94 AUSTRALIAN CRANE-FLIES. 



Female. — Length 9-10.4 mm. ; A^ing, 6.6-8.5 mm. 



The following description is made from alcoholic 

 specimens. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae pale yellow, 

 the scape and the terminal flagellar segments more brownish. 

 Head dark. 



Pronotum pale with a broad dark brown median stripe. 

 Mesonotum pale broAvnish yellow, the prsescutum with a 

 dark brown median .stripe that is broadest in front, rapidly 

 narrowed to a point at the suture, in front being confluent 

 with the pronotal stripe ; each scutal lobe with a rectangular 

 longitudinal mark ; scutellum browTi, with an indistinct 

 paler median dividing line ; postnotum wath a distinct 

 brown median stripe. Pleura j'ellow with a small brown 

 spot beneath the wing-root. Halteres pale, the knobs 

 large. Legs with the coxae and trochanters pale yellow ; 

 femora brownish yellow %^dth a narrow dark brown ring 

 immediately before the tips ; tibiae pale brown, the tips 

 indistinctly darkened ; tarsi brown. Wings subhyaline, 

 stigma small, dark brown, rounded and sending a short 

 cloud basad along vein i?^ ; veins dark brown. Venation : 

 Sc very long, Sci ending about opposite r-m, Sco far back 

 from the tip of Sci, nearly opposite the fork of Es ; ?• at 

 the tip of i?i ; Es almost straight, in alignment with the 

 basal deflection of -R4+ 5 which is about one-half its 

 length : cell \st J/o long, closed, the basal deflection of Cui 

 at or beyond the middle of its length. 



Abdominal tergites brownish yellow, segments one to 

 six with a large brown, roughh^ triangular area in the centre 

 of each ; sternites dull yellow. Ovijiositor with the tergal 

 valves very small and slender, the sternal valves much more 

 powerful, compressed, almost straight. 



Habitat. — North Queensland. 



Holotype, ?, Meringa, near Cairns, 1918 (J. F. Illing- 

 worth). 



Paratopotypes, 25 $'s. 



From the fact that the type series consisted onlj' of 

 femdes we may surmise that this material was taken at 

 light. 



