BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 121 



Brown, opaque. Front, upper side of rostrum and second joint 

 of scapus yellowish. Thorax margined anteriorly with a sericeous 

 yellow line ; traversed by three more or less distinct yellowish 

 lines ; intermediate one extending from pronotum to suture ; 

 lateral ones sinuose, sometimes interrupted behind humeri, start- 

 ing immediately below pronotum ; deep brown between the last 

 stripes and lateral margin; pleurte sordid ochreous, with a longi- 

 tudinal brown or brownish stripe from collare to base of halteres ; 

 pectus with brown markings. Abdomen : the segments with the 

 posterior and lateral margins paler ; ^ genitalia with yellow ap- 

 pendages. Legs brownish-yellow, the femora with a broad ring of 

 black or deep brown at the tip. Wings with a pale brownish 

 tint ; the costal cell and stigma rather da rker ; the tip of wing and 

 (especially) the transverse fold with a pale reflection ; veins brown, 

 tile fifth longitudinal vein and great cross-vein clouded at their 

 j uncture. 



Hab. — Mulgrave Kiver, Northern Queensland (Froggatt) ; 

 Buderim Mountains, Queensland (C. J. Wild), one sx>ecime7i in 

 Coll. Queensland Museum. December. 



Ohs. — I have seen only three specimens of this elegant Tipulid. 



421. HoLORUSiA LATERALIS, Walker. 



Ti-pula lateralis, Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus. I., p. 70, 1848. 



" Ferruginea, flavo varia, thorace fitsco trivittato, abdomine 

 /usco, antennis ferrugineis, pedibus fioscis, femoribits basi tibiisque 

 apice fulvis, alls subfiiscis vittis nonnullis fere obsoletis limpidis, 

 margine antico fitlvo." jm 



" Head yellow ; its crown ferruginous : mouth ferruginous : 

 palpi black: feelers ferruginous: chest ferruginous, with three 

 light brown lines along its back ; fore border and sides bright pale 

 yellow, inclining to white : abdomen brown : legs brown ; tips of 

 shanks, and thighs from base to beyond middle, tawny : wings 

 slightly brown, with a few indistinct narrow colourless longitu- 

 dinal lines ; fore borders tawny ; veins brown : poisers tawny, 





