BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 699 



•2| times, and in the liind-legs 3 times the length of the second ; 

 second joint a little longer than the third ; third and fifth joints 

 of about equal length and J longer than the fourth. Wings 

 pellucid, with a pale yellowish-brown tint ; reflecting brilliant 

 ieneous and chalybeous tints when viewed at a certain obliquity. 

 First longitudinal vein reaching the costa a little before the base 

 of the fork ; petiole very indistinct, somewhat shorter than the 

 anterior branch of the fork ; branches pale, running almost 

 parallel, slightly divergent at the tips, the posterior branch very 

 little arcuated at the base, fg about 4 times the length of gh ; 

 kl a little shorter than Im. 



Hah. — Sydney (Skuse). December. 



118. SCIARA SCITULA, Sp.n. 



9. — Length of antennae 0-035 inch ... 0-88 millimetre. 



Expanse of wings 0080 x 0-030 ... 2-02x0-76 



Sizeofbody 0-070x0015 ... l-77x038 



Antennae black or deep brown, with a minute pule pubescence; 

 slender, as long as the head and thorax combined ; joints of the 

 scapus with a very sparse and minute pubescence ; flagellar joints 

 sub-sessile, 2 to 2^ times as long as broad, the terminal joint 

 nearly 4 times as long. Head black, sub-nitidous. Eyes almost 

 contiguous above. Palpi reddish-brown. Thorax Vjlack, sub- 

 nitidous, with three longitudinal double rows of yellowish- 

 brown hairs, the intermediate one somewhat indistinct, reaching 

 only to the middle of the thorax, the lateral ones running 

 almost as far as the posterior margin ; also a row of longer 

 hairs on the lateral margins between the origin of the wings 

 and the humeri ; scutellum with a few moderately long hairs. 

 Halteres pitch-brown, a few short hairs on the club. Ab- 

 domen deep brown appearing almost black, with a short sparse 

 yellowish-brown pubescence, dense at the extremity ; lamellae of 

 the ovipositor deep brown, small, oval. Coxne honey-yellow. 

 Femora, tibiae and tarsi pitch-brown. In the fore- and intermediate- 

 legs the tarsi somewhat longer than the tibiai ; in the hind-legs 



