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rather broad but ill-deiincd median stri)~)e, split by a eapillary darker median 

 line; scutal lobes reddish, the median area more yellowish; scutellum reddish- 

 broAvn, the median area yellow; two brown spots at the base of the median sclerite; 

 postnotnm shiny reddish-brown, the lateral sclerites paler, especially ventrally, 

 with a circular brown spot before the root of the halteres. Pleura faintly reddish ; 

 a broad, light yellow longitudinal strijx" extending from the propleura to the 

 base of the abdomen, slightly interrupted near the wing-root; a conspicuous 

 brownish-black triangular area before the root of the halteres; a ventral brownish- 

 violaceous longitudinal stripe extending from the propleura across the fore coxa 

 and dorsal margin of the mesosternum. Halteres light brown, the knobs darker. 

 Legs with the outer faces more or less violaceous; trochanters yellow^; femora 

 brownish-j^ellow, the tips broadly (3 mm.) and abruptly blackened; tibiae brown, 

 the base narrowly yellowish, the apex narrowly blackened ; tarsi dark brown. 

 Wings subhyaline, the stigma and costal region brownish-yellow; cells second 

 Ri, R^, and apex of R^ yellowish ; veins beyond the cord conspicuously seamed 

 with brown ; linear brownish streaks in cell R and less distinctly in cell M ; anal 

 cells greyish, a clear streak in cell first A, adjoining vein second A; veins dark 

 brown. Venation : Rs longer than R-+", gently arcuated ; R^ a little longer 

 than Rs; petiole of cell M^ very short, less than r-m; m-cu present, but short. 

 Abdominal tergites reddish-brown, segments five to eight darker ; sternites obscure 

 yellow with a broad blackish median stripe. Ovipositor reddish horn-colour, the 

 tergal valves slender; sternal valves flattened, Ihe tips subacute. 



Hah. Tasmania: Cradle Mountain ( H. J. Carter and A. M. Lea). Type, 



T. 12179. 



ACRACANTHA ABNORMALIS sp. nov. 



Antennae twelve-segmented in both sexes ; basal six flagellar segments incras- 

 sated, the terminal four without long verticils as usual in the genus ; mesonotum 

 buffy-yellow, the praescutum with four dark In-own stripes ; pleura silvery-grey ; 

 wings faintly greyish ; basal abdominal tergites fulvous, the remaining segments 

 more brownish. 



$ Length, about 11 mm.; wing, 14-5 mm. 9 Length, about 18-20 mm.; 

 wing, 16-20 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head brown, dusted with grey; nasus long and 

 slender; palpi dark brown. Antennae twelve-segmented in both sexes; scapal 

 segments brownish-yellow ; flagellum dark brown ; the six basal flagellar segments 

 subcylindrical, gradually decreasing in length from the first to the fourth, the 

 fifth a little shorter than the third ; these basal segments have no verticils on their 

 inner face, those on the outer face appressed ; the terminal four segments elongate, 

 the last three especially so; verticils inconspicuous. Head dark brown medially, 



