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lung terminal segment whitish. Antennae of the male moderate in length, light 

 brown. Head brownish grey, especially on the vertex and occiput ; front and 

 genie more yellowish. 



Mesonotal praescutum reddish brown, with three darker brown stripes ; 

 scutal lobes marked with this same colour ; remainder of the mesonotum yellow. 

 Pleura yellowish. Halteres pale brownish yellow, the base of the knob darker. 

 Legs Avith the coxas and trochanters yellow; remainder of the legs light brown. 

 Wings with a faint brownish tinge ; cell Sc pale brown except at the distal end ; 

 an obliterative area before and beyond the stigma and another across the 

 proximal end of cell 1st M2 ; stigma large, subreetangular, brown ; an indistinct 

 brown cloud at the basal deflection of Cul ; veins pale brown, the tip of Sc and 

 E below it yellowish. Venation: Rs transverse, about equal to r-m; cell Ml 

 rather short; vein Ml about equal to 311 -{-2; petiole of cell M2 from one-half 

 to two-thirds of Ml -{-2; basal deflection of Cul about its own length before 

 the fork of ill. 



Abdomen yellowish, ringed with dark brown ; on the second segment at 

 about midlength, on the other segments appearing as a basal ring and a narrow 

 ring on the posterior margin of the preceding tergite. Male hypopygium with 

 the ninth tergite bidentate as in the Australian species of the genus; outer 

 pleural appendages relatively short, about twice the length of the small, flattened, 

 more complicated inner appendage ; the proximal face of the outer appendage 

 is indistinctly bidentate. Female ovipositor with the valves acicular. 



Habitat: Queensland. 



Holotype, (J , Oxley, near Brisbane, September 4, 1914 (H. Hacker), 



Allotopotype, 9 . 



Paratopotype, c? ; paratypes, 5 9 's, Brisbane, May 23, 1916 (H. Hacker) ; 

 a few dry fragments, Brisbane, September 18, 1914 (H. Hacker). 



Type in the collection of the Queensland Museum. 



The present form would seem to be a variety of DoUchopeza hrevifurca 

 Skuse, although the pleural appendages of the male hypopygium are very much 

 smaller than in any other member of the subgenus Apeilesis that I have seen, 

 agreeing more nearly with the normal type of the genus. The variety may be 

 told from the typical form by the darker wings and the structure of the 



Tribe TIPULINI. 

 Genus PTILOGYNA Westwood. 



1835. Zoolog. Journ., vol. 5, pp. 448, 449. 



PUlogyna ramicornis (Walker). 

 ]835. Tipula ramicornis Walker; Ent. Mag., vol. 2, p. 469. 



A few specimens of this beautiful crane-fly, from the following station : — 

 Caloundra, September 28— October 28, 1913 (H. Hacker). 



