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dark Lairs on the cheeks. Beard dirty white. Palpi small, 

 the second joint shorter thau the first joint, broad and con- 

 cave, ending in a shout fine point with long dark hairs below. 

 Antenna blackish, the first two joints with long black hairs. 

 Forehead same colour as face, a little wider anteriorly, about 

 five times as long as it is broad, with dark thick pubescence. 

 Kyes very hairy. Thorax, scutellum, and abdomen blackish, 

 the thorax with three distinct grey tomentose stripes. Legs 

 uniformly blackish brown, and with black pubescence, even 

 on the cox se. Wings grey, more intense in colour in the 

 cells, the first posterior cell closed far from the border; 

 stigma large, brown ; veins brown. 



Diatomineura aurifua, Donovan, Gen. Illustr. Ent. Hym. et 

 Dipt. (1805) [Tabanus~] ; Wied. Auss. zweifl. Ins. i. 

 p. 194 (1848) [Pangonid] ; Ricardo, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (7) v. pp. 112, 119 (1900) ; Froggatt, Science 

 Bull. New South Wales, iii. p. 5 (1911) \_Pangonia~]. 

 Pangonw solida, Walker, List Dipt. i. p. 141 (1848). 

 Females from Sydney, New South Wales, or Moreton 

 Bay, Queensland ; from Port Stephen, New South Wales, 

 and Tasmania in Brit. Mus. Coll. Two males and three 

 females from Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, in Mr. French's 

 Coll. 



Diatomineura jaehsoniensis, Guerin, Voyage dela ' Coquille,' 

 ii. pt. 2, p. 289 (1830) ; Atlas, Ins. pi. xx. 3 ; Ricardo, 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) v. pp. 113, 118 (1900). 



One female from Melbourne (Braby), 53, 55 in Brit. Mus. 

 Coll. 



Two females from Queensland in Mr. French's Coll. 



These females appear to belong to this species, judging 

 from the original description. 



Guerin gives the length as 17 mm. 



A stout species with orange-rufous antenna>, palpi, and legs. 

 Abdomen mahogany-red with black markiugs and very 

 narrow golden-haired segmentations, chiefly confined to the 

 middle of the posterior segments. The wings are large, grey, 

 with the first^posterior cell slightly narrowed at the border ; 

 no appendix. The thorax is blackish brown, with tufts of 

 yellow hairs at sides and base of wings. The palpi are long, 

 almost half the length of the proboscis, the second joint 

 wide and concave at base, ending in a long slender point. 

 Forehead parallel, covered with yellowish-grey tomentum and 

 with an obscure ill-defined frontal callus. Beard yellow. 



Length of these females 14-16 mm. Proboscis 1^ mm. 



