64 DIPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 



deep i-eddish-ljvown, levigate, with two longitudinal rows of 

 yellowish hairs running about parallel to one another from the 

 collare to the scutellum ; collare and pleurie red ; scutellum 

 reddish-brown with yellowish hairs ; metathorax red. Halteres 

 pale reddish-brown, the tip of the club and base of the stalk 

 yellowish ; the club elongate. Abdomen red with darker scales, 

 and a row of semi-erect hairs on the hind border of each segment ; 

 rather paler between the segments ; ovipositor long, light umber 

 brown, the point reddish-yellow. Legs short and slender. Fore 

 coxse sordid yellow ; hind and middle coxae reddish. Fore and 

 middle femora and tibije, also the hind tibise, sordid yellow ; hind 

 femoi'a reddish-yellow. Tarsi cinereous. Articulations tinged 

 with reddish. Wings hyaline, with tine pale puljescence, and a 

 pale rosy reflection when viewed at a certain obliquity. The 

 costal and two first longitudinal veins chestnut-brown ; second 

 longitudinal sti'ong, almost straight, joining the costal consider- 

 ably before the apex of the wing ; transverse vein almost invisible, 

 not very oblique ; third longitudinal vein most indistinct, anterior 

 branch nearly straight. (Description drawn from fresh specimen). 

 Hah. — Elizabeth Bay (Masters). Beginning of January. 



8. Cecidomyia regilla, sp.n. 



9. — Length of antennfe 0-020 inch ... 0-50 millimetre. 



Expanse of wings 0040x0-017 ... 1-01 x 0-42 



Size of body 0-035x0-010 ... 0-88x0-25 



Antennae pale-brown, 2- -f 11 -jointed, joints cylindrical, sessile, 

 one half longer than broad, verticils somewhat sparse, moderately 

 long, greatly appressed to the joints longitudinally; terminal joint 

 very little smaller than any of the preceding ones, without any 

 terminal process. Hypostoma and front yellowish-brown. Palpi 

 moderately long, slender, yellowish-brown. Thorax dull black, 

 with two rows of yello^vish-b^own hairs extending from the 

 humeri to the scutellum. Poisers short, thick, the stalk pale at 

 the base, with a dense covering of short black squamose pubes- 

 cence to the base of the club ; club large, apex scattered with 



