. Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania . Legsyellow, with the knees of posterior pair and apical tarsaljoints darkened. Wings tinged with brown, except for aperfectly hyaline spot between the pale brown stigma and thecubital fork; space within the cubital fork distinctly brown ;discal cell emitting four posterior veins, the third extendingbarely half-way to the wing margin ; cubital vein distinctlycurved, with the fork large; costal margin of wing sinuated. The distinctions between this and the previous specieshave already been referred to. This species is scarce. I have onl
. Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania . Legsyellow, with the knees of posterior pair and apical tarsaljoints darkened. Wings tinged with brown, except for aperfectly hyaline spot between the pale brown stigma and thecubital fork; space within the cubital fork distinctly brown ;discal cell emitting four posterior veins, the third extendingbarely half-way to the wing margin ; cubital vein distinctlycurved, with the fork large; costal margin of wing sinuated. The distinctions between this and the previous specieshave already been referred to. This species is scarce. I have only come across a singlespecimen, which I swept from grass growing in a small tarnin the hills at Bagdad, on January 25, 19LS. 52 THE DIPTERA-BRACHYCERA OF TASMANIA, Subfamily AntissinSB. 7. Antissella, Gen. metallic flies. Antennae nearly twice the length ofliead ; eyes joinincr and hairy in the male, widely separatedand practically bare in the female; scutellum unarmed orwith rudimentary spines ; wings with costal margin inflatedin the Fig. 4. Wing of Antissella parvidentata 9. Hend broader than long. AntennaB situated ab-ut themiddle of *be head in profile, and nearly twice the length ofthe head ; first and second joints f almost equal hngth, andsomewhat cup-shaped, third jidnt anuulated, rather longerthan the first two joints togetiier, ;ind provided with a bluntstyle. Eyes joining and hairy in the male, widely separated,and almost bare in the female. Thorax broadening behind;scutelluu) unarmed or with rudimi nlary spines, whose posi-tion is merely indicated bv a serration of the margin of thescutellum. Al)don)en somewhat ovate, considerably broaderand a little longer than the thorax. Lf^-gs simple. Wingswith the mediastinal and subcostal veins apparently coalesceiit,the radial very indistinct, the culiital with a long fork, thelower branch being slighly longer than the stem, and morethan twice the length of the upper l»ranch ; discal cell withfour issuing
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