238 E. W. FERGUSON. 



Cotypes have been deposited in the Australian Museum. 

 I am indebted to Miss Phyllis F. Clarke for the drawings 

 which accompany this paper. 



Spaniopsis tabaniformis, White. 



Plate XXVI, fig. 11. 



White, Royal Society of Tasmania: Papers and Proceedings, 

 1914, p. 44, fig. 2. 



For an opportunity of examining a co-type of White's 

 species, I am indebted to Mr. W. J. Rainbow of the Aus- 

 tralian Museum. 



The species is closely allied to the other members of the 

 genus, and most closely to S. vexans. The colour of the 

 ventral surface is not mentioned by White, but in the 

 specimen before me, is of a greyish-yellow. This, in com- 

 bination with the yellow legs, brings it close to S. vexans, 

 from which it can be readily distinguished by its much 

 larger size. The wings in this specimen appear slightly 

 clouded along some of the veins, much as in some specimens 

 of S. clelandi. This may not be constant; it is always 

 slight in amount and seen only from certain directions. 

 The anal cell is closed immediately before the wing margin 

 to which it is united by a short stem. The intermediate 

 tibiae are spurred as in the other species. 



Spaniopsis vexans, n. sp. 



Plate XXVI, figs. 6, 10. 



? Resembling S. tabaniformis but considerably smaller. 

 Thorax brownish with three darker longitudinal lines; 

 abdomen dark brown with narrow paler apical bands ; venter 

 yellow; legs yellow; tarsi infuscate. 



Face light grey, front dark brown. Proboscis black. Palpi 

 yellow. Antennae black; first and second joints short, the 

 second joint rather shorter than the first, third joint 



