A relie of the tertiary period in Europe, 
Elephantomyia, a genus of Tipulidae, 
by 
C. R. Osten-Sacken. 
In September 1881 I had the pleasure to examine a number of 
unnamed Tipulidae collected by my friend Mr. A. Hiendlmayr, princi- 
pally in the immediate vieinity of Munich, Bavaria. Among them I 
found a specimen, the sight of which caused me an unexpected de- 
light and exeitement. It was an Zlephantomyia (Section. Limnobina 
anomala), a very singular genus, that I had discovered in North 
America, distinguished by a very long, filiform proboseis, with minute 
palpi, inserted at the extreme end. The only specimen, a female, 
bore a label with a number, and upon referring to his journal, Mr. 
Hiendlmayr told me that it had escaped from a bundle of moss, 
brought home from an excursion near the city. 
The specimen agrees with the description of the North-American 
E. Westwoodi in the Monogr. N. Am. Dipt. IV, p. 109, Tab. I, 
f. 5. The slight discrepancies are easily explained by the state of 
immaturity of the specimen; the brown stripe on the front part of 
the thorax is, for this reason obsolete and the stigma less brownish. 
The ‚more or less brown stripe along the middle of the back“, refers 
undoubtedly to the alimentary canal, much more apparent in living 
than in- dried specimens, and at the time I was in the habit of 
drawing my descriptions from fresh speeimens. The venation is 
exactly the same as the figure (reproduced from a magnified photo- 
graph) represents it. 
