DIPTERA. 399 
wing ; lower cross-vein oblique, with two extremely indistinct curves, the 
lower inward, the upper outward. Length of the body 3} lines; of the 
wings 7 lines. " 
New South Wales. 
Scromyza ausTRALIS, Poem. 
Testacea; antenne fulve, articulo 30 nigro vittato; thorax ferrugineo 
vittatus ; abdomen apice nigricans; ale sublimpide, antice sub- 
Sulve. 
Testaceous: head and chest beset with a few bristles; crown flat ; 
face very slightly convex : eyes bare: mouth ferruginous ; palpi testaceous: 
feelers tawny ; third joint hardly conical, more than twice the length of the 
first and the second, not nearly reaching the epistoma, with a black stripe 
above; sixth black, slender, pubescent, much more than twice the length of 
the third; chest with a ferruginous stripe on the hind part; borders of the 
scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen blackish towards the tip: fore-thighs 
beset with a row of bristles; feet black towards the tips: wings almost 
colourless, slightly tawny along the fore border; veins tawny; middle 
cross-vein and tip of the second longitudinal vein at an almost equal dis- 
tance from the base of the wing; lower cross-vein slightly oblique, slightly 
bent inward in the middle. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 
lines. 
Van Dieman’s Land. 
Scromyza REPLETA, Fom. 
Testacea ; vertex piceo guttatus ; thorax nigro trivittatus ; pectus nigro 
maculatum ; abdomen nigrum, flavo bivittatum ; pedes flavi, femori- 
bus tibiisque nigro bifasciatis ; ale hyaline, fasciis quindecim 
cinereis. 
Testaceous: crown with pitchy dots surrounding the bristles; epi- 
stoma slightly prominent: mouth ferruginous: third joint of the feelers 
long-conical, reaching the epistoma, more than twice the length of the 
second; sixth black, pubescent, bare towards the tip, full twice the length 
