BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 119 



brownish-fulvous. Coxa3 hoary grey ; the trochanters black. 

 Remaining joints black, except the base of femora fulvous. 

 Wings with a very pale brownish tint, exhibiting whitish i-eflec- 

 tions when viewed at a certain obliquity ; veins dark brown, 

 fulvous at origin of wing, slightly inf uscated ; stigma brownish. 



Hah. — Tasmania (Macquart) ; Berrima and Piper's Flats, near 

 Sydney (Masters) ; London Bridge, near Tenterfield, New England, 

 N.S.W. (Skuse), four males and one female ; Moonbar, Monaro, 

 and Jindabyne, N.S.W., 3-3500 feet (Helms) ; specimens in Coll. 

 Australian Museum. 



Obs. — Macquart's figure of the antennae is fairly good, but it 

 does not show the last two small joints. 



** Antennte sim2)le. 



Genus 14. Holorusia*, Loew, 



Hblorusia, Loew, Berl. Entom. Zeits. VIL, p. 277, 1863 ; 

 O.-Sacken, Studies L, p. 183, 1886. 



The ultimate section of the second vein very arcuate, so that, 

 in the middle of its course it closely approaches the third, again 

 rising towards the costa. The cross-vein connecting the first with 

 the second vein is obsolete, so that the inner marginal cell 

 coalesces with the outer one ; joints of the antenn?e short, 

 provided with only very minute bristles ; the rest as in Tipula. 



The above is a translation of the definition of this genus as 

 drawn up by Loew. The species now described (from ^ examples) 

 exhibits the following structural chai'acters. Rostrum as long as 

 the head, microscopically pubescent ; nasus distinct. Palpi with 

 the second joint longer than the first or third, slightly thickened 

 towards the apex ; fourth joint long, flagelliform. Antennse 



* Dr. Bergroth (Entom. Tidskr., 1888, p. 140) is of opinion that 

 Holorusia cannot be maintained as a genus distinct from Tipula. On the 

 other hand, Baron Osten-Sacken (Studies I., p. 183) points out that "the 

 true extent and better definition of the genera Stygeropis, Longurio, an^ 

 Holorusia will be obtained only through a general revision of the now very 

 numerous species of Tipula, Eui'opean and exotic." 



