244 Records OF the S.A. Museum 



LIMNOPHILA CARTERI sp. nov. 



General colouration dark In-own ; lialtci-cs witli tlic knol)s dark brown ; wings 

 faintly yelloAvish, conspicuously spotted ;ind cloiulcd with dark brown; base of 

 cell R unmarked with brown; cell M^ pi-csent. 



9 Length, 9-5 mm. ; wing, 9-5 mm. Fore leg, femur, (i mm. ; til)ia, .l-S mm. 



Generally similar to L. Jan, ditfering as follows: 



Halteres with the knobs dark l)i'OAvn. Legs longer and more slender, less 

 hairy; femora dark brown, the basal cpiarter ol)scure yellow; tibiae and metatarsi 

 yellowish-brown, the tips dark brown ; remainder of the tarsi dark brown. Wings 

 faintly yellowish, cells C and Sc more saturated ; membrane heavily spotted and 

 clouded with brown, arranged as follows: a small spot at al)out one-fhird the 

 length of cell R; a large circular s]iot at the origin of Rs; a broad seam along the 

 cord; conspicuous spots at the end of vein R-, at the outer end of cell first M^, 

 and at the fork of M^+-; conspicuous brown washes occupying most of cell M, 

 except the base and outer <?va\ ; a broad seam along vein M to the cord ; wing-apex 

 in cells R^, R^, R^ and M^ lun-rowly and uiu^-enly darkened; slightly more than 

 the basal half of cell Cu darkened, this colour also including the ends of the anal 

 cells; veins brown. Venation : R-+'^ about (Hjual to the basal deflection of R*+'^ ; 

 cell R2 widely flaring at outer margin ; cell first M- long-hexagonal, the basal 

 deflection of Cu^ before midlength ; cell M^ i^resent, nearly one-half longer than 

 its petiole. Abdomen dark brown, the sternites more reddish. Ovipositor with 

 the valves long and slender, horn-colo\u-ed. 



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

 I. 12157. 



The type is badly discoloured and there is a possibility that the head and 

 thorax are not grey pruinose in fresh specimens, as in L. leni. 



LIMNOPHILA EFFETA sp. nov. 



Size small (wing of 9 under (i mm.) ; general colouration dark; halteres 

 yellow ; legs yellow, the femora with a narrow subterminal brown ring, tips of 

 the tibiae and metatarsi narrowly blackened; wings yellowish-subhyaline, the 

 stigma and anal angle faintly darkened; cell M^ present. 



9 Length, .ir) mm.; wing, 5-8 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennal scape reddish-brown (the flagel- 

 lum broken). Head dark coloured (discoloured). Mesonotum dark coloured 

 (badly greased in the unique type) ; median area of the scutum more reddish. 

 Pleura dark, grey pruinose. Halteres light yellow. Legs with the coxae obscure 

 yellow, the fore coxae infuseated; trochanters obscure yellow; femora brownish- 

 yellow with a narrow subterminal brown ring; tibiae and metatarsi yellow, the 



