Alexander— Crane Flies ^45 



tips luirrowly hut conspicuoiisly l)lat*kened ; remaindoi- of the tarsi browiiish-black. 

 Wings yell()^vish-subllyalill(', ceils C and Se sliylitly more yellowish; stigma 

 slightly darker brown, ill-defined; anal angle of the wing infuscated; veins dark 

 brown. Venation: Se ending about opposite the fork of Rs, !Sc- a slight distance 

 from the tip of ISc\ Sc^ alone being a little longer than the basal deflection of 

 Cu^ ; Rs long, subangulated at origin, in alignment with R-+'-^; K-+'^ a little more 

 than one-half R- ; r rather faint, at or immediately beyond, the fork of R-+"^ and 

 on R^ nearly twice its own length from the tip; inner ends of cells R-^, R' and 

 first M- in oblique alignment, but R'^ shorter than R'^ ; cell first M- long and 

 narrow, widened distally ; petiole of cell M^ long, about twice the cell and 

 approximately as long as cell first M^ ; basal deflection of Cu^ at or just beyond 

 midlength of the latter. Abdomen dark brown. Ovipositor with the valves 

 elongate, slender, strongly upcurved, reddish-horn-coloured. 



Hub. Tasmania: Wilmot (H. J. Carter and A. M. Lea). Type, I. 12158. 



L. cffeta is apparently closely related to L. disposita Skuse (New South 

 Wales), differing in the smaller size and in the venational details, as the length 

 of Rs and the position of the radial cross-vein. 



LIMNOPHILA PANTHERINA sp. nov. 



Antennae of the male elongate ; general colouration light brown, the thoracic 

 pleura grey-pruinose ; legs yellow ; Avings subhyaline, the costal margin yellowish, 

 the cells spotted and dotted with brown ; R-+3 short, r far from the tip of R^. 



S Length, 10-5 mm.; w'ing, 10-8 mm.; antenna, about 4 mm. 



Rostrum brownish-yellow ; palpi brown. Antennae of the male elongate, if 

 bent baclvAvard extending to opposite midlength of the second abdominal segment ; 

 antennae brownish-yellow. Head brown. Mesonotum l)rown, grey-pruinose 

 (discoloured in the type), the postnotum more testaceous. Pleura light grey- 

 pruinose, darker on the lateral sclerites of the postnotum and on the sternum. 

 Halteres long and slender, light brown. Legs with the coxae yellowish-testaceous ; 

 trochanters yellow; femora and tibiae obscure yellow (tarsi broken). Wings 

 subhyaline, the costal margin light yellow, this colour extending to the wing-apex ; 

 stigmal spot small, dark brown ; dark brown spots arranged as follows : at arculus ; 

 origin and fork of Rs ; tip of Sc ; at r ; tip of R^ ; R- ; a smaller spot at R^ ; an 

 interrupted seam along the cord ; sparse small brown dots in all the cells of the 

 Avings excepting Sc, there being about twenty-five in cell C ; veins dark broAvn, C, 

 Sc, and R yellowish-broAvn. Venation : Sc long, extending beyond the fork of 

 R-+3, Sc- longer than Sc^ and near its extreme tip; Rs long, almost straight ; 

 R2+^ short, about two-thirds the basal deflection of Cu^ ; r very far before the tip 

 of R^, the ultimate section of R^ being longer than the penultimate ; r near one- 



