BY ROWLAND E. TURNER. 99 



terminal joints of the maxillary palpi are elongate, but not as 

 much so as in the genus Tachynomyia. 

 Hab.— Sydney (Smith). 



8. T. (Zeleboria) proximus, n.sp. 



g. Clypeus a little advanced, rather broadly truncate at the 

 apex, finely punctured; head shallowly punctured on the occiput, 

 finely punctured-rugulose on the front, thinly clothed with fulvous 

 pubescence. Thorax finely and closely punctured; median seg- 

 ment rounded, as broad at the base as long, delicately reticulate. 

 Abdomen subpetiolate, fusiform, shining, the two apical segments 

 punctured. Hypopygium broad at the base, subtriangular, 

 narrowly truncate at the apex, with a strong apical spine. 

 Black; mandibles, anterior margin of clypeus, two minute spots 

 between the antennae, anterior margin of the prothorax narrowly 

 interrupted in the middle, a minute spot on each side before the 

 tegulae, a narrow, longitudinal spot on the scutellum, a trans- 

 verse line on the postscutellum and a spot on each side of the 

 second and third abdominal segments yellow; femora, tibia? , 

 tarsi and tegulae ferruginous. Wings hyaline tinted with yellow, 

 nervures fuscous. Length 11-1 4 mm. 



In another specimen the spots on the third abdominal segment 

 and on the scutellum are absent. 



9. Head strongly narrowed posteriorly, only half as wide on 

 the posterior as on the anterior margin, flat above, flattened and 

 slightly concave on the sides, eyes situated on the sides; the 

 whole head shining, with a few scattered punctures and a short 

 longitudinal sulcus between the antennae. Thorax and median 

 segment sparsely punctured; pronotum nearly square, with a 

 faint median sulcus from the anterior margin to the centre; 

 median segment broadened from the base, obliquely truncate 

 posteriorly. First abdominal segment truncate anteriorly, apical 

 margin depressed, giving an appearance of a transverse carina 

 before the apex; second segment with six strong transverse 

 carinas, including the recurved apical margin; the remaining 

 segments smooth on the basal half, shallowly punctured on the 



