1374 
DIPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 
Obs . — A specimen in the Macleay Museum from Eramaiiga, 
New Hebrides, is not distinguishable from the last variety. Some 
smaller and 9 examples from New Guinea only differ from the 
Eramanga variety in having blacker legs, and the fifth longitudinal 
vein joining the wing-border a little before the tip of the posterior 
branch of the fourth longitudinal vein. 
184. Elecia ornaticornis, sp.n. (PL xxxix., fig. 4, $). 
— Length of antennse 0'030 inch 
Expanse of wings 0*230 x 0 080 
Size of body 0*230 x 0 040 
0*76 millimetre. 
5*84 X 2*02 
5*84 X 1*01 
9 . — Length of antennm 0*040 inch 
Expan.se of wings 0*280 x 0*100 
Size of body 0*230 x 0*045 
1*01 milliniHre. 
7*10x2*54 
5*84 X 1*13 
^ and 9- — Antennse in the shorter than the head, 2- +■ 8- 
jointed, in the 9 RS long as the head, 2- -f 9-jointed, in both cases 
the terminal joint exceedingly small and nipple-shaped, densely 
covei'ed with a minute pubescence, all the joints with vei*y short 
verticils ; first joint of the scapus and all the flagellar joints 
fuliginous, the second joint of the scapus ochraceous. Head, 
eyes, ocelli and palpi dull black ; eyes in the 9 beset with minute 
black hairs. Tborax, pleurie, pectus, scutellum and metathorax 
entirely of a uniform bright ochreous, opaque, with no pubescence. 
Hal teres long and slender, black, the base of the stalk ochre- 
yellow, with a minute pubescence. Abdomen black, almost 
opaque, somewhat shining, densely clothed with black hau’s ; in 
the ^ more .slender than the thorax, and about twice its length, 
in the 9 as wide as, and twice the length of, the thorax ; ^ forceps 
small ; 9 ovipositor short. Legs black except the coxse, the 
latter ochreous nitidous, densely covered with black hairs; tibial 
spurs black ; pul villi pallid. Wings smoky-brown inclining to 
luscous, somewhat darker anteriorly ; in the ^ as long as the 
