DIPTERA. 371 
Genus SAPROMYZA, Meigen. 
Sapromyza tTincta, Mas. 
Testacea ; caput flarum; abdomen ovatum, thorace multo brevius ; ale 
sublimpide, ad costam subfulve. 
Testaceous, clothed with black hairs and bristles: head pale yellow: 
mouth and palpi black: feelers tawny? abdomen oval, much shorter than 
the chest: feet darker than the shanks: wings almost colourless, with a 
slight tawny tinge along the fore border: veins tawny, darker towards the 
tips; middle cross-vein clouded with brown; lower cross-vein almost 
straight, slightly oblique: halteres yellow. Length of the body 23 lines ; 
of the wings 6 lines, 
South Australia. 
SAPROMYZA METALLICA. 
Viridis ; caput fulvum ; pedes fulvi, antici picet; ale fulve. 
Metallic-green: head tawny; epistoma ferruginous: mouth pitchy; 
palpi tawny: third joint of the feelers oval, more than twice the length of 
the second; sixth black, pubescent, more than twice the length of the third; 
chest with a slight hoary covering: abdomen oval, not longer than the 
chest; tip cross-vein straight, slightly oblique. Length of the body 23 
lines; of the body 53 lines. 
New South Wales. 
SaPROMYZA LATERALIS, Foam. 
Fulva ; caput et pectus flava; facies alba; scutellum piceum ; abdomen 
piceo maculatum ; ale subcineree. 
Tawny, beset with black bristles: head yellow, face white: third joint 
- of the feelers conical, more than twice the length of the second; sixth 
joint black, feathered, more than twice the length of the third: seutcheon 
pitehy : breast yellow: abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest ; seg- 
ments with pitchy spots on euch side: wings slightly gray; veins tawny ; 
