1190 
DIPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 
segments, narrowed at the base, generally claviform especially in 
the somewhat flattened jx>steriorly ; in the male terminating 
in a short forceps, in the 9 hi a short non-projecting ovipositor 
■with tvvo terminal lamellae. Legs long ; femoi’a with a fringe of 
hair on the under side ; tibiae spurred, the fore pair with two, the 
hind pair with three i*anges of lateral spines, of which those on the 
inner side are particularly short and delicate ; coxae elongated, the 
fore pair hair}" on the front, the intermediate pair only at their 
apex, the hind pair with a range of setaceous haii-s on the outer 
side ; in the ^ of some species the a[jex of the intermediate coxae 
on the inner side has a long arcuated spine, these spines terminate 
in a double hook-shaped curved point, usually of a dark colour. 
Wings microscopically pubescent, longish-oval, with rounded oft' 
ba.se, a little longer than the abdomen. Tip of the costal vein 
uniting -with the tip of the second longitudinal vein at the apex of 
the wing, i-arely before it ; auxiliary vein terminating in the costa 
not beyond the anterior branch of the second longitudinal vein ; 
base of the second posterior cell lying either before, under or 
beyond the origin of the third longitudinal vein, but always before 
the base of the third submarginal cell, and never so far forward 
as to come under the anterior branch of the second longitudinal 
vein; fifth longitudinal vein incomplete, usually broken oflF opposite 
the middle of the second posterior cell, sometimes disapj>eaiing 
before the base of the second posterior cell. 
156. SciOPHiLA PAR, Walker. 
Sdophila par, Walker, Insecta Saundersiana, Yol. T. Diptera, 
1856, p. 417. (Div. a. bbbb. Ins. Brit. Dipt. 111. 36). 
“(J . — Fusca ; anteniKx. nigroe, hast testacece; tJioracis fascioe duce, 
latera ptctusque, testacea ; abdominis segmenta rnarginihus posticis 
apiceque testaceis ; pedes testacei, tihiis ohscurioribus, tarsis nigri- 
cantibus ; aloe svhhyalincR apice sub-cinerecje, areola cubitali la et 
vence svd>-apicalis furca infmcatis, venis nig'ris ; Italteres testacei. 
“ Brown. Palpi, two stripes on the thorax, sides, pectus, tip of 
the abdomen and hind borders of the segments testaceous. 
