1754 
DIPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 
with three oblong whitish spots. Halteres whiti.sh. Length of 
body 3-3|^ lines ; of the wings 6-7 lines.” 
“ Van Diemen’s Land.” 
215. Anopheles musivus, sp.n. 
9 . — Length of antenme O'OSO inch ... 2-02 millimetres. 
Expanse of wings 0-200 x 0’050 ... 5-08 x 1-27 
Size of body 0-230 x 0-040 ... 5-84 x 1-01 
Antennae brown, the joints with a white pubescence and 
verticils, and the second joint of the scapus and following three 
or four fl-agellar joints with white scales ; about the length of the 
palpi ; first joint of the scapus brownish-ochreous. Head brown, 
with Avhite scales on the vertex, from which some long white 
hairs stretch out over the front. Proboscis brown, equal in 
length to the palpi. Palpi covered with violet-black scales, 
second joint with a slight ring of white scales at the apex, last 
three joints with a broad ring of white at the apex, and the second 
and third joints with a longitudinal patch of white above, in the 
second about the middle, in the third on the first third of its 
length. Thorax fuscous-brown, with a slaty-grey reflection, 
imperfectly covered with white scales, beset laterally and pos- 
teriorly with yellow hairs ; pleurae fuscous-brown ; scutellum 
fuscous, ochreous at the sides, densely fringed with long yellow 
hairs j metanotum fuscous. Halteres deep fuscous, the stem 
yellow. Abdomen rather moi’e than twice the length of the 
thorax, fuscous-brown, levigate, rather densely covered witli 
yellow hairs, the last segment with some yellow scales ; lamelhe 
of the ovipositor deep fuscous-brown. Legs covered with violet- 
black scales, the femora and tibiae and sometimes the metatarsus 
spotted with small patches of whitish or pale yellow scales, the 
tibiae and first four joints of the tarsi also very slightly tipped 
with whitish or pale yellow. Coxae ochreous-grey, sprinkled with 
white scales and yellow hairs. In the hind-legs the metatarsus a 
little longer than the tibia. Wings the length of the thorax and 
abdomen taken together, hyaline, slightly tinged with brown at 
