248 Records of the S.A. Museum 



(lusted with gvvy; tibiae very lon<>', loii<>'ei- tluiu llic foinora; tibial spurs lon^ and 

 slender. Wings yellow, reduced to mere strap-like lobes with no distinct venation, 

 a little longer than the lialteres. Abdomen dark bi-owii, lighter coloured in the 

 female. Male hypopyginm with the j)leuiMtes short and stout; pleural appen- 

 dages two, relatively small and slendei-. Ovipositor with the valves long and 

 powerful, blackened at the base, 1hc a|)ical half of the valves paler. 



Hah. Tasmania: Waratah (H. J. Carter and A. M. Lea). Type, 1. 12161. 



CEROZODIA Westwood, 1835. 



CEROZODIA FLAVIPES sp. nov. 



iSize large (wing of female over 20 mm.); tarsi light yellow; mesonotum 

 brownish-grey in the male with three dark brown stripes; in the female more 

 i-eddish-brown with the stripes less distinct. 



S Length, about 17 mm.; wing, 16-2 mm.; antenna, about 10 mm. 

 9 Length, 25-26 mm.; wing, 21-5 mm.; antenna, about 7 mm. 



S Kostrura reddish-browai ; i)alpi dark brown. Antennae wdth 25 seg- 

 ments; flagellar segments 1 to 21 with very long flabellations, the terminal two 

 segments simple; the branches at about midlength of the organ are longest (about 

 2G mm.), shorter on the basal and terminal pectinated segments; scape light 

 browai, the flagellum and branches dark brown. Head dark brownish-grey. 

 Mesonotum brownish-grey with three dark brown stripes, the median stripe 

 entire; remainder of the mesonotum dark brown, the scutelhnn a little more 

 reddish. Pleura dark, heavily grey-pruinose; clorso-pleural membranes obscure 

 yellow. Halteres light 3a41ow, the knobs dark broAvn. Legs with the coxae dark, 

 grey-pruinose ; trochanters brownish-yellow ; femora brown, the base paler, the 

 tip narrowl}^ yellowish, preceded by an indistinct darker ring; tibiae light brown, 

 the tips narrowly darkened; metatarsi except the tip and the terminal tarsal 

 segment brown; remainder of the tarsi light yellow. Wings wdiitish-subhyaline, 

 the wing-base and cells i' and Sc more yellowish ; a heavy dark brown pattern 

 as follows : a more or less distinct area at the base of cell R ; a large spot at 

 one-third the length of cell K ; at origin of Rs ; at the stigma, continued obliqnely 

 backward along the cord to the fork of M ; a rounded spot at the tip of R- ; less 

 distinct clouds along the cord ; outer end of cell first M- : fork of M^+- ; along 

 veins M and R*+'' ; brownish washes in cells M, Cu\ the distal half of R-"*, and 

 near the ends of the anal cells. \'enation : Sc long, Sc^ extending to slightly 

 beyond the fork of R-^"^; r near mid-distance between the fork of R-"^^ and the 

 tip of R^; R-+2 a little shorter than the arcuated deflection of R*+''; petiole of 

 cell M' shorter than cell first M'- ; basal deflection of Cu^ at about two-fifths the 

 length of cell first M-. Abdomen reddish-brown, sparsely pruinose, the caudal 



