. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. 90 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN the larvae are merely scavengers, feeding on the excretions of the scale insect. Very little is known of the larval habits of the members of the family, and it would be of interest to discover the habits of this and related genera as the re- cords of the few Sapromyzidae available point to their being scavengers, the larvae feeding on or in decaying leaves or humus. Habitat: Holotype, ; Sydney, (Health Department). Family Drosophilidae. Fig. 1, Head of Leucophenga regina, n. sp. Ichthyom
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. 90 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN the larvae are merely scavengers, feeding on the excretions of the scale insect. Very little is known of the larval habits of the members of the family, and it would be of interest to discover the habits of this and related genera as the re- cords of the few Sapromyzidae available point to their being scavengers, the larvae feeding on or in decaying leaves or humus. Habitat: Holotype, ; Sydney, (Health Department). Family Drosophilidae. Fig. 1, Head of Leucophenga regina, n. sp. Ichthyomyia cyprinus, a rather large species belonging to that section in profile. in which the halteres are entirely yellow and the wings distinctly spotted. Head dull fawn coloured, the surface with slight whitish dusting, the ocellar spot fuscous, upper occiput shining dark brown; antennae and palpi pale brownish-yellow. Frons longer than wide, almost parallel- sided, the three orbital bristles quite strong, in a straight series and about equally spaced, the proclinate one at about one-third from anterior margin; outer pair of verticals longer than inner, the latter as long as the upper orbital and slightly longer than the ocellars, the postverticals rather short; surface with some minute spare hairs; gena linear; vibrissa single, well developed; face with a broad low central upper carina; antennae rather large, third segment rounded at apex; arista with about nine upper and four lower long hairs and some short hairs on apical half in front; palpi quite long but only slightly club-shaped; eyes bare. Thorax fawn coloured, but slightly shining, the mesonotum without a trace of vittae, becoming testaceous yellow on sides, where it is similar in colour to the pleurae; scutellum darker brown than mesonotum, pale yellow on sides at base and around the apex. Dorsocentrals 2 pairs, pre- scutellar acrostichals well developed, intradorsocentral hairs strong, in about 8 rather irregular series
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