NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN CRANE-FLIES.— ALEXANDEB. 61 



with four dark-brown stripes ; scutellum and postnotum obscure yellow ; wings 

 pale brown, the costal margin dark brown; abdomen dark brown, the base and 

 hypopygium yellow. 



Male. — Length, 12-3-13 mm. ; wing, 13-15-5 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head very long and slender, nearly twice the 

 length of the head, brownish black ; palpi dark brown. Antennae short ; scape 

 yellow, flagellum dark brown, the base of the first segment obscure yellow ; first 

 flagellar segment not elongated; last segment shortest. Head dark-coloured, 

 the low but conspicuous vertical tubercle yellow; front obscure yellow. 



Mesonotal pra?scutum greyish brown with four darker brown stripes; 

 scutum brown, the scutal lobes dark brown ; scutellum and postnotum obscure 

 yellow, the latter narrowly darkened posteriorly. Pleura obscure brownish 

 yellow, the mesepisternum and mesosternum marked with darker, Halteres 

 brownish yellow, the knobs darker. Legs with the fore coxas dark brown, the 

 remaining coxa? yellow, dark brown basally ; trochanters yellow ; femora yellow, 

 the apical half passing into brown ; tibite brownish yellow, tarsi brown. Wings 

 pale brown, the costal and subcostal cells dark brown ; stigma pale ; veins brown. 

 Venation: Rs longer than E2-{-3; petiole of ceil 311 shorter than m, sometimes 

 only half its length; nv-cu punetiforni; cell ,2nd A rather narrow. 



Abdomen dark brown, the caudal margins of the segments indistinctly 

 paler; segment 1, the base of segment 2, and the hypopygium conspicuously 

 light yellow. Male hypopygium with the pleurites moderately long and slender, 

 with one complicated pleural appendage, the upper lobe of which is produced into 

 a long, slightly curved beak, the crest with several small blackened spicules; 

 lower lobe pale, flattened, oval, the apex rounded. 



Habitat: Queensland'. 



Holotype, S, Brisbane, May 23, 1916 (H. Hacker). 



Paratopotype, cJ . 



Type in the collection of the Queensland Museum. 



Macromastix flavopygialis may readily be told from all the described 

 Australian species by the very long, slender, dark-coloured frontal prolongation 

 of the head and the conspicuous colouration of the abdomen. 



MACROMASTIX TORTILIS sp n. 



Antennae short; general colouration light yellow, the praiscutal stripes 



slightly more reddish; wings greyish yellow, the costal and subcostal cells rich 



brownish yellow; abdomen yellow, trilineate with broM-n, segments 7 and 8 



chestnut brown ; ninth tergite of the twisted male hypopygium large and tumid. 



3Iale. — Length, about 10-12 mm. ; wing, 12-14-7 mm. 

 Female. — Length, about 10-11 mm.; wing, 11-55-12-5 mm. 



