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Genus LEPTOTARSUS Guerin. 



1838. Voyage de la Coquille, Dipt., p. 286. 



Leptotarsus (Leptotarsus) macquarti Guerin. 

 1838. Leptotarsus macquarti Guerin; Voyage de la Coquille, Dipt., p. 286, pi. 20, fig. 1. 

 1848. Tipula tricincta Walker; List Diptera Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 73. 



One female, Brisbane, February 12, 1914 (H. Hacker). 



Subgenus PSEUDOLEPTOTARSUS subgen. n. 

 Antenna with nine segments. Terminal segment of the palpus short. 

 Wings with cell Ml lacking, there being but two branches of media attaining the 

 wing-margin. 



Type of the subgenus: Leptotarsus {Pseudoleptotarsus) liponeura sp. n. 

 (Australia). 



The presence of but two branches of media is almost unique in the subfamily 

 Tipulinai, the only other case known to the writer being the genus Idiotipula 

 Alexander (Natal). 



LEPTOTARSUS (PSEUDOLEPTOTARSUS) LIPONEURA sp. n. 



Antennas 9-segmented ; last segment of the palpus short ; general coloura- 

 tion yellow, the mesonotal pra^scutum with four brown stripes; mesepisternum 

 and mesosternum plumbeous brown ; wings pale brown, sparsely variegated with 

 yellow; cell Ml lacking; abdominal tergites yellow, the basal four segments 

 ringed eaudally with black. 



Female. — Length, about 13-13-5 mm. ; wing, 13-5-14:-6 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head yellow ; nasus broad ; palpi brown, the 

 terminal segment darker, shorter than the second and third taken together. 

 Antennae with but nine apparent segments, the first segment yellow, the remainder 

 of the organ brown ; first scapal segment long and slender ; second segment sub- 

 globular ; first flagellar segrnent oval, the second to fourth produced into a basal 

 pedicel, the terminal three segments nearly cylindrical ; the last segment is longer 

 than the penultimate and may be formed by the union of two small segments. 

 Head obscure yellow, very broad behind the eyes. 



Pronotum brown. Mesonotal priescutum obscure yellow with four brown 

 stripes, the intermediate pair separated only by a capillary line of the ground- 

 colour, entirely confluent behind ; a subtriangular dark-brown area at the humeral 

 angle ; remainder of the mesonotum light yellow, each scutal lobe with a 

 conspicuous dark-brown spot at the cephalic lateral angle. Pleura obscure 

 yellow, the mesepisternum and mesosternum plumbeous brown, the latter with 

 a yellow spot immediately cephalo-dorsad of the mesocoxa. Halteres pale, the 

 knobs brown. Legs with the cox« obscure yellow, the anterior coxsb more 

 infuscated ; trochanters dull yellow ; femora light brown, gradually darkening 

 to the tips; remainder of the legs dark brown. "Wings pale brown, sparsely 

 variegated with yellowish; cells C and 8c brown; conspicuous brown seams 



