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Body stout. Head and thorax setose. Face broad, flat. Mys- 

 tax seated on a convex tubercle, beset with numerous bristles. Pro- 

 boscis short, stout, straight, lanceolate. Third joint of the antennae 

 slender, nearly linear, rather longer than the first and the second 

 together. Abdomen rather short, tapering from the base to the tip, 

 thinly clothed with hairs. Leg's, stout, bristly, not hairy ; femora nut 

 thicker than the tibiae. Fore fork of the cubital vein curved forward ; 

 hind fork almost straight, slightly inclined to the first externo-medial, 

 but at some distance from it on the border; first externo-medial 

 nearly straight; second slightly curved ; third forming a very obtuse 

 angle with the proebrachial, inclined towards the fourth, but remote 

 from it on the border. Subanal very near the anal on the border. 



L. Amaracus, Walk. 



153. Laphria Tectamus. 

 Laphria Tectamus, Cat. of Diptera, Pt. 2, 374. 

 New Holland. 



154. Laphbia splendidissima. 



Obscure anea ; antenna et pedes nigra ; abdomen splendidissime 

 ceneum, fasciis linearihus luteis ; alee fuscescentes. 



Laphria splendidissima, Wied. Auss. Zweifl. ii. 645, 64. 



New Holland. 



155. Laphria rufifemorata. 



Foem. Nigra; abdomen cyaneum ; femora fulva; alee fuscm. 

 Laphria rufifemorata, Macq. Dipt. Exot. Suppl. 1 , 73, 24, pi. 7, f. 16. 

 Tasmania. 



156. Laphria Telecles. 

 Laphria Telecles, Cat. of Diptera, Pt. 2, 376. 

 New Holland. 



157. Laphria Amaracus. 

 Laphria Amaracus, Cat. of Diptera, Pt. 2, 380. 

 New Holland. 



Country unknown. 

 A. Alae nigra?, ant fusco-nigra. 

 A. Corpus submetallico nigrum. - - melanoptera, Wied. 



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