BY CHARLES P. ALEXANDER. 106 



Mesonotum dark brown, the praescutuni without 

 distinct stripes. Pleura dark brown indistinctly varie 

 gated with paler. Halteres dark brown. Legs with the 

 coxse and trochanters yellowish brown ; femora brown» 

 paler basal ly ; remainder of the legs dark brown. Wings 

 brownish gray, the costal and subcostal cells darkei- ; veins 

 dark brown. Venation : JSc rather short, Sci ending a 

 little beyond the fork of Rs, Sc^ a short distance from the 

 tip of Sci and opposite the fork of Rs ; Rs longer than in E. 

 australietisis, being longer than that portion of R^^ - 

 beyond r-m ; cell \st M^ open by the atrophy of in ; cell M^ 

 very small, shorter than its petiole : Cu-i about equal to 

 the basal deflection of Cux. their angle slightly greater than 

 a right angle. 



Abdomen dark brown, the caudal margins of the 

 segments very narrowly and indistinctly yellowish. Ovi- 

 positor with the valves long and slender, dark-colored. 



Habitat. — North Queensland. 



Holotype. §. Gordonvale. Jutir. lObS (,). F. llling- 

 worth). 



The type was collected along a - trc in. 



Eriocera aperta is the first species of the genus known 

 to the writer in which cell 1st uU^ is open. The condition 

 is probably a normal one since both wings of the type are 

 quite the same. 



Subfamily Tipulina*. 



Tril)e Tipulini. 



Genus Phymatopsls Skusr. 



1890, Fhy>natoj)sis Skuse, Proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society of New South ^Vales, vol. 5 (ser. 2), pp. 97. 98. 



Phi/nitilopsis hrevipalpis. sp.n. 



Antenna- very short, 11-segmented, the* distal five 

 segments nearly glol)ular and conspicuously crowded 

 palpi very short, the last segment equal to the third 

 mesonotal prsescutum dull yellow with indistinct stripes 

 wings gray, the subcostal cell darker : abdomen yelloAv, the 

 segments narrowly ringed caudally with ])rown. 



