ALEXANDER, CRANE FLIES F.R. S. CHILE & TIERRA D. FUEGO. 3 



Female. — Length, 5,8 mm.; wing, 8,2 mm. 



Rostrum dark brown, slender, nearly as long as the head; 

 palpi dark brown. Antennae dark brown, the f lageilar seg- 

 ments oval. Head dark brown. 



Mesonotum dark brown, the praescutum without stripes. 

 Pleura påle brown, sparsely gray pruinose. Halteres påle 

 brown, the knobs dark brown, the base of the stem duU 

 yellow. Legs with the coxae and trochanters dull yellow; 

 femora påle brown, the tips broadly but indistinctly yellow- 

 ish; tibiae and tarsi dark brown; claws toothed, the largest 

 tooth before midlength. Wings subhyaline, with a few large 

 påle brown clouds, arranged as follows: the first at the ar- 

 culus; the second in cell E before midlength of the cell; the 

 third at the origin of Bs; the fourth at the stigma, conti- 

 niied down onto the end of Bs; cord and outer end of cell 

 1st M2 narrowly and rather indistinctly seamed with påle 

 brown; veins dark brown. Anal angle of the wing rather 

 prominent. Venation in the single remaining wing of the 

 unique type distorted and difficult of exact interpretation; 

 the discernible features are as follows: Sci ending a short 

 distance beyond, Sc2 almost exactly opposite, the origin of 

 Bs\ cell 1st Jf 2 cl osed, rather large, longer than any of the 

 veins issuing from it; basal deflection of Cui a short di- 

 stance before the fork of M. 



Abdomen dark brown, the segments with broad påle 

 caudal margins. Ovipositor with the valves long and acute, 

 the tergal valves especially slender, straight. 



Habitat. — Territory of Magallanes, Chile. 

 Holotype, $, Punta Arenas, Straits of Magellan, No- 

 vember 28, 1895 (Ohlin) Collector's No. 216. 

 Type in the Riksmuseum in Stockholm. 



Tribe Eriopterini. 



Genus Trimicra Osten Säcken. 



Trimicra, sp. 



One female specimen from Punta Arenas, November 27, 

 1895 (Ohlin); Collector's No. 193. The specimen is poorly 



