ALEJiANDER — Crane Flies 251 



the tarsi largely white; wiiij>-s with a sli'oiig brownish tin^'e; a few macrotrichiao 

 in the cells near the wing-tip; r-ni at the fork of Rs, 11- ' '^ long and sinuous. 



i Wing', 8-2 mm.; antenna, about 10-5 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi brownish-yellow. Male antennae very k)ng; scape obscure 

 yellow; flagellar segments brown, each provided with abundant long erect hairs. 

 Front obscure yelloAv; vertex broad, dark brown. Pronolum light yellow. Meso- 

 notal praescutum reddish-broAvn, impunctale; remainder of the mesonotum 

 reddish-te.staceous. Pleura obscure yellow with a broatl transverse dark brown 

 mark across the mesopleura, extending from the lateral margins of the prae- 

 scutum to the mesosternimi between the fore and middle coxae. Halteres brown 

 (the knobs broken). Legs with the coxae and trochanters obscure yellow; 

 femora brown, the bases paler; tibiae and metatarsi dariv brown; tarsal segments 

 three and four, and the apex of two, Avhite ; last tarsal segment slightly inf uscated. 

 Wings wdth a strong brownish tinge ; no stigma ; veins dark brown ; a few 

 macrotrichiai^ in the apices of cells R^, second M-, and M^. Venation : Sc long, 

 ending about opposite two-fifths the long Rs, Sc- at the tip of Sc^ ; Rs long, the 

 basal third subsinuous; r-m at the end of Rs, R-+^ being very long, gently 

 sinuous; no trace of the tips of veins R^ or R-; r-m long, about one-half as long 

 as cell first M-; basal deflection of Cu^ at midlength of cell first M-. (Abdomen 

 broken.) 



Eab. Tasmania: Hobart (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 12165. 



BRACHYPREMNA Osten Sacken, 1886. 

 BRACHYPREMNA(?) TIGRIVENTRIS sp. nov. 



General colouration dark brown, the mesonotum without distinct markings; 

 head dark brown, narrowly yellowish adjoining the eyes ; wings faintly brownish, 

 stigma dark brown, followed and preceded by a subhyaline area; vein second A 

 running very close to the anal angle of the wing ; abdominal tergites dark brown, 

 the sternites yellowish, the segments margined cauclally with dark brown. 



9 Length, 14-5 mm.; wing, 15 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head reddish-brown; nasus long and slender, 

 black, dusted with grey, tipped with long, black bristles. Antennae brown, 

 apparently only ten-segmented; flagellar segments gradually decreasing in 

 length. Head dark brown, narrowly yellowish adjoining the margin of the eyes. 

 Mesonotal praescutum, scutum and postnotum dark brown, without distinct 

 stripes or markings of any kind (scutellum destroyed in pinning). Pleura light 

 brown, sparsely variegated with darker areas, more conspicuous on the lateral 

 sclerites of the postnotum. Halteres moderately elongated, brown, yellow at the 

 base of the stem, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxae light brownish- 



