96 AUSTRALIAN CRANE-FLIES. 



Habitat. — North Queensland. 



Holotype, ^, Gordonvale, February, 1918 (J F. 

 Illingworth) . 



Paratopotvpe, ^. 



The types were from grass. 



The reference of this curious fly to Libnotes is somewhat 



provisional but tbe only other course would be the erection 



of a new genus. The almost simple claws, the open cell 



1st M-i and the cuneiform wings are aberrant characters 



in the genus Libnotes. 



Tribe Antochini. 



Genus Styringomyia Loew. 



1845, Styringomyia Loew, Dipterologische Beitrage, vol. 1, 



p. 6. 



Styringomyia bancrofti Edwards. 



1914, Styringomyia bancrofti Edwards, Transactions of the 

 Entomological Society of London, 1914, pt. 1. p. 222, 

 pi. 23, figs. 44, 45 ; pi 25, figs. 80, 81. 



Two fema,'os from Meringa, near Cairns, 1918 (J. F. 



Illingworth). 



Tribe Eriopterini. 



Genus Erioptera Meigen. 

 1803, Erioptera Meigen, Illiger's Magazin, vol. 2, p. 262. 

 Erioptera [Erioptera) angustifascia, sp.n. 

 Antennae pale brown ; head dark bro^^-n, paler along 

 the inner margin of the eyes ; femora with a broad brownish 

 ring before the tips ; wings grayish subhyaline with a 

 narrow brown seam along the cord ; i?2+ 3 short, at a 

 marked angle with the end of the sector, r at the fork of 



It.,+ 3. 



Female. — Length 4.8 mm. ; wing, 3.5 mm. 



The following description is made from an alcoholic 

 specimen. 



Rostrum pale brown ; palpi dark brown. Antennse 

 pale brown, the segments beyond the sixth broken ; flagellar 

 segments oval. Head dark brown, broadly yellowish 

 adjoining the inner margin of the eyes. 



Mesonotum brownish yellow without distinct stripes. 

 Pleura brownish yellow. Halteres pale. Legs with the 



