new or little-knoion Tipulidpe. 549 



scutellum yellowish apically. Pleura whitish, more plum- 

 beous ou the mesepisternum. Halteres pale, the knobs a 

 little darker. Legs with the coxae and trochanters pale; 

 remainder o£ the legs liglit yellow, only the terminal tarsal 

 segments infuscated. Wings nearly hyaline ; stigma short- 

 oval, pale brown; veins dark brown. Venation : Sc long, 

 Sci ending about opposite two-thirds the length of Rs, Sc^ 

 close to its tip ; Rs straight, slightly bent near the extreme 

 base ; cell \st M2 open by the atrophy of the outer deflec- 

 tion of Ms ; basal deflection of C?<i about one-third its length 

 beyond the fork of M. 



Abdomen light brown ; sternites more yellowish. Ovi- 

 positor with the valves yellowish horn-colour ; bases of the 

 sternal valves conspicuously blackened. 



Hab. North Queensland. 



Holotype, $ , Kuranda, Cairns District, altitude 1100 feet, 

 April 1921 {A. P. Dodd). 



" Ex scrub." 



Dicranomyia opima, sp. n. 



General coloration dark brown ; mesonotal praescutum 

 light clove-brown ; pronotum and a narrow dorsal pleural 

 line yellow; front and anterior part of vertex silvery; wings 

 faintly tinged with brown, heavily spotted with dark brown; 

 Sc very long. 



Male. — Length 4-5 mm. ; wing 4'8-6 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae dark brown 

 throughout ; basal flagellar segments large, nearly globular, 

 the segments gradually passing into oval-cylindrical toward 

 the end of the organ ; verticils long and conspicuous. Head 

 brown ; front and anterior part of vertex conspicuously 

 silvery white. 



Pronotum conspicuous light yellow. Mesonotal prre- 

 scutum clear light clove-brown without markings, the lateral 

 margins narrowly light yellow; remainder of mesonotum 

 dark brown. Pleura dark brown, this including the pro- 

 pleura ; dorsal pleural region narrowly yellow. Halteres 

 dark brown, the base of the stem yellow. Legs Avith the 

 fore coxai brown ; mid-coxse brown, the tips slightly yellow- 

 ish ; posterior coxae yellow ; trochanters yellowish testa- 

 ceous; remainder of the legs brown. Wings with a faint 

 brown tinge, heavily marked with dark brown as follows: a 

 blotch before the pale arcular region ; bases of cells R and 

 M occupied by a large blotch ; large areas at origin of Rs, 

 tip of Ri, and at the ends of the anal veins ; a conspicuous 



