BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 141 



Abdomen deep lirown, almost Mack, sealed, with a very minute 

 pubescence on the terminal segment. Legs short and slender, of 

 a uniform dusky yellow colour, with only the tarsi densely 

 pubescent, and all the joints of almost uniform thickness. First 

 tarsal joint twice the length of the second. Wings pellucid, with 

 a very faint Ijluish tint, densely covered with scaly hairs with a 

 slight intermixture of fine simple haii'S, densely ciliated, and 

 having a bright almost silvery I'eflection. First longitudinal not 

 very distinct, invisible shortly after leaving the cross-vein ; second* 

 longitudinal vein somewhat crooked before the cross-vein, but not 

 sinuose, renching the wing-margin just beyond the apex, its basal 

 portion about six times the length of the cross-vein ; cross-vein 

 pale, indistinct anteriorly ; third longitudinal not distinguishable ; 

 fourtli longitudinal vein very distinct until just before joiuing the 

 posterior border, when it becomes most indistinct ; anterior branch 

 invisible. (Description drawn from dried specimen). 

 Hah. — Elizabeth Bay (Masters and Skuse). 



94. Campylo-myza Sydneyensis, Schiner. 



Campylomyza Sydneijensis, Schiner, Diptera der Mo\aia- 

 Expedition, Zool. Theil. Bd. II., p. 7. 



" Shining bhick, the legs very dark pitchy brown. Antennro 

 moniliform, 2- -f- 1 '2-jointed, the flagellar joints pressed to one 

 another, almost of equal length, only the last double the length of 

 tho preceding ones, and considerably narrower than the latter; 

 the hairs very delicate. Palpi blackish-brown, the second joint 

 very long and robust, standing ofV angularly from the first, the 

 two last small. The leg.s, and jmrticularly the thighs, strong ; the 

 la«t joint of the tarsi shmder and much longer than the [(receding. 

 Wings almost hyaline, microsco[)ically haired ; tin* veins normal, 

 l»ut the cros.s-vein is not very distinct, and tluire appears betsveeii 

 the discoidal and the postical, towards the margin of the wing, a 

 piece of a vein, wliich must bf regarded ivs a rudiment of the 

 lower branch of the discoidal. The terminal lamella! of tin- ^ 

 brown." 



\"'. — Sydney. 



