548 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 



Dicranomyia cairnensis, sp. n. 



Mesouotal praescutum obscure yellow, the median area 

 broadly shiny brownish black ; a dorsal brown pleural 

 stripe ; wings tinged with brown ; stigma a little darker 

 brown, small, subcircular; Sc long, cell 1^^ M.2 closed. 



Male. — Length (excluding head) 4 mm. ; wnng 5 ram. 



Head broken in the type. 



Mesonotal prasscutura shiny obscure yellow, the median 

 area broadly shiny brownish black ; remainder of the meso- 

 notum crushed in the type, appearing to be almost uniform 

 brown, the scutellum a little paler. Pleura whitish testa- 

 ceous, the dorsal region infuscated to produce a brown, 

 dorsal, longitudinal stripe. Halteres brown. Legs with 

 the coxse and trochanters pale whitish testaceous ; femora 

 dark brown ; remainder of the legs broken. Wings with a 

 strong brown tinge; stigma small, subcircular, dark brown ; 

 Aeins dark brown. Venation : Sc long, Sci ending about 

 opposite four-fifths the length of the long Rs, Sc^ at its 

 extreme tip ; Rs arcuated at origin ; cell \st M^ relatively 

 small, closed, pentagonal ; basal defleclion of Cui immedi- 

 ately before the foik of M. 



xVbdomen dark brown, the sternites a little paler. Male 

 hypopygium with the pleurites moderately stout, the pleural 

 appendage of each side produced proximad into a long, 

 slender, chitinized arm, the tips decussate across the median 

 line ; penis-guard yellow^ 



Hab. North Queensland. 



Holoiype, (^ , Kuranda, Cairns District, altitude 1100 feet, 

 April 1921 (A. P. Dodd). 



" Ex scrub.^' 



Dicranomyia cairnensis bears a considerable resemblance 

 to D. sedata, Alex. (North Queensland), differing chiefly in 

 the wing-pattern and structure of the hypopygium. 



Dicranomyia amicula, sp. n. 



General coloration pale brownish yellow ; legs light 

 yellow, the terminal tarsal segments darkened ; Avings nearly 

 hyaline, stigma pale brown ; Sc long; cell \st M^ open by 

 the atrophy of the outer deflection of M^. 



Female. — Length 3*6 mm.; wing 4*2 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi light brown. Antennse brown ; 

 flagellar segments oval. Head grey. 



Mesonotum obscure yellow, the median area of the prae- 

 scutum brown ; scutum and postnotum sparsely pruinose ; 



