66 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM VOL, 118 
Australoconops unicinctus (Kréber) 
Conops unicinctus Kréber, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 11, vol. 4, p. 603, 1939. 
The specimens recorded here differ from the description of the male 
mainly by having the fifth tergite entirely gold-yellow pollinose 
except for some black at the lateral margins. The facial grooves vary 
from almost yellow to mainly black. Length 6% to 8 mm. 
MATERIAL EXAMINED: Brisbane, Queensland, Mar. 3, 1914, H. 
Hacker, Baker collection, 1 male, USNM. Gunbower, Victoria, 
Mar. 3, 1933, 1 male, author’s collection ex BMNH. Dedari, 40 miles 
west of Coolgardie, Western Australia, Jan. 11-21, 1936, R. E. Turner, 
1 male, BMNH. 
Australoconops bridwelli, new species 
Description: Male: Length 10 mm. Front dark reddish brown, 
transversely grooved. Vertex slightly darker. Face dark yellow. 
Cheeks and adjacent face dark reddish black. Grooves black above, 
dark yellowish below. Keel yellow, black at base. Gold pollinose 
area on anterior orbit at front and on the parafacial. White pollinose 
on posterior orbit and lower facial grooves. Antennae dark reddish 
brown. Dark yellow on first segment and lower part of third segment. 
First segment five times as long as wide. Second segment nearly two 
times as long as first. Third segment as long as first. Arista black, 
second segment slightly produced. Proboscis dark yellow distally, 
black basally, 1% times length of head. Occiput black. 
Thorax black, gold pollinose on humeri and the adjacent dorsum 
medially, anterior to the scutellum, and on the metapleura. Thinly 
yellow pollinose on the postnotum and pleura. Coxae dark reddish, 
yellow pollinose. Legs rufous, diffusely black on basal half of the 
femora. More pollinose on tibiae and tarsi. Wings hyaline. Dark 
brown pattern between costa and fifth vein. Partly hyaline in apical 
half of first posterior cell and discal cell. Calypters yellow. Halteres 
yellow, dark brown at base. 
Abdomen black, very faintly yellow pollinose. Gold pollinose on 
distal two-thirds of second segment and much of the fifth segment. 
Fifth segment black on anterior and posterior margins and sides. 
Sixth segment with a large circular gold pollinose mark projecting to 
a point anteriorly. Genitalia black. 
Female: Length 8 mm. Similar to the male. Proboscis more 
blackish and somewhat longer. Gold pollinose areas on thorax and 
abdomen somewhat reddish (possibly due to staining). Abdomen 
black on fifth segment. Gold pollinose crescent shaped mark on 
sixth segment. Circular pollinose area on seventh segment. Seventh 
