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Prostigmatic and propleural setae red. All mesopleural hair and pteropleural 
vestiture yellow or golden orange. Scutum without submedian white spots. 
Mesonotum extensively tinged with light mauve-pink colour. Abdomen of both 
sexes with transverse row of many small median ane setae on T3. 9 abdomen 
without white spots. [Tasmania] . ‘ . R. subtustomentosa 
— Vestiture of fore coxae all black or with at least the main 1 bristling black. Bristling of 
fore femora black. Prostigmatic and propleural setae black. Mesopleural hair 
partly or completely black, pteropleural vestiture partly black (at least the 
strongest hairs black). Scutum with a pair of submedian white pollinose spots (in 
addition to supra-alar pair), sometimes faintly marked. Mesonotum not exten- 
sively mauve-pink, sometimes coppery pink in prescutellar area. Abdomen 
normally without or with only one pair of median marginal setae on T3 (occasional 
specimen with row of four or five such setae developed). 9 abdomen with some 
diffuse white pollinose spots, usually including a pair of submedian spots on each 
intermediate tergite (sometimes only visible as fly is turned) ; 2 
2 Hair of sternopleuron pale yellow. Hair of abdominal venter entizely pale yellow 
(6) or pale yellow ventrally on Tr + 2 and T3 (9). Hair of coxae partly or mainly 
orange or golden red. At least some of snakes hair yellow. [A.C.T. and 
New South Wales] : . R. micans 
— Hair of sternopleuron eaelyie or oie bea Hom of eatire abdoauaal venter 
black (both sexes). Hair of coxae entirely or almost entirely black. All meso- 
pleural hair black . : 3 
3 Size smaller, length 10-12 mm. Mesouotam aan metallic eneadd: ceceea or poled 
green, without noticeable darker vittae when seen by naked eye. Lower half of 
postorbit bright golden orange or yellow and upper part silvery white, transition 
of the colouring rather abrupt. [Queensland] . : : R. albovirida 
[Only known from 9, possibly not specifically distinct fom dopsormannae 
— Size larger, length 12-18 mm. Mesonotum not brilliantly shining, sometimes green 
but more often very dark olive-green to greenish brown and with some darkish vittae 
evident to naked eye. Upper half of postorbit pale yellowish and not strongly 
contrasting in colour with yellow or orange-yellow lower half, if upper part rather 
white then normally not abruptly contrasted in colour with lower part (transition 
of colouring more gradual). [New South Wales] . : : R. dorsomaculata 
Subgenus MICRORUTILIA Townsend 
Microrutiia Townsend, 1915 : 23. Type-species: Rutilia minor Macquart, 1846, by original 
designation. 
Prosenostoma Townsend, 1932 : 39. Type-species: Senostoma flavipes Brauer & Bergenstamm 
sensu Townsend (misidentification) [=Rutilia (Senostoma) hirticeps Malloch], by original 
designation. Syn. n. 
Eucompsa Enderlein, 1936: 400. Type-species: Rutilia minoy Macquart, 1846, by original 
designation. [Isogenotypic synonym of Microrutilia Townsend and junior homonym pre- 
occupied by Eucompsa Enderlein, 1922 (Tabanidae)]. 
Pogonagalmia Enderlein, 1936 : 435. Type-species: Rutilia (Senostoma) hirticepbs Malloch, 
1929, by original designation. Syn. n. 
[Senostoma sensu authors, not Macquart. Misidentification.] 
Diacnosis. Parafrontals pollinose or almost completely so, at most only metallic at extreme 
upper ends in 9. Epistome and genae not metallic. Facial carina convex on anterior surface, 
and strongly convex and well marked off from lunula in profile, upper part often very bulbous; 
epistome strongly nasute. Parafacials bare or haired. @ proclinate orbital setae in one or two 
pairs, rarely absent. Arista long-pubescent to short-plumose. Humeral callus with 4 setae, 
rather strong. One or two posthumeral setae. Normally two strong post ia setae, occasionally 
