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and more rugged appearance of the head and scutelluni. The 
genitalia cannot be made out, but the perfect specimens are 
evidently all three males. 
Anisocheleomyia nivipes. — Theobald (1905). 
$ . Head brown, clothed with rather loosely applied creamy 
white flat scales ; the antenna? deep brown, basal segment deep 
reddish-brown ; clypeus brown ; palpi clothed with deep brown 
scales and with a few long black chaetae ; proboscis deep brown, 
with bronzy reflections, swollen apically, hairy. Thorax bright 
brown ; the middle of the meso thorax with narrow-curved 
bronzy-brown scales and three rows of black chaetae, the dark 
scaled area surrounded by thicker creamy-white curved scales, 
forming a well contrasted whitish area, which is indented into 
the dark area on each side in front before the base of the wings ; 
scutellum with small flat dark brown scales and black border- 
bristles, four to the mid lobe ; metanotum bright chestnut-brown ; 
pleurae clothed with dense creamy-white scales continuous with 
the pale areas around the mesothorax. Abdomen deep brown, 
with deep brown scales and creamy-white scaled apical borders ; 
the apical segment all pale scaled ; border-bristles pale. Legs 
deep brown ; coxae and trochanters pale, last two and apex 
of the antepenultimate hind tarsals white ; the fore and mid 
tarsals pale beneath ; ungues unequal in size, but the posterior 
of nearly equal length, the larger fore and mid very broad and 
thick, the smaller abruptly curved basally. Wings ornamented ; 
costa black and spiny ; first long vein black-scaled with a large 
white area over the cross- veins, and a white apex ; a dark area 
on the stem of the first sub -marginal cell and a small dark area 
beneath it on the third, most of the stem of the second fork-cell 
dark, also a dark area in the middle of the upper branch of the 
fifth and at the apex of the lower branch ; the whole forming 
a dusky band across the otherwise pale-scaled wing ; first sub- 
marginal cell about two-thirds the size of the second posterior 
cell, its stein twice as long as the cell ; stem of the second 
posterior slightly longer than the cell ; posterior cross-vein 
longer than the mid cross-vein, and nearly twice its awn length 
distant from it. situated close to the base of the upper branch 
of the fifth vein Lateral scales on the fork-cells and the third 
long vein large and lanceolate, a few very similar ones on the 
apex of the upper branch of the fifth ; median vein scales small 
and dark on the fork-cells, third vein and middle of the upper 
branch of the fifth and the apex of the lower branch ; those 
on the stem of the first fork-cell dark and some of almost etorlep- 
tiomyian-form {i.e., heart-shaped), but more elongate. Halteres 
with pale testaceous stem and fuscous knob. 
Length, 2.5 mm. 
Habitat : South Queensland (Bancroft). 
