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Antennae comparatively long-, the first flagellar segment Avith a single long (about 

 3 mm.) flabellation: flagellar segments two to nine with three long flabellations, 

 a pair of divergent, stronger, basal branches, the longest being about 4 mm. in 

 length, and a more slender branch of subequal length just beyond midlength of 

 the segment on the same face; the branches toward the end of the segment are 

 shorter ; the apical segments of the antenna taken together are a little longer than 

 the terminal branch; first segment of the scape brown; remainder of the organ 

 black. Head dark brown, the occiput more reddish. Pronotum reddish, grey 

 pruinose. Mesonotal praescutum reddish, greyish-white pruinose, with three 

 dark grey stripes that are indistinctly margined with darker; remainder of the 

 mesonotum reddish, sparsely light grey pruinose. Pleura reddish, with a longi- 

 tudinal stripe covered with a silky-grey bloom, the dorsal sclerites and the meso- 

 sternum darker brown to produce two longitudinal stripes that enclose a broad 

 grey one. Halteres dark brown. Legs Avith the coxae reddish-brown, light grey 

 pruinose; femora reddish -brown, the tips dark brown; tibiae and metatarsi 

 reddish-brown, the tips narrowly blackened; tarsi blackish. Wings dark brown, 

 the costal, subcostal and Inise of the radial cell somewhat brighter; anal cells 

 more greyish; the wing is variegated with whitish-hyaline, the pattern being 

 strikingly like that of Plusioiiiiiia pandoxa; a large hyaline blotch on the outer 

 half of cell M; cell first M- hyaline, sending forth three interrupted rays; a 

 narrow one obliciuely to the costa across the liases of cells R-, R^, W and the 

 extreme tip of cell second W ; the second ray includes almost all of cell R-'^ 

 excepting a narrow broAvn interruption at about one-third the length of the cell ; 

 the third ray is broad and includes only the basal portions of cells second M^ and 

 M* ; cell Cu^ is dark, only the centre being indistinctly paler ; cell Cu hyaline, the 

 base dark lirown, the apical third greyish, enclosing an oval hyaline area; anal 

 cells broadly hyaline Ijasally, greyish-broAvn apically, a narrow hyaline ray in 

 cell first A near vein second A continued to the anal margin. Venation: r-m 

 longer than m-cu ; petiole of cell M^ a little shorter than m. Abdomen reddish, 

 the tergites beyond the second greyish-pruinose, except dorso-medially and 

 laterally; lateral margins of the segments broadly blackened, these areas narrow 

 anteriorly, broadened behind ; a broad dark bj-own dorso-median stripe, this 

 interrupted at tlie posterior margin of each segment ; sternites reddish-brown, 

 sparsely pruinose. 



Hal). Tasmania: Waratah ( TI. .T. Carter and A. M. Lea). Type, I. 12169. 



PLUSIOMYIA Skuse, 1890. 

 PLUSIOMYIA PANDOXA sp. nov. 



Mesonotum dark grey, the praescutum Avith four dull violaceous stripes; a 

 narrow arcuated brown band across the scutellum ; pleura silky-grey with three 



