660 DIPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 



T. fungicolfe (Mycetophilidse), and T. latipennes (Simulidae). 

 Macquart (Hist. Nat. Ins. Dip. I., p. 121,) classed Sciara with 

 the T. fungicolse, but Zygon&ura found a place with the T. galli- 

 colse ; he nevertheless remarks that Zygonmra approaches tlie T. 

 fungicoUe by the venation of the wings. Halliday included all 

 three genera, together with the genera constituting the sub-family 

 Lestremina of the Cecidomyidse, amongst the Mycetophilidse. 

 Loew, in 1862 (Mon. Dipt. N. America I., p. 13), also puts 

 Sciara in the Mycetophilidse, but observes that it differs most 

 from the rest of the family, and shows some affinity with Cecido- 

 myidse. With regard to Ejndajnis, this author says that "it is 

 quite impossible to place it among the jNIycetophilida), as Walker 

 does, if we characterize the families as we have done ; it rathei- 

 seems to find its place among the Cecidomyidse." Zygoneura is 

 regarded by both Loew and Osten-Sacken as belonging to the 

 second section of the Cecidomyidse. Again, Schiner admits Sciara, 

 Epidapus and Zygoneura into the Mycetophilidse, the genera of 

 wliich he arranges under two sub-families Sciarina and Myck- 



TOPHILINA. 



Winnertz in 18G7 (V. z.-b. C, Wien, Band XVIII.) came to 

 the rescue, and published a monograph of the European Sciarida;, 

 in which he described 157 new species, and re-described 30 species 

 of previous authors. To this indefatigable Dipterologist we ai-e 

 indebted for an exhaustise investigation of the three genera which 

 had hitherto been the source of such perplexity. Not only did 

 he establish five new genera and characterize the whole as forming 

 a distinct family, but he elaborated a system of classification for 

 the species, and pointed out what characteristics are possessed by 

 the individual parts of their structure. 



The chief divisions of Meigen are split up into sub-divisions 

 based upon the colours of the halteres and palpi, and into further 

 sections by the position of the cross- vein, and into sub-sections by 



