104 AUSTKALIA.N CRANE-FLIES. 



xMesonotal prsescutuni brownish yellow with four dark 

 brown stripes, the median pair separated by a much narrower 

 pale line, broadest in front, narrowed behind and not 

 attaining the sutm-e : scutal lobes conspicuously dark brown ; 

 scutellum and postnotum pale brown. Pleura pale brown, 

 marked with darker blotches. Halteres pale, the knobs 

 dark })row n. Legs with the coxte and trochanters yellowish 

 brown ; femora brownish yellow, the tips but faintly dark- 

 ened : tibife and tarsi brown. Wings with a pale brown 

 suffusion, the costal and su1)costal cells somewhat darker ; 

 stigma lacking : veins l^rown. Venation : Sc. long, ending 

 beyond the fork of Bs, Sc^ not far removed from the tip of 

 SC] : Rs. shorter than -^3 alone : ^2— a about equal to or 

 a little shorter than j^o alone : r on T?^ about its own length 

 beyond the fork of R.^^ 3 : cells R and 1st J/ 2 in alignment, 

 much shorter than cell i?3 : cell 1st M .^ closed, elongate, 

 subrectangular. about as long as veinJfi+.j beyond it; 

 the basal deflection of Cu^ at about one-third the length of 

 cell Is/ J/v; : cell J/, lacking ; Cu.^ and the basal deflection 

 of 6'w, sube(iual. 



Abdominal tergites dull yellow, the posterior margins 

 of the segmeiits narrowly ringed with dark brown to produce 

 a distinctly amiulated appearance : sternites similar but 

 the pattern even better defined. 0\'ipositor with the 

 valves long and powerful, the tergal \ alves much exceeding 

 the sternal valves. 



Habitat. — North Queensland. 



Holotype, $, Meringa. near Cairns. 19 IS (J. F. 

 illingworth). 



Paratopotypes, 25 $"s. 



Eriocera aperta, sp.n. 



Antennal flagellum dark brown : mesonotum dark 

 brown ; femora brown, paler ])asally ; wings brownish gray ; 

 cell \st M , o])en by the atrophy of )n ; abdomen dark brown. 



Female. — Length 10.8 mm. : wing, 9 mm. 



Rostrum and jialpi brown. Antenna' with the scapal 

 segments light br-ow^n, the flagellar segments dark brown ; 

 only four flagellar segments are evident in the type, these 

 gradually decreasing in length from the l*asal to the terminal. 

 Head brown, gi'ayish pruinose. 



