PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 533 
Fam. 22. NEMESTRINID. 
This apparently limited family is, according to descriptions, 
more numerous in Australia than in any other ‘country, the total 
of our species amounting to twenty-five. The African and South 
American faunas are each credited with about twenty species ; 
these belong to the genera to which the majority of the Australian 
forms are referred. TZ7ichophthalma, Westw., has nineteen, 
Hirmoneura, Meig., four, and Z7richopsidea, Westw., and LExere- 
toneura, Macq., a single species each. The two last-mentioned 
genera are known only from this country; Zxeretoneura is 
recorded only from Tasmania. 
Fam. 23. BomByLip«. 
This family is richly represented. One hundred and twenty- 
three species, referable to eleven genera, have been characterised ; 
no species, falling under the section ToxopHorIn& are yet known 
here. ANTHRACIN# has fifty nine species, nine of which belong 
to Exoprosopa, Macq., and the remainder to Anthrax, Scop ; 
Lomatin® jncludes sixteen species, one belonging to Lomatia, 
Meig., five to Veuria, Newm., and ten to Comptosia, Macq. ; and 
BomBYLIn# is represented by six genera and forty-eight species, 
two species belong to Gevon, Meig., the same number to Phthiria, 
Meig., one each to Duschistus, Loew, and Lomatia, Meig., two to 
Acreotrichus, Macq., and forty to the typical genus Bombylius. 
Only one genus, Acreotrichus, Macq., is yet recorded as peculiar 
to Australia ; several of the others are cosmopolitan. 
Fam. 24. THEREVID. 
Thirty-three species, belonging to five genera, have been 
described. Anabarhynchus, Macq., peculiar to Australia, has 
eleven described species ; Dimassus, Walk., has one species 
occurring in New South Wales and two others of doubtful locality. 
Thereva, Latr., a cosmopolitan genus, is, according to descriptions, 
represented throughout the country by at least seventeen species. 
The genus Phycus, Wlk., is known by only two species, one of 
which has been described from New South Wales, the other from 
Bengal. Lctinorhynchus, Macq., only known from Sydney, South 
Australia and Tasmania, seems to be limited to three or four 
species. 
Fam. 25. ScENOPINIDA. 
No Australian species have been yet recorded, and I do not 
yet know of the occurrence of any. 
Fam. 26. Cyrrip2. 
Represented here by six genera, three of which are endemic ; 
these latter, picerina, Macq., and Leucopsina and Nothra, 
