BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
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marginal cross-vein ; first longitudinal vein reaching the costa 
opposite to the base of the third submarginal cell ; anterior branch 
of the second longitudinal vein pale, at an inclination of about 45 °, 
its tip joining the costa at a point about 3 - of the distance from the 
tip of the first longitudinal vein to the tip of the second longi- 
tudinal ; costal vein extending beyond the tip of the second longi- 
tudinal vein about f of the distance from that to the tip of the 
anterior branch of the fork. 
Hah . — Knapsack Gully (Skuse). October. 
SF-CTION II. 
Sub-section VI.— SCTOPHILIK^. 
Genus 13. ScioPHiLA, Meig. 
Sciojihila, Meigen, Syst. Beschr. I. 1818, p. 245 ; Macquart, 
S. aB. Dipl. I. 1834, p. 136; Curtis, Brit. Ent. XIV. 1837, 
p. 641 ; Staeger, Kr. Tidsskv. 1840, p. 270; Zetterstedt, Dipt. 
Scand. XI. p. 4101 ; Walker, Ins. Brit. Dipt. III. 1856, p. 36; 
W. z.-b. G. Wien, XIII. 1863, p. 707. 
Head small, flattened on the fore part, sitting deep in the thoi’ax, 
of rounded oval shape owing to its high vertex. Eyes remote in 
both sexes, oval, a little einarginate on the inner side above. Ocelli 
three, arranged near one another in a ti'iangle on the broad front, 
the anterior one very small. Proboscis very short, not prominent. 
Hypostoma more or less broad. Palpi prominent, incurved, four- 
jointed, the first joint very small, the second sliorter than the third, 
the fourth as long or longer than all three together, seldom shorter 
than them. Antennae projecting forwards, arcuated, tho.se of the $ 
always longer than those of the in the latter often only as long as 
the head and thorax together, somewhat compressed, 2- -t- 14-jointcd ; 
joints of the scapus distinct, cyathiform, setose at the apex ; 
flagellar joints cylindrical, with downy ])ubescence. Thorax highly 
arched, oval; .scutellum small, semi-circular; metathoiax acclivous. 
Halteres with an oblong clul). Al)domen slender, with seven 
