescutum dull yellow with three very 

 broad light reddish brown stripes that are narrowly mar- 

 gined with darker brown and are confluent ; the broad 

 median stripe is split by a capillary brown line ; scutum 

 dull yellow, the median ai-ea brownish ; scutellum dull 

 yellow, })rownish posteriorly ; postnotum dull yellow with 

 an indistinct brownish median line. Pleura dull yellow. 

 Halteres brown, paler basally. Legs with the coxae and 

 trochanters dull yellow ; femora brownish yellow, the tips 

 narrowly darkened ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown ; tarsi 

 very long, the metatarsi longer than the tibiae : claws simj^le. 

 Wings gray ; cell Sc brown : stigma very pale : veins dark 

 brown ; Venation : Sci preserved, at the tip of Sc-i ; cell 

 2nd Ri short-rhomboidal ; coll Mi sessile in the paratype, 

 petiolate in Ihe type ; fusion of ('ui with il/3+., transient ; 

 cell 2nd A very narrow. 



Abdomen dull yellow, the segments narrowly and 

 rather indistinctly ringed caudally with brown ; eighth 

 segment dark brown ; pleural membrane dark. Male 

 hypopygium of very simple structure, very similar to the 



