In Wiener entom. Zeitung 1889, p. 117—118 I have de- 

 scribed, without naming it, a remarkable Tipulid from 

 S. W. Finland, forming a new genus of the division Eriopte- 

 rinae. I then knew only the male sex, but since that time 

 I have received specimens of both sexes also from Central 

 Sweden, communicated by Dr. E. Wahlgren, and below 

 I give a complete description with figures of it. In the 

 wing-venation the genus comes near to the Northamerican 

 Cladura 0. S., but the antennae are very different, agreeing 

 in the number of their joints and to a certain degree in 

 their structure with those of the genus Conosia v. d. Wulp 

 from tropical Asia and Australia. Among the palearctic 

 genera it seemingly has no near ally, but the antennae are 

 not very different in structure from those of Chionea Dalm., 

 although the number of their joints is still more reduced 

 in the latter genus. I think there may really be a not very 

 remote relationship between the new genus and Chionea, 

 but the affinities of this latter genus are somewhat obscu- 

 red by certain peculiarities in its organization secondarily 

 caused by its winglessness and particular modus vivendi, 

 which unfortunately is not sufficiently known. l ) Judging 



') Specimens of both sexes of Chionea (apparently araneoides 

 Dalm., though Becker thinks it may be crassipes Boh.) have been 

 found in Belgium in the nests of Vespa at the end of December and 

 have been described as a new genus (Spheconophilus) of an uncertain 

 family. I think that too much importance must not be attached to this 

 exceptional find, as the Chionea presumably had entered the wasp's 

 nests only to take shelter. 



