556 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 



Rostrum and palpi brown. Antennae comparatively short 

 for a member of this j^roup, if bent backward not attaining 

 the wing-root ; scapal segments brown, basal flagellar seg- 

 ments obscure yellow ; intermediate segments indistinctly 

 bicolorous, the basal half of each segment being infuscated ; 

 terminal flagellar segments uniformly infuscated; flagellar 

 segments subcylindrical. Head dull grey. 



Mesonotum light greyish brown, unmarked. Pleui'a 

 clear grey, bordered above and beneath by a broad, dark 

 brown, longitudinal stripe, the dorsal stripe beginning at the 

 cervical sclerites, passing above the root of the halteres to 

 the abdomen ; ventral stripe occupying the sides of the 

 mesosternum ; the dark stripes only a little narrower than 

 the grey strij^e enclosed. Halteres dark brown, the base of 

 the stem yellowish, the knobs whitish. Legs with the coxae 

 pale, the basal half infuscated ; trochanters yellowish testa- 

 ceous ; femora and tibiae yellow, the femoral bases a little 

 darkened ; tarsi brown. Wings with a strong brown tinge, 

 the stigmal region dai'kened ; veins brown; macrotrichiae 

 on wing-surface mostly pale, those along the cord, at origin 

 of Rs and less distinctly elsewhere on wing dark brown, the 

 effect produced being a very indistinct mottling. Venation : 

 Sci ending opposite r, Sc^ immediately beyond the origin of 

 Rs ; R-2+3 at a marked angle to the end of Rs, about twice 

 as long as the deflection of Ri_^5 ; r immediately before the 

 fork of i?2+3- 



Abdomen light brown, the lateral margins of the tergites 

 broadly and conspicuously velvety black ; sternites pale 

 brownish yellow. Male hypopygium large and complicated. 



Hab. North Queensland. 



H'dotype, ($ , Kuranda, Cairns District, altitude 1100 feet, 

 April 1921 (A. P. Dodd). 



" Ex scrub.'' 



Gnophomyia gloria, sp. n. 



General coloration black with steel-blue reflections ; head 

 and thoracic i)leura with a blue-grey bloom ; legs dark 

 brown, the bases of the tarsi yellow ; wings dark brown, 

 cross-banded with whitish hyaline, the extreme wing-tip 

 narrowly darkened ; cell 1^/ M^ sessile to short-petiolate. 



Male. — Length 4-4-5 mm. ; wing 4*7-5 mm. 



Female. — Length 5*4-6'2 mm.; Aving 4*8-5"5 mm. 



Coloration generally similar in the two sexes, in this 

 respect difl"ering from the two other members of this group, 

 G. fascipennis (Thoms.) and (i. cijanoceps, Alex. 



