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eight yellow, the bases narrowly infiiscated ; remainder of tlic Hagellnm dark 

 brown. Head with a blackish dash on either side of the vertex, adjoining the 

 inner margin of the eye. Mesonotal praescutnm with the yellow posterior half 

 quadrilineate Avith dark brown; sciital lobes dark brown; scutellnm light 

 brownish-yellow with a narrow l)i'OAvn median line; postnotnm indistinctly 

 trilineate with brown. Pleura dai'k brown. Legs long and slender, yellow, 

 unmarked with darker. Wings with the pattern nearly as in E. terrae-reginae, 

 but the darker circles at the basal deflection of Cu\ outer end of cell first M-, and 

 the fork of M^+- deeper coloured, conspicuously margined with pale conspicuous 

 yellow spots in the outer ends of cells R- to first A. Venation: K^^^ a little 

 longer than the basal deflection of Cu/ ; petiole of cell M^ long, approximately 

 twice as long as the basal deflection of Cu^ Abdomen dark brown. 

 Hah. Lord Howe Island (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 12154. 



LIMNOPHILA Macquart, 1834. 

 LIMNOPHILA PILOSIPENNIS sp. nov. 



Mesonotum shiny reddish-yellow; praescutum Avith a narrow darker brown 

 median stripe; pleura brownish-yellow with a conspicuous blackish area on the 

 mesepimeron; wings yellowish-grey, the apices of the radial cells with macro- 

 trichiae; abdomen dark brown, the basal sternites more yellowish. 



9 Length, 6 • 5 mm. ; wing, 7 • 5 mm. 



Rostrum greyish-pubescent; palpi dark brown. Antennae Avith the scapal 

 segments dark brown; flagellar segments light browh, the outer ones becoming 

 darkei"; flagellar segments oval, becoming more elongate toAvard the end of the 

 organ. Head dark broAvn Avith a sparse pollen. Pronotmn dark broAvn. Meso- 

 notum shiny reddish-yellow, the praescutum with a narroAv, darker broAvn median 

 stripe. Pleura brownish-yelloAV ; a conspicuous blackish area on the mese- 

 pimei'on ; mesosternum infuscated. Halteres pale brown, the apices of the knobs 

 light yelloAV. Legs Avith the coxae yellowish-brown; trochanters dull yellow; 

 femora brownish-yellow with an indistinct brownish ring at about one-third the 

 length ; remaining segments of the leg broAvnish-yelloAV, the tips of each very 

 narrowly infuscated. Wings Avith a yelloAvish-grey tinge, the costal and subcostal 

 cells and the stigma light yelloAv; veins light greyish-yelloAV. Venation: Se long, 

 Sc^ ending about opposite the fork of Rs; 8c- a short distance from the tip of 

 Sc^ the latter alone about equal to the basal deflection of Cu^; Rs long, arcuated 

 at origin, in direct alignment Avith R-+"^ ; r indistinct; R-+^ about one-half longer 

 than r-m ; inner end of cells R^, R^, and first M- in direct alignment ; ceU first M- 

 small, long-pentagonal ; cell M^ short, its petiole about as long as Rs ; basal 

 deflection of Cu^ just before midlength of cell first M-. A sparse grouping of 



