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3'ellow, elothod with conspicuous brown hairs. Venation : Fusion of M^ and Cu^ 

 about equal to the basal deflection of Cui alone. Abdomen dark brown, the 

 caudal mai-gin of tlie termites narrowly and indistinctly paler; abdomen clothed 

 with loji<i-, conspicuous yellow hairs. In the female the sternites are more 

 yellowish. Ovipositor with the tergal valves slender, upcurved, horn-coloured; 

 sternal valves acicular, almost straight, dark l)rown. 



Jfnh. Ta.smania: Waratah (A. M. Lea). Type, T. 12148. 



This conspicuous species of Molopkihis is by far the largest yet made known. 



GNOPHOMYIA Osten Sacken, 1859. 

 GNOPHOMYIA CYANOCEPS sp. nov. 



Closely related to G. fascipennis (Thorns.) ; r lacking; cell first M- open by 

 the atrophy of M^; head above with a greenish-blue bloom. 



$ Length, 6 mm. ; wing, 5-2 mm. 5 Length, 6-3 mm. ; wing, 6-2 mm. 



Rostrum yellow, darker in the female; palpi dark brown. Antennal scape 

 yellow, the apex of the second segment dark brown ; flagellum dark brown. Front, 

 genae, and anterior part of the vertex yelloAV ; remainder of the vertex dark brown 

 with a greenish-blue bloom. Pronotum and mesonotal praescutum reddish- 

 yellow, unmarked Avith darker ; scutal lobes dark brown ; postnotum with two 

 small blackish spots at the posterior margin. Pleura yellow; a reddish-brown 

 area occupying portions of the mesosternum, mesepisternum, and mesepimeron. 

 Halteres brown at the base, the rcmiainder of the stem and part of the knob 

 yellowish. I^egs with the coxae and trochanters yelloAV; femora yellow, the tips 

 narrowly infuseated, the surface with a few scattered erect bristles; tibiae light 

 brown, the tips dark brown; tarsi brownish-black. Wings whitish-subhyaline, 

 cells C and Sc yellow; in the female with three conspicuous bands and the apex 

 brown ; the first band occupies the region immediately beyond the arculus, incom- 

 plete ; second band broad, extending from R to the wing-margin at the tip of the 

 second anal vein ; third band broad, complete, but more diffuse posteriorly, mostly 

 located beyond the cord ; wing-apex narrowly darkened ; in the male the three 

 basal bands are only barely indicated ; wing-apex uncoloured ; veins dark brown ; 

 costa provided with flattened scales. Venation : Sc long, Sc^ extending to about 

 one-third the length of Rs; Sc- invisible; Rs long, almost straight; R^+s about 

 one-half longer than the basal deflection of Cu^; r atrophied; cell first M- open 

 by the atrophy of the outer deflection of M^ ; basal defle(;tion of Cu^ a short 

 distance beyond the fork of M. Abdominal tergites reddish-yellow in the male, 

 the sternites lighter yellow; in the female the abdomen is dark brownish-black. 



Hob. Northern Territory: Melville Island (W. D. Dodd). Type, I. 12149. 



G. fascipennis (Thoms.) is related to this handsome little fly, but is readily 



