AUSTRALIAN CONOPID FLIES—CAMRAS Ga 
Microconops fasciatus Kréber 
Microconops fasciatus Kréber, Arch. Naturg., vol. 81, Abt. A, Heft 1, p. 79, 1915. 
In the specimens examined the second antennal segment is about 
1% times the length of the first, and the third segment about two 
times the length of the first. Size 5 to 5.5 mm long. 
MATERIAL EXAMINED: Palmerston (Darwin), Northern Territory, 
November, 1 male and 1 female (in coitus), USNM, cotypes. Don- 
garra, Western Australia, Sept. 6-19, 1935, R. E. Turner, 1 male, 
BMNH. 
Microconops ornatus Kréber 
Microconops ornatus Kréber, Arch. Naturg., vol. 81, Abt. A, Heft 1, p. 78, 1915. 
Two lateral ocelli are distinguishable on the ocellar tubercle. 
Length 6.5 mm. 
MATERIAL EXAMINED: Redlynch, northern Queensland, Aug. 10-17, 
1938, R. G. Wind, Papuan-Australian Expedition, 1 male, BMNH. 
Microconops rufefemoris, new species 
Description: Male: Length 9 mm. Most of the head black. 
Upper margin of front dark reddish black. Vertex, upper facial 
grooves and keel, and a small adjacent area on the face yellow. 
Orbits white pollinose. Antennae dark brown. Third segment 
predominantly rufous. Blackish on arista and distal medial part of 
third segment. First segment three times as long as wide. Second 
segment 1% times length of first. Third segment over two times length 
of first. Process on second segment of arista small. Third segment of 
arista globular at base. Proboscis black, 14s times length of head. 
Thorax dull black, faintly yellow pollinose on dorsum more distinct 
on the humeri, scutellum, upper postnotum, and metanotum. Pos- 
terior half of scutellum dark reddish yellow. Pleura faintly white 
pollinose. Coxae black, white pollinose. Femora rufous with a black 
ring at base. Tibiae dark brown, yellow on basal half. Tarsi dark 
brown, partly yellow on proximal segments. Wings brownish hyaline. 
A small blackish mark at the anterior cross vein. Brownish pattern in 
apical half of wing between second vein and vena spuria and along 
the fifth vein. Calypters brownish yellow. Halteres yellow, brown 
at base. 
Abdomen predominantly dull black. Yellow pollinose on distal 
second and third segments and most of the sixth segment. Abdomen 
narrowest at junction of second and third segments, widest at fifth 
and sixth segments where it is nearly three times as wide as the 
narrowest part. 
Types: Holotype, male, USNM 64922, Sydney, New South Wales, 
Bridwell collection. 
