BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
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167. Mycetophila .equalis, Walker. 
Mycetophila cequalu, Walker, Insecta Saundersiana, Yol. I. 
Diptera, 1856, p. 415 (Div. A. Meig. Dipt. pi. 9, f. 15; Sub-div. 
a. Yol. YI. p. 297). 
“ — Nigra; antennce hasi testae ea ; thorax guttis duahus anticis 
et abdominis segmenta marginibus posticis testaceis ; pedes testacei, 
femorihus basi fusceseentibus, tar sis fuscis ; alee sub-cinerece, fusco 
bifasciat(B ; halteres testacei. 
“ Black, slightly pubescent. Antenme testaceous at the base. 
Thorax with a minute testaceous dot on each side in front. Hind 
borders of the abdominal segments testaceous. Legs testaceous ; 
femora brownish at the base ; tibite darker than the femora ; tarsi 
brown. Wings greyish, with two irregular brown bands, which are 
darkest towards the costa. Halteres testaceous. Length of the 
body If lines ; of the wings 3^ lines. 
‘‘ Yan Diemen’s Land.” 
168. Mycetophila propria, sp.n. (PI. xxxii., fig. 15). 
— Length of antennae — inch ... — millimetres. 
Expanse of wings 0T60x0‘060 ... 4'06xD54 
Size of body 0T60x0'030 ... 4‘06x0'76 
Antennae lost, except the joints of the scapus ; these are 
ochraceous, the first much longer than the second, both bristly 
at the apex. Head ochraceous-brown, densely covered with shoi t 
golden-yellow hairs ; short brown setie round the hind border 
of the eyes. Hypostoma and palpi ochraceous ; the joints of 
the latter oh follows : first joint small, second rather more 
robust and longer, third less robust than the second and 
about one-fourth longer, fourth slender, somewhat claviform, 
almost as long as the second and third joints taken together 
(PI. XXXI 1. fig. 15a). Thorax ochtaceous-b*-own, densely 
covered with golden-yellow hairs ; deep brown .setie on the 
lateral margins; pleurae light ochraceous-brown; setiferous in front 
of the origin of the wings and above the foie coxie ; scutellum 
