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segment. Black on first segment and arista. First segment three 
times as long as wide. Second segment twice length of first. Third 
segment little longer than first. Second segment of arista moderately 
produced. Proboscis black, 1% times length of head. 
Thorax black, gold pollinose on humeri and dorsum medial to the 
humeri. This area joins a similarly colored distinct pleural stripe. 
Narrow margin anterior to the scutellum and a large area of the meta- 
pleura gold pollinose. Coxae dark reddish black, yellow pollinose. 
Femora dark reddish black, paler at apex and base. Tibiae mainly 
yellow and partially gold pollinose. Tarsi yellow with dark margin. 
Wings hyaline with dark brown pattern from costa to fifth vein. 
Hyaline in posterior half of first posterior cell and apical half of discal 
cell. Calypters yellow. MHalteres yellow, brown at base. 
Abdomen black, partly dark reddish on first, second, and seventh 
segments. Gold pollinose band on distal half of second and third seg- 
ments produced slightly in midline. Sixth segment with a large gold 
pollinose circular area. Genitalia mainly black. 
Female: Length8mm. Similartomale. Third tergite with yellow 
band narrower and confined to the sides. Sixth segment dark reddish 
black with a half moon shaped gold pollinose mark. Theca dark 
reddish, nearly 1% times as long as wide. 
VARIATION (in paratypes): Length 8.5 to 11 mm. Dark reddish 
areas darker on cheeks, lower occiput, and femora and brown in the 
first posterior and discal cells less extensive in the male. 
Types: Holotype, male, USNM 64919, Stradbroke Island, Queens- 
land, Sept. 20, 1915, J. C. Bridwell. Allotype, USNM, Sydney, New 
South Wales, Bridwell collection. Paratypes, 1 male, 1 female, 
author’s collection ex USNM, Sydney, New South Wales, Bridwell 
collection. 
Australoconops splendidus (Kréber) 
Conops splendidus Kroéber, Arch. Naturg., vol. 81, Abt. A, Heft 7, p. 63, 1915. 
The cotype is 9 mm. long (without antenna, as are all of my measure- 
ments of the length). Kréber gave the length as 10 to 11mm. The 
other specimens are 8 to 9.5mm. long. None of the specimens have a 
white pollinose mark anterior to the transverse suture. 
MarTERIAL EXAMINED: Herberton, Queensland, Jan. 12, 1910, F. P. 
Dodd, 1 male, cotype, USNM. Sydney, New South Wales, Bridwell 
collection, 7 males, 1 with abdomen missing, 1 female, USN M author’s 
collection and BMNH. Mittagong, New South Wales, Dec. 14, 1900, 
W.W.F., 1 male, USNM. 
