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brownish-testaceous; remainder of the legs darker brown. Wings greyish-sub- 

 hyaline, unmarked with darker ; cell Sc and the stigma a little darker ; veins 

 brown. Venation: Es and R-+^ subequal in length; cell M^ broadly sessile; 

 eells M\ second M- and M^ parallel and approximately subequal in length and 

 breadth. Abdomen brownish-l)laek, probably with a brown bloom in fresh speci- 

 mens. Ovipositor with the valves dark brownish horn-colour. 



Hah. North Queensland: Cairns district (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 12173. 



P. minor is the smallest species of the genus known. It is closest to P. 

 inornata Skuse, and belongs to this group or subgenus. It differs from inornata 

 in its very small size, the shorter flagellar pectinations, and the details of 

 colon ration. 



PLUSIOMYIA SPISSIGRADA sp. nov. 



Female subapterous; wings considerably atrophied both in length and 

 breadth. 



9 Length, about 33 mm. ; wing, 12 mm. ; abdomen alone, excluding the 

 ovipositor, about 22 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head moderately elongated, a little longer than 

 the remainder of the head, with no indication of a nasus, reddish-brown in colour ; 

 mouth-parts darker. Antennal scape dark brown (flagellum broken). Head 

 dark grey, narrowly paler adjoining the inner margins of the eyes. Pronotum 

 very thin, deep reddish -brown. Mesonotal praescutum testaceous-brown with a 

 dark brown median stripe, the median line of tlie praescutum with a distinct, 

 shallow, longitudinal fovea ; lateral stripes obscure yellow, darker laterally ; 

 scutum brown, the median area and inner portions of the lobes obscure yellow; 

 scutelhim brown, the posterior half of the median lobe yellowish ; postnotum 

 reddish-brown; lateral sclerites of the postnotum more pruinose; a conspicuous 

 transverse ridge across this sclerite before the halter, as in the genus. Pleura 

 reddish-brown, the mesepimeron and lateral sclerite of the postnotum more 

 yellowish. Halteres brownish-yellow. Legs with the coxae and trochanters 

 reddish-brown; femora reddish -brown, becoming dark brown at the tips 

 (remainder of the legs broken). Wings considerably atrophied both in length 

 and breadth so as to render the fly incapable of flight, the venation correspond- 

 ingly distorted ; wings dirty grey, the basal and costal regions more yellowish. 

 Venation: Costa tAvice bellied outward, more strongly so opposite the stigmal 

 region; cell M^ entirely sessile; veins stout, the cells correspondingly reduced. 

 Abdomen large and filled witli eggs, dark reddish-brown ; pleural region duller 

 (the tips of the ovipositor are broken, but the shields of both valves are dark 

 shiny brown). 



