AUSTRALIAN CONOPID FLIES—CAMRAS 67 
segment mainly dark reddish. Genitalia black and dark reddish. 
Theca 1% times as long as wide, dark reddish. 
VARIATION (in paratypes): Length 8 to9 mm. Cheeks sometimes 
partly reddish. Proboscis 1% to 1% times length of head. Front 
near antennae partly black. Yellow of face more restricted and dark 
areas more extensive in one male. 
Tyrxs: Holotype, male, USNM 64917. Allotype, USNM, Strad- 
broke Island, Queensland, September 20, 1915, J. C. Bridwell. Para- 
types, Queensland: 1 male, author’s collection ex USNM, same data 
as holotype; 1 male, USNM, Stradbroke Island, Feb. 10, 1911, H. 
Hacker; New South Wales: 1 female, author’s collection ex USNM, 
Sydney, Bridwell collection. 
Australoconops pulcher, new species 
Description: Male: Length 11mm. Head reddish yellow. Front 
transversely grooved. Center of vertex including the tubercle and 
facial grooves dark shiny black. Facial keel entirely yellow. T 
pattern on front and cheeks blackish brown. Occiput black. Pos- 
terior orbit dark reddish yellow. Orbits and lower facial grooves 
yellow white pollinose. First antennal segment black, four times as 
long as wide. Remainder of antennae and proboscis missing. 
Thorax black, reddish gold pollinose on humeri and adjacent 
dorsum, narrowly separated from a similar distinct pleural stripe. 
Triangular mark anterior to the scutellum and metapleura reddish 
gold pollinose. Indistinct yellow pollinose on dorsum and postnotum. 
Indistinct white pollinose on pleura. Coxae mainly black, white 
pollinose. Legs rufous, diffusely black on basal half of femora. 
Wings hyaline, with brown pattern between first and third veins and 
vena spuria and along fifth vein. Calypters grayish white. Halteres 
yellow, dark brown at base. 
Abdomen black, reddish gold pollinose on second, third, and fifth 
segments, except for margins and sides. Sixth segment entirely red- 
dish gold pollinose except on sides. Fourth segment reddish gold 
pollinose on distal margin, in midline, and to each side. Seventh 
segment shiny dark reddish yellow. Genitalia black. 
Type: Holotype, male, USNM 64918, Sydney, New South Wales, 
Bridwell collection. 
Australeconops similis, new species 
Description: Male: Length 8.5 mm. Vertex and front dark 
reddish black. Front transversely grooved. Face and keel dark 
yellow. Cheeks dark reddish black. Facial grooves mainly black. 
Occiput black above, dark reddish below. Orbits and a postvertical 
mark gold pollinose. Antennae dark reddish, rufous on most of third 
