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taviensis (Novara, 288) maj^ be the same species , only its legs 

 are less dark , which is also the case with one of my speci- 

 mens. The extent and intensity of the brown color on the wings 

 is variable ; the specimens from New Guinea have most of it. 



NB. This species differs from the typical Slenoplerinae in se- 

 veral important characters and may constitute a separate genus : 

 the scutellum has six bristles, instead of four ; the interrupted 

 sutures on both sides of the mesothorax are not connected by 

 a depression running across the latter ; the thorax is less bulky ; 

 the stigma is shorter, the front coxae likewise ; the small cross- 

 vein is oblique (as in & eques), but the fourth vein does not 

 converge with the third (rather diverges from it). The gutterlike 

 (ovipositor-bearing) fifth abdominal segment of the female, pro- 

 truding from under the fourth , is longer here , and therefore 

 more conspicuous. 



Stenopterina (?) sp. One c/" Kandari , Celebes , April 1874 

 {Beccavi). 



Resembles Dacus ohtrudens Wk. J. Pr. Lin. Soc. Ill, 117 

 (Aru Isl.*^') very much, but, as far as I can judge from a note 

 taken about the type, the coloration of the wings of the latter 

 is exactly like the preceding species , while in the present one, 

 the brown cloud on the posterior crossvein runs across the 

 penultimate section of the fourth vein and includes the anterior 

 crossvein. Generically, the specimen belongs in the same group 

 with the preceding species ; although most of the bristles of the 

 scutellum are broken, I can see the scars of six. 



Cleitamia astrolabe! Boisduval, Faune de 1' Oceanie, 668 {Or- 

 tciMs). Macquart, H. N. Dipt. II, 440, Tab. 19, fig. 4; id. Dipt. 

 Exot. II, 3, 204, Tab. 27, f. 7. 



Van der Wulp, Tijdschr. etc. XI, Tab. IV, f. 12. 



Syn. Jr»oticara triarciiata Walk. J. Pr. Lin. Soc V, 248 (Dorei, N. Guiii.)- 



Twelve c/', two $; Ramoi, N. Guin. June 1872 (L. M. D'Al- 

 bertis); Febr. 1875 (Beccari); Hatam, N. Guinea, .lune 1875 (id.). 



