98 AUSTRALIAN CRANE FLIES. 



Habitat. — North Queensland. 



Holotype, $, Meringa, near Cairns, 191)S (J. F. Illing- 

 worth). 



It is with the greatest pleasure that this interesting 

 little Eriojitera is dedicated to its collector, my friend Dr. 

 James F. Illingworth. 



(ienus GoNOMYiA Meigen. 

 1818, (ionomyia Meigen, Systematische Beschreibung, voK 

 1, p. 146. 



Subgenus Leipokeura Skuse. 



1889 Leiponeura Skuse, Proceedings of the Linnean Society 



of New South Wales, vol. 4 (ser. 2), pp. 795, 796. 



Gonomyia (Leiponeura) cairnensis, sp.n. 

 Antennae dark brovvTi, the scape conspicuously light 

 yellow ; mesonotal prsescutum with three dark brown 

 stripes : pleura yellow, longitudinally striped with dark 

 brown : wings grayish yellow with small brown spots at 

 the tips of Sci and i?2+ 3 • '^'<^i short with Sc2 at its tip ; 

 basal deflection of Ri+ 5 long ; abdominal tergites brown, 

 ringed caudally with yellow. 



Male. — Length, 6.6 mm. ; wing, ri.l mm. 



The following description is made from an alcoholic 

 specimen. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennse with the 

 scape light yellow, the flagellar segments dark brown. 

 Head yellow ; a linear brown mark on the anterior part of 

 the vertex between the eyes. 



Mesonotal prsescutum yellow with three broad dark 

 brown stripes, the long median stripe very indistinctly 

 divided ])y a capillary pale line ; scutal lobes dark brown, 

 the median area pale with a very indistinct brown median 

 dash ; scutellum and postnotum pale, the latter darker 

 behind. Pleura yellow, longitudinally striped with dark 

 brown, the stripe beginning as two narrow brown lines on 

 the propleura, continued caudad, including the extreme 

 base of the fore coxa, passing throiigh the base of the hal- 

 teres and continuing to the abdomen. Mesosternum dark 

 brown, the pale stripe between this mark and the pleural 

 stripe l)road and distinct. Halteres pale. Legs with the 



