52 DIPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 



5. Cecidomyia Frauenfkldi, Schiner. 



Cecidomyia Frauinfeldi, Schiner, Di|)tera dpr Novara-Expedi- 

 tion, Zool. Theil. Bd. II. p. 7. Taf. 1, fig. 7, $. 



^ and 5. — " Pale reddish-yellow ; the thorax dark brown 

 almost imperceptibly hoary ; the abdomen more or less clouded 

 with black on the upper side, always lighter between the segments. 

 These cloudings of the abdomen show always in a greater degree 

 in the ^ than in the 9- The anal appendages of the 9 split, 

 clubbed. The ovipositor of the 9 much projecting, sharp, pointed, 

 the last joint dark brown. Antennae brownish-yellow, 2- + 18- 

 jointed (these were the numbers counted in the 9, the antennae of 

 all the (J examples had the tip broken off and the most perfect had 

 only 17 joints), the joints in the ^ globose and pedicelled, the 

 pedicel as long as the joint, in the 9 sessile, somewhat depressed in 

 the middle ; the joints with long verticils. Legs pale yellowish, 

 the hindermost very long. Wings with pale-yellow pubescence 

 and yellowish-brown veins ; the sub-costal (first longitudinal) vein 

 before the middle of the wing ; the cubital (second longitudinal) 

 vein joining the margin well before the apex of the wing, its basal 

 part near the base of the wing very indistinct ; the postical (third 

 longitudinal) vein beyond the middle of the wing forked, 

 the upper (anterior) branch set on the posterior branch, then 

 curved forwards, the under (posterior) branch slightly waving, 

 vei'ging into the margin before the middle of the wing." 



f — 1". Sydney. Noveml^er 6th to December 6th. 



" Almost exactly like C. circinas, Giraud." 



According to Schiner's note appended to the description of this 

 species, Frauenfeld bred specimens from rosette-like malformations 

 covering the swollen branch buds of a species of Melaleuca fomid 

 at " Naraby Lagoon," * Port Jackson. The fly emerged from 

 the pupa in about 14 days. 



* Frauenfeld e\'idently means Narrabeen Lagoon. 



