divided into 5 segments from the anterior corners of which (except of the 1st) arise bristle-like hairs; the 1st of these segments is bare and brown in colour, the remainder having a vestiture of dense light-brown pile, the apical terminating in a pair of indistinct and short brown bristles. Posterior orbits broad, black, and hairy; occiput shiny black and flat.

Dorsum and scutellum shiny black with a covering of greyish hairs; scutellar spines black, short, and indistinct; pleurae brownish and slightly hairy; halteres brownish.

Wings shorter and blunter than preceding species, clouded with brown, but darker anteriorly than posteriorly with clear intercellular spaces; stigma darker brown but a clear space separating the pigment from the 2nd vein; veins brown; all the veins on posterior half excepting the 5th longitudinal weaker than those on anterior half; subcostal cell more or less clear except for a cloud along auxiliary vein as far as bend at apex; a clear space at the anterior apical corner of 1st basal cell, the colour also being separated from the 1st vein; in the 2nd basal cell is a more or less clear space apically, while these two basal cells are separated by a clear line, the vein being here obsolete; clearer spaces at apex of anal cell, in discal cell, in the posterior cells (that of the 1st posterior cell being in the form of a median line), and in the 1st submarginal cell at the costa. Costa curved outwards along costal cell, which is thus somewhat widened; auxiliary vein sinuated, 1st section of 3rd vein about twice as long as anterior cross-vein; 3rd vein slightly down-curved along posterior branch; the anterior branch arising at right angles and strongly curved to the costa (fig. 22); apex of discal cell slightly beyond the line of end of 2nd longitudinal vein; the 1st, 3rd (except anterior branch), 5th, and 6th longitudinal veins distinctly bristly.

Legs hairy, slightly stouter than in preceding species; femora and tibiae dark brown, their tarsi brown except proximal portions of protarsi and epitarsi which are greyish-brown; protarsi not quite half as long as the whole joint; posterior femora, tibiae, and protarsi perceptibly thickened; middle and anterior legs more hairy than the posterior, and the lighter portions of the tarsi of these legs somewhat darker than the posterior.

Abdomen ovate, composed of 7 segments, broader than the thorax, apically truncated, and brown in colour. Genitalia (fig. 23) more or less withdrawn; composed of an outer pair of 2-jointed, hairy, claw-like styles (a), while toward the base of each on the inner side is a small pointed and bare chitinous structure; between these outer claws is a pair of shorter, flat, and pointed hairy structures arising from a dome-shaped piece (b). The genitalia were damaged when mounting, so that a fuller account cannot be given.

♂. Length, 4 mm; wing, 4 mm.

Habitat — Wallacetown, October. Captured in the bush by Mr. A. Philpott.

The chief characters which separate saltusans from the preceding species are the angulated eye-margin, hairy flagellum, and hairy legs, the 4 bristly veins, and the position of the apex of the discal cell beyond the end of the 2nd longitudinal vein. Doubtless it will have to be placed in another genus.