. Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania . omen lessdense and shorter; abdomen long and pointed, and wingsalmost hyaline. This species occurred commonly in the bush surroundingthe Bagdad Valley during the Spring seasons of 1911 and BY ARTHUR WHITE. 43 1912, but in 1913 I did not meet with a single specimen. Ihave found it on the wine: from September 24 to November males appear some time before the females, and seem tobe the commoner sex. The insects are somewhat sluggish intheir habits; thev may be found settled on bracken andclumps of grass. A nearly allied, undescribed
. Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania . omen lessdense and shorter; abdomen long and pointed, and wingsalmost hyaline. This species occurred commonly in the bush surroundingthe Bagdad Valley during the Spring seasons of 1911 and BY ARTHUR WHITE. 43 1912, but in 1913 I did not meet with a single specimen. Ihave found it on the wine: from September 24 to November males appear some time before the females, and seem tobe the commoner sex. The insects are somewhat sluggish intheir habits; thev may be found settled on bracken andclumps of grass. A nearly allied, undescribed, species occursin New South Wales. 3. Spaniopsis, Gen. flies, with a lengthened proboscis, and shortbroad abdomen ; antennae with the third joint large and pro-duced into a thick subterminal arista ; tibiae without anydistinct spurs; wings with the discal cell angulated below,and emitting four posterior veins; the first, second, andfourth reaching the wing margin, the third reduced to a merestump and sometimes wanting; anal cell Fig. 2. Wing of Spaniopsis tahaniformis. Head broader than the thorax ; eyes in the female (theonly sex known) very widely separated; proboscis stout, withlarge sucker flaps, slightly longer than the head, and twicethe length of the palpi; antennae with the first and secondjoints extremely small; the third large and produced into athickened subterminal arista. Thorax with extremely shortpubescence ; scutellum without spines. Abdomen short andbroad, resembling Ta6a?iws. Legs bare ; tibiae without anydistinct spurs. Wings with a conspicuous stigma; thecubital fork long and narrow ; discal cell (usually) angulatedbelow, and emitting four posterior veins; the first, second,and fourth (which is really the upper branch of the posticalvein) reaching the wing margin, the third reduced to a merestump, and occasionally wanting ; anal cell closed. This curious genus cannot be confounded with any otheroccurring in Tasmania. The four post
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