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strong macrotrichiae in the ends of cells R^ to M'. Abdomen dark brown, the 

 basal sternites more yellowish. Valves of the ovipositor long, horn-coloured. 

 Hob. Lord Howe Island (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 12155. 



LIMNOPHILA LEAI sp. nov. 



General colour dark, sparsely dusted with grey; halteres yellow; legs short 

 and hairy ; wings yellowish-subhyaline, brighter at the base, variegated with 

 brown ; wing-tip broadly inf uscated ; cell M> lacking. 



? Length, 9-5-10 mm. ; wing, 7 -8-8 -2 mm. Middle leg, femur, 3-6 mm. ; 

 tibia, 3-4 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark bro^vn. Antennae black, with sixteen segments, the 

 basal flagellar segments pyriform, the fourth and fifth very slightly produced on 

 their inner face, but with no indication of a pectination. Head black, sparsely 

 brownish-grey pruinose, especially on the front and anterior ])ortion of the 

 vertex, Pronotum light grey-pruinose. Mesonotal praescutum dark brown, the 

 humeral region more castaneous ; remainder of the mesonotum brighter brown, 

 especially the scutellum. Pleura heavily light grey-pruinose. Halteres yellow. 

 Legs with the coxae light grey-pruinose ; trochanters obscure yellow ; legs short 

 and conspicuously hairy ; femora yellow, the slightly incrassated apical third 

 black; tibiae yellowish-brown, the tips dark brown; tarsi black, the bases of the 

 metatarsi a little brighter ; tarsi a little longer than the tibiae ; tibial spurs long. 

 Wings yellowish-subhyaline, the base brighter ; cells C and Se brownish-yellow ; 

 three incomplete cross-bands and the wing-tip brown; the basal band occupies the 

 bases of cells R and M, connected in cell Qw with the second band, which occupies 

 the level of the origin of Rs, appearing as a large blotch at its origin ; a large 

 area in cells M and Cu and a small blotch near the end of cell first 

 A; the third band occupies the level of the cord, extending from the stigma to 

 the posterior margin, at cell first M^ split to include both ends of the cell ; wing- 

 apex in cells R-, R^, R^, second M- and M^ broadly brown ; veins yellow, brown in 

 the infuscated areas. Venation : Rs angulated at origin, R^+s a little longer than 

 the basal deflection of R*+^; r a little more than its own length from the tip oi- 

 W; r-m shorter than m; cell first M^ small, subhexagonal ; cell M^ lacking; basal 

 deflection of Cu^ beyond midlength of cell first M- ; vein secon(^ A sinuous, the 

 cell broad. 



Hah. Tasmania: Cradle Mountain (H. J. Carter and A. M. Lea). Type, 

 T. 12156. 



L. leal and the following species, L. carteri, bear a striking resemblance to 

 species of Gynoplistia, and yet by the antennal structure mnst be referred to 

 Limnophila. The discoverv of the male sex should be of interest, 



