Alexandeu — Crane Flies 241 



EPIPHRAGMA TERRAE-REGINAE sp. nov. 



Antennae dark brown, the first flagellar segment orange; inesonotal prae- 

 scutum with the anterior half dark brown, the posterior half abruptly light 

 yellow; legs yellow, the femora with two broAvn rings; tibiae with a narrow brown 

 ring beyond the base ; wings brown, the margin with darker brown areas that are 

 narrowly bordered with light yellow. 



9 Length, 10 mm.; wing, 10-5 mm. 



liostrnm brown, dusted with golden pollen ; palpi dark brown. Antennae 

 dark broAvn, the first flagellar segment orange ; second flagellar segment pale 

 brown ; remainder of the flagellum dark brown. Head dark, dusted with brown. 

 Pronotum extensive, fulvous brown. Mesonotal praescutum with the anterior 

 half dark brown, beyond midlength conspicuously and abruptly covered with a 

 light yellow pollen (scutum injured in pinning) ; scutellum brown, paler 

 caudally; postnotum brown, the posterior third yellowish with a capillary dark 

 brown median line. Pleura brow'n with a slightl}^ darker ventral stripe. Halteres 

 yellowish-brown, the knobs darker. Legs with the posterior and middle coxae 

 conspicuously light yellow, the extreme bases dark brown; anterior coxae dark 

 brown except at the apex ; trochanters light yellow ; femora yellow, before the 

 tips with a broad (1-4 mm.) dark brown ring; a narrower post-medial brown 

 annulus; tibiae yellow with a narrow brown ring shortly beyond the base, tips 

 narrowly darkened; tarsi brownish -yellow, the tips darkened. Wings brown; 

 quadrate to subcircular darker brown areas, arranged as follows : at h ; bases of 

 cells II and M ; at origin of Rs ; at the supernumerary cross-vein in cell C ; an 

 area at the end of Sc, continued caudad along the cord; tip of R^ and r; tips of 

 R- and R^; these markings are conspicuously margined Avith yellow; slightly 

 paler brown markings at the ends of the longitudinal veins; outer end of cell 

 first M- and the fork of M^^"- clouded; veins dark brown. Venation: R-+^ about 

 equal to the basal deflection of Cu^ ; r about its own length from the tip of 

 R^ ; petiole of cell M^ about equal to the basal deflection of Cu^ ; basal deflection 

 of Cu^ near two-fifths the length of cell first M-. Abdominal tergites brown, still 

 darker brown laterally ; sternites yellowish-brown, the basal sternites brighter 

 apicall}'. 



Hah. Queensland: Cairns district (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 12153. 



EPIPHRAGMA HOWENSIS sp. nov. 



i Length, about 11 -5 mm.; wing, 12 mm.; antenna, about 4-5 mm. 



Generally similar to E. terrae-reginae, differing as follows : Antennae of 

 the male elongate, if bent backward extending to considerably beyond the base of 

 the abdomen; flagellar segments one to three orange-yellow; segments four to 



