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Erephopsis aureohirta, Rioardo, Ann. & ^Nlar. Nat. Hist. (7) 

 V. pp. 112, UG, pi. i. fig. 10 (1903); id. (8j xvi. 

 p. 2.3 (1915). 



Two females from Queensland. 



"Erephopsis doddi, ? , sp. n» 



Type (female) and others fro;ii Warren River, West 

 Australia {TV. D. Dodd). The type is iu the South 

 Au.strali;in Museum. 



A species with shaded transverse veins on the wings. 

 Abdomen testaceous at base with median black spots and 

 blackish at apex an I greyish or reddish segmentations. 

 Antennae blackish. Palpi very small, short, and concave. 

 Legs testaceous and blackish, 



Ijcngth 1.5 mm. 



Face reddish, with grey tomentum and long black hairs, 

 some Avhite ones intermixecL Beard yellowish white. 

 Palfji testaceous, the first joint with long black hairs, the 

 second one conical and concave with curved upper border, 

 and a few short black hairs at apex. Antennce black, the 

 first two joints with long black hairs. Forehead reddish 

 brown with L-rey tomentose sides and with black thick 

 pubescence, broadest anteriorly, being quite a third broader 

 tijan at vertex ; ocelli distinct. Thorax blackish with two 

 narrow, grey, tomentose stripes on anterior half of dorsum 

 only ; pubescence as in E. gemina, Walker, Abdomen very 

 similar to this last species, the third seument with a black 

 spot similar to the one on the second segment; hairs 

 on sides chiefly white, black on the third, fourth and fifth 

 segments ; underside bright testaceous with a few white 

 hairs. Legs testaceous, but blackish on the upper sides of 

 femora ; pubescence black. IVings with the first posterior 

 f;ell closed or slightly open. 



Pelecorrhynehus eristahides, Walker, List Dipt. Brit. !Mus. i. 

 p. 193 (1818) [Silvius] ; Ricai'do, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (7) V. p. 1U2 (1900) ; W^hite, Royal Soc. Tasmania 

 (1915), pt. ii., Diptera Brachycera, p. 22. 



One male from Huron River^ Tasmania (Lea), 



Genus Silvius. 



Mr, Taylor has lately forwarded me a copy of his pfiper 

 (Proceedings Linneau Soc, of New S, Wales, 1915, vol. xl. 



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