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the length of the penultimate; plume-hairs of antennae deep 

 brown. 



Thorax as in the female. 



Abdomen narrow, brown, with either basal lateral white 

 spots or basal white bands which spread out laterally ; hairy. 



Basal lobes of the genitalia broad and truncated. 



Legs ornamented as in the female ; fore and mid ungues 

 unequal, the larger uniserrated ; hind equal and simple. 



Length. — 4 ■ 5 mm. 



Habitat. — South Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 



Time of capture. — February. 



Observations. — Described from a series of dried and spirit 

 specimens collected and bred by Dr. Bancroft. The larvae were 

 taken in a fresh-water well near Dr. Bancroft's house at Bupen- 

 gary. It does not appear to bite man. 



The larvae were found with those of S. notoscripta, Skuse, 

 and G. fatigans, Wiedemann. 



It is a very marked species, easily told by the leg-banding, 

 and the thoracic and abdominal ornamentation. 



The thorax is subject to some variation, owing partly tc* 

 denudation of the golden scales. The abdomen in the male is 

 also variable, the lateral spots often merging so as to form 

 complete basal white bands. Dr. Bancroft has recently written 

 me that this species oviposits singly. 



Genus CARROLLIA. Lutz MS. 



Head with flat scales all over, except for a median basal area 

 and numerous upright forked scales ; scutellum with flat scales 

 to the mid lobe and narrow-curved scales beneath and at edge, 

 narrow-curved scales on lateral lobes ; mesonotum with narrow- 

 curved scales, rather large posteriorly ; palpi of $ thin, acuminate, 

 no hair-tufts, as long as the proboscis ; 5? palpi short. 



Abdomen of $ with the segments deeply constricted basally. 

 Vein scales dense, clavate. 



Allied to Catageiomyia, Theobald, but can be told by the 

 longer $ palpi, deeply notched abdomen beneath and by the 

 cephalic, scutellar and wing squamose characters. 



Dr. Lutz gave me a specimen under this generic name, but 

 I do not think it has been described. 



