AUSTRALIAN CONOPID FLIES—-CAMRAS 69 
Australoconops aptatus (Walker) 
Conops aptata Walker, List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection 
of the British Museum, vol. 3, p. 675, 1849. 
The first specimen listed is 12 mm. long. The other is 15 mm. 
MATERIAL EXAMINED: Western Australia, 1 female, author’s 
collection ex BMNH. Yallingup near Cape Naturaliste, south 
Western Australia, Sept. 14 to Oct. 31, 1913, R. E. Turner, 1 female 
(determined by Brunetti), BMNH. 
Australoconops aequatus (Walker) 
Conops aequata Walker, List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection 
of the British Museum, vol. 3, p. 675, 1849. 
Conops piceus Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 7, p. 48, 1887. 
Kroéber called the female aequatus and the male piceus. 
MATERIAL EXAMINED: Yallingup near Cape Naturaliste, south 
Western Australia, Sept. 14 to Oct. 31, 19138, Nov. 1913, R. E. Turner, 
8 males, 8 females (1 male and 2 females determined as aequatus by 
Brunetti, 1 male determined as piceus by Kréber), BMNH, author’s 
collection, and USNM. Dongarra, Western Australia, Sept. 6-19, 
1935, R. E. Turner, 1 male, 1 with abdomen missing, BMNH. 
Australoconops sydneyi, new species 
Description: Male: Length 8 mm. Head black. Vertex except 
tubercle dark reddish. An area on the face on each side of facial 
grooves yellow. Anterior orbit gold pollinose; posterior orbit and 
lower facial grooves white pollinose. Antennae black, rufous at base 
of third segment. First segment three times as long as wide. Second 
segment nearly two times as long as first. Third segment 1 times 
length of first. Second segment of arista slightly produced. Pro- 
boscis black, 14 times length of head. 
Thorax black. Gold pollinose on humeri and adjacent dorsum 
which connects with a white pollinose pleural stripe. Metanotum 
partly white pollinose. Coxae dark reddish black, yellow white 
pollinose. Femora, apices of tibiae, and distal tarsi black. Most of 
tibiae yellow and gold pollinose. Proximal tarsi, pulvilli, and claws 
except black tips dark yellow. Wings hyaline. Brown pattern from 
costa to fifth vein, paler in costal cells. Hyaline in posterior half of 
first posterior cell and distal half of discal cell. Calypters yellow. 
Halteres yellow, brown at base. 
Abdomen black. Gold pollinose on second segment except for 
anterior one fourth, on third segment except for anterolateral triangle, 
in a crescent shaped area on the fifth segment, and on most of the sixth 
segment. Seventh segment and genitalia shiny reddish black. 
Tyrre: Holotype, male, USNM 64920, Sydney, New South Wales, 
Bridwell collection. 
