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dark hairs on il^^ cheeks. Beard dirty white. Palpi small, 

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

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

 Antennce 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. 

 Eyes very hairy. Thorax, scutellum, and abdomen blackish^ 

 the thorax with three distinct grey tomentose stripes. Leffs 

 uniformly blackish brown, and with black pubescence, even 

 on the coxffi. Wings grey, more intense in colour in the 

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

 stigma large, brown ; veins brown. 



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

 Dipt. (1805) \_'J'abanus'] ; Wied. Auss. zweifl. Ins. i. 

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

 Hist. (7) V. pp. 11.2, 119 (1900) ; Froggatt, Science 

 Bull. ISfew South Wales, iii. p. 5 (l^H) [Pangonia]. 

 Pangonia 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. ^NIus. Coll. Two males and three 

 females from Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, in Mr. Frenches 

 Coll. 



Diatomineura jacksoniensis, 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 {Brabg), 53, 55 in Brit. Mus. 

 Coll. 



Two females from Queensland in INIr. 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 antenncp, palpi, and legs. 

 Abdomen mahogany-red with black markings 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 narrow ed at the border ; 

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

 yellow hairs at sides and base of wings. The pa/pi 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. Beaid yellow. 



Length of these females 14-16 mm. Proboscis H mm. 



