Australia and the Fiji Islands. 21 L 



Erephopsis aureohirtn, Rioardo, A.nn. & Mar. Nat. Hist. (7) 

 V. pp. 112, 116, pL i. fig. 10 (1900); id. (8) xvi. 

 p. 26 (1915). 



Two females from Queensland. 



Erephopsis doddi, $ , sp. n. 



Type (female) and others from Warren River, West 

 Australia {IV. D. Dodd). The type is in tlie South 

 Australian Museum. 



A species with shaded transverse veins on the wing*. 

 Abdomen testaceous at base with median black spots and 

 blackish at apex and greyish or reddish segmentations. 

 Antennfe l)lackish. Palpi very small_, short, and concave. 

 Legs testaceous and blackish. 



Length 15 mm. 



h^tce reddish, with grey tomentum and long black hairs, 

 «ome white ones intermixed. Beard yellowish white- 

 Palpi testaceous, the first joint with long black hairs, the 

 second one conical and concave with curved upper border, 

 and a few short bhick hairs at apex. Antenna bla(dc, the 

 first two joints with long black hairs. Forehead reddish 

 brown with L-rey tomentose sides and with black thick 

 pubescence, broadest anteriorly, being quite a third broader 

 than at vertex ; ocelli distinct. Thorax blackish with two 

 naiTow, grey, tomentose stripes on anterior half of dorsum 

 ■only; pubescence as in E. geinina. Walker. Abdomen very 

 similar to this last species, the third segment with a black 

 spot similar to the one on the second segment; hairs 

 on sides chiefly white, black on the third, fourth and fifth 

 segments; underside bright testaceous with a few white 

 hairs. Legs testaceous, but blackish on the upper sides of 

 femora ; pubescence black. Wings with the first posterior 

 cell closed or slightly open, 



Pelecorrhgnchus eristaloides, yVaMi-er, List Dipt. Brit. Mus. i, 

 p. 193 (1818) [Silvius] ; Ricardo, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (7) v. p. 1U2 (1900) ; White, Royal Soc. Tasaiaui<i 

 (1915), pt. ii., Diptera Biachycera, p, 22. 



One male from Huron River, Tasmania (Lea), 



Genus Silvius, 



Mr. Taylor has lately forwarded me a copy of his jifiper 

 (Proceedings Linneau Soc, of New S. Wales, 1915, voL xi. 



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