258 Records ok the S.A. Museum 



heavily lig-ht grey-pruiiiost'. Ijateral sclerites of the poslnotiim immediately 

 before the root of the lialteres prodiieed laterad into eonspicuous tubercles. 

 Pleura light grey-pruinose ; a reddish triangle ou the mesepisternum ; meso- 

 sternum reddish. Halteres brown, Ihe knobs light yellow. Legs with the coxae 

 light grey ; trochanters reddish-brown ; femora reddish-brown, the tips narrowly 

 blackish (remainder of the legs broken). Wings greyish-snbhyaline; cell C more 

 yellowish; cell Sc narrow, fulvous; stigma ])ale yellowish-brown; cord seamed 

 with brown; lo]igitudinal veins very narrowly seamed with brown, broader on M. 

 Venation : As in P. pandoxa; vein H'^ longer than Ks; K^ ' "' strongly sinuated at 

 midlength; petiole of cell M^ about equal to r-ni; cell first M^' shorter, the basal 

 deflections of M^"^- and M'^+'' subequal. Abdominal tergites reddish-brown with 

 the lateral margins conspicuously silvery -grey ; median line duller grey ; tergite 

 one entirely dull grey ; the lateral triangles are most distinct on segments two to 

 seven; the dorso-median grey line is narrowly interrupted at the posterior 

 margins of the segments; sternites reddish, sparsely grey pruinose. 



Hah. Tasmania (xV. Simson, No. 3262). Type, I. 12172. 



The reference of this crane-fly to Flusionnjia is rendered somewhat doubtful 

 by the loss of the antennae. However, the other details of structure agree, and 

 it is highly probable that the above reference is correct. 



PLUSIOMYIA MINOR sp. nov. 



Size small (wing of female under 13 nun.) ; general colouration dark brown, 

 the thorax without distinct stripes; first scapal segment very long and slender; 

 flagellar segments two to seven with a pair of basal branches and a smaller blunt 

 subterminal branch ; wings greyish-sub hyaline, unmarked ; abdomen broAvnish- 

 black. 



$ Length, about 12 mm.; wing, 12- G mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head slender, only a tritie longer than the 

 i-emainder of the head, reddish-brown, passing into dark brown at the tip ; palpi 

 dark brown. Antennae Avith the first scapal segment long and slender as in 

 P. inornata, about as long as the frontal prolongation of the head or nearly 

 one-third of the entire antennal length ; first flagellar segment with an apical 

 triangular tooth; flagellar segments dark Ijrown; segments two to seven branched, 

 the longest branch scarcely a third longer than the segment that bears it; the 

 minute third branch of eacii of these six flagellar segments is situated just before 

 the tip of each segment; terminal six segments of the flagellum simple. Head 

 dusky grey ; vertex between the eyes narrow. Mesonotum rather dark brown 

 without distinct stripes. Pleura dark brownish-testaceous without markings. 

 Halteres brown, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxae and trochanters 



