BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1175 
postei’ior branch of the third longitudinal indistinct at its base and 
not quite reaching the border of the wing ; both bi’anches of the 
fourth longitudinal not quite reaching the posterior border ; 
anterior branch of the second longitudinal at an angle of 45°, its 
base situated at a point rather more than one-third the distance 
from the tip of the first longitudinal to the tip of the second 
longitudinal ; auxiliary vein joining the costa a little beyond the 
tip of the marginal cross-vein. 
Hah . — Sydney (Skuse). September. 
Ohs . — T have only seen a single specimen. 
147. Platyura conformis, sp.n. 
— Length of antennse 0’047 inch ... 1-23 millimetres. 
Expanse of wings 0-150 x0'045 .. 3-81 x 1-13 
Size of body 0-180x0-040 4-56 x 1-01 
Antennse shorter than the thorax ; joints of the scapus brown ; 
flagellar joints black or very deep brown, last joint with a very 
small nipple-shaped projection. Hypostoma, proboscis, and palpi 
brown. Front and vertex black. Thorax black, somewhat 
ochraceous at the humeri and indistinctly so along the lateral 
borders, densely covered with a short black pubescence, setaceous 
on the lateral borders about the humeri, the margin of the wings, 
and near the scutellum ; scutellum black, fringed with black 
seta}. Pleurae and metathorax black. Halteres yellow, sparsely 
fringed with very short hairs on the stem, microscopically pubes- 
cent. Abdomen black on the dorsal segments, the second to the 
fifth segment indistinctly bordered posteriorly with a very narrow 
band of sordid ochraceous, underneath ochraceous, sometimes 
ferruginous-ochraceous ; lameihe of the ovipo.sitor deep brow)i. 
Coxae pale ochraceous, the fore pair not setose, densely covered 
in front with a very short black pubescence, the intermediate and 
hind pairs more or less pubescent towards the apex; femora dusky 
ochraceous on account of their dense pubescence, brownish at the 
base; tibiae and tarsi dusky, almost black. Tibial spurs black. Jn 
