Alexander — Crane Flies 261 



PHYMATOPSIS Skuse, 1890. 

 PHYMATOPSIS BREVIROSTRATA sp. nov. 



Antennae with twelve segments in the male; flagellnm brown; mesonotum 

 n])senre yellow, the praeseutum with three broad blackish stripes that are cou- 

 tliient, or nearly so; wings whitish-subhyaline with eonspicnous brown cross- 

 bands; Rs short; abdomen l)la('k, the tergites Avith yellowish bases in the male, 

 more greyish in the female. 



6 Length, T-.VS mm.; wing, 9-10-8 mm. 9 Length, 10 mm.; wing, 

 9 nnn. 



Frontal prolongation of the head short and stont, strongly arched at about 

 midlength; no distinct nasus, but a tuft of four or five bristles at this point; 

 palpi dark brown. Antennae rather short, twelve-segmented in the male; first 

 fiagellar segment pyriform; remaining segments gradually decreasing in size, but 

 increasing in length to the terminal one; scape obscure yellow, flagellum brown. 

 Head yellowish-grey, the vertex with a large triangular brown blotch. Mesonotal 

 praeseutum obscure yellow Avith three broad blackish stripes that are confluent 

 or nearly so, the median stripe very narrowly split by a capillary pale line; 

 scutal lobes black; seutellum yellowish-testaceous; postnotum dark brown, blackish 

 posteriorly, this colour continued laterad on to the lateral sclerites of the post- 

 notum and appearing as a large blotch before the root of the halter. Pleura pale 

 brownish-yellow, sparsely pruinose. Halteres dark brown, the basal half of the 

 stem light yellow. Legs with the coxae and trochanters light yellow; femora 

 yellowish-brown, the tips narrowly blackened; tibiae dark brown, the tips 

 l)lackeiu^d ; tarsi black. Wings whitish-subhyaline with cross-bands of brownish ; 

 cells C and Sc more yellowish ; stigma dark broA\ai, sutf using all of cell Sc^ and 

 the outer half of first IV, continued caudad as a broad seam along the cord to the 

 fork of M; broad brown cross-bands in thj basal cells, one at the arculus; the 

 second near midlength of the basal cells; wing-apex and the posterior and anal 

 cells greyish-brown ; the conspicuous whitish bands left are before and beyond the 

 cord and near the wing-base. Venation: Rs short, arcuated at origin, shorter 

 than R-+^; petiole of cell M^ shorter than r-m; cell second A very narrow; Cu^ 

 about twice the deflection of Cu^ Abdominal tergites two to six obscure yellow, 

 the caudal margins broadly black, the remaining tergites black; lateral margins 

 broadly greyish-yellow; sternites brownish-yellow. 



The female referred to this species is much darker in colour, the black 

 including the entire thorax ; the wing is more uniformly darkened, the band at 

 the cord ])eing very broad, restricting the white markings before and beyond the 

 cord to small oval areas; cell second A broader; bases of abdominal tergites more 

 greyish than yellow. 



