100 AUSTRALIAN (IRANE-FLIBS. 



Pronotum pale. Mesonotal prsescutum dark brown, 

 the lateral margins and humeral angles paler. Pleura 

 brownish yellow, indistinctly marked with brown. Hal- 

 teres pale, the knobs a trifle darker. Legs with the 

 coxae brownish on their outer faces : trochanters pale brown ; 

 remainder of the legs pale brown. Wings with a strong 

 grayish brown suffusion : stigma indistinctly darker ; veins 

 brown. Venation : Sc short, Sci ending far before the 

 origin of Rs, this distance nearly equal to the length of Rs 

 alone ; Sco far removed from the tip of Sci, Sc^ alone being 

 longer than Bs : Rs short, strongly arcuated at its origin ; 

 basal deflection of Ri+ ' very short, subpunctiform ; veins 

 ^2+ a and Ri-\ 5 strongly divergent ; basal deflection of 

 Cwi a short distance before the fork of M. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown ; sternites yellow. 

 Ovipositor with the tergal valves slender, acute, slightly 

 upcurved. 



Habitat. — North Queensland, 



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

 worth). 



Gonomyia queenslandica is closest to G. brevivena 

 (Skuse) but Sco is not at the tip of Sc-^ and cell 1st M^. is 

 scarcely one-half the length of cell 2ndM2 (second posterior). 



Genus Conosia rmn der Wulp. 

 1880, Conusia van der Wulp, Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 

 vol. 23, p. 159, pi. 10, figs. 5-7. 



Conosia irrorata (Wiedemann). 

 1828, Limnobia irrorata Wiedemann, Aussereuropaische 

 zweifl. Insekten, vol. 1, p. 574. 



A female specimen, taken at Meringa, near Cairns, 

 1918 (J. F. lUingworth). 



♦ Tribe Limnophilini. 



Genus Lechria Skuse. 

 1889, Lechria JSkuse, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of 

 New South Wales, vol. 4 (ser. 2), pp. 830, 831. 



The genus Lechria is a very isolated group that has been 

 referred almost without question to the tribe Eriopterini 

 although the fact that the insects possessed tibial spurs 



