228 Records of the S.A. Museum 



remainder of the mesonotiim grey. Pleui-fi heavily or('y-])ruiiiose, brighter 

 ventrally. Halteres short, pah\ Legs with the coxtic daik. spai-sely prninose; 

 trochanters reddish-yellow: femora yellow, the lips of Ihe foi-e femora hi-oadly 

 dark hrown, on Ihe other femora with a narrow snbterminal ring instead of the 

 dark apex; tibiae brownish-yellow, the tips narrowly darkened; tarsi brown, the 

 terminal segments darger. Wings whitish subhyaline; stigma oval, greyish- 

 brown; three conspienous brown elonds along R before the stigma, the first at h, 

 the third at the origin of Rs and the tip of Se, these dark marks snbequal in 

 extent to the pale interspaces; paler grey elouds along the eord and outer end of 

 cell first M- ; tips of the anal veins and near midlength of vein first A clouded; 

 veins dark brown in the infuscated areas, more yellowish elsewhere. Venation : 

 Se short, Sc^ ending a short distance beyond the origin of Rs, He- at the tip of 

 Sc^ ; Rs about twice the deflection of R4+"' ; cell first M^ subquadrate ; basal deflec- 

 tion of Cu^ before the fork of M; anal angle rather prominent. Abdomen dark 

 brown, prninose: sternites more yellowish, the snbterminal sternites infuscated. 



Hah. South Australia : Port Lincoln; Tasmania: King Island ; Lord Howe 

 Island (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 12136. 



D. inhonora is apparently most closely related to D. obscura Skuse. 



DICRANOMYIA BREVIRAMA sp. nov. 



Head and rostrum broAvnish-yellow ; antennal scape broA\Tiish-yellow, the 

 flagellum dark brown ; Avings yellowish ; Sc short, cell first M- closed ; abdominal 

 tergites dark brown, the caudal margins narrowly pale. 



$ Length, 6 mm.; Aving, 7-2 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi light broAvnish-yelloAV. xVntennal scape broAvnish-yelloAV ; 

 flagellum dark broAvn, the segments OA'al. Head broAvnish-yellow. Mesonotal 

 praescutum yelloAv Avith a reddish sublaterai stripe on either side ; scutal lobes a 

 little darker than the i-eraainder of the scutum ; scutellum yelloAvish, a little darker 

 medially at the base ; postnotum reddish medially, more yelloAvish laterally. 

 Pleura reddish-yelloAV, A'ery sparsely prninose, the propleura clearer yelloAV. 

 Halteres yelloAV, the knobs broAvn. Legs Avith the coxae obscure yelloAV; troch- 

 anters yellow, remainder of the legs pale broAvnish-testaceous. Wings AA'ith a light 

 yelloAvish suffusion, a little darker along the costal margin ; stigma indistinct ; 

 A'eins broAvnish-yelloAV. Venation : Se short, Sc^ ending immediately before the 

 origin of Rs, Sc- some distance from the ti]) of Se^ the latter alone being nearly 

 as long as the basal deflection of Cu^ ; Rs short, strongly arcuated, a little longer 

 than the slightly less arcuated basal deflection of R4+'^ ; cell first M^ rectangular, 

 m about one-half the outer deflection of M-^ ; basal deflection of Cu^ at the fork 

 of M. Abdominal tergites dark broAvn. the caudal margins of the segments 



