24 Miss G. Ricardo on the 



Erephopsis gemina, ?, Walker, List Dipt. i. p. 138 (1848), 

 \Pangonia] ; Ricardo, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) v. 

 pp. 112, 117 (1900). 



Pangonia testaceomaculata, <$ , Macq. Dipt. Exot., Suppl. iv. p. 325 

 (1849). 



Type (female) from Perth, W. Australia (G. Clifton), 47, 

 109 ; another female from Australia (purchased, Argent, 

 50. 1. 7) ; two females from Perth {H. W. J. Turner), 

 93. 198; one female from Sydney, New South Wales 

 (purchased, Lambert, 47. 73), all in Brit. Mus. Coll. Two 

 females from South Perth {Grant Watson, per Janson), in 

 Mr. Wainwright's Coll. P. testaceomaculata, male (type), in 

 the Verrall Coll. 



$ . A reddish-brown species with reddish legs, black 

 antennae, short stont palpi, very hairy face and forehead, 

 the latter broad. Wings with the posterior cell closed or 

 very narrow, the cross- veins slightly clouded. 

 Length 15 mm. (type), others 12-15 mm. 

 Face reddish, covered with grey tomentum and with 

 long brownish hairs, some white ones intermixed, face 

 slightly convex, cheeks with ashy-grey tomentum. Beard 

 yellowish white. Proboscis over 4 mm. long. Palpi : the 

 second joint orange-rufous with black pubescence, broad, 

 short, and stout, ending in a short point. Antenna blackish, 

 the first two joints with some grey tomentum and many 

 long black hairs on their upper and lower sides. Eyes with 

 very distinct pubescence. Forehead reddish, with some grey 

 tomentum and black pubescence, with a tubercle of the 

 same colour representing the frontal callus, quite a third 

 broader anteriorly than at vertex. Thorax blackish brown, 

 with two lineal grey tcmentose stripes on the anterior half 

 of the dorsum only, sides with whitish long hairs reaching 

 the scutellum ; black on the shoulders, some long black 

 hairs on the dorsum of thorax and on scutellum. Abdomen 

 reddish on the first three segments ; a transverse median 

 black spot on the first segment, on the second an almost 

 square black median spot, the third black on its anterior 

 border, the remaining segments blackish, their posterior 

 borders reddish or slaty grey, with traces of median whitish- 

 haired small spots on the apical segments ; pubescence on 

 dorsum black, at sides chiefly white mixed with some black 

 hairs towards the apex ; underside more largely reddish 

 with white pubescence. Legs reddish with black pubes- 

 cence. Wings clear, slightly yellow at base and fore 

 border. 



