new or litlle-known Tipulidoe. 557 



Rostrum and palpi dark brownish black. Autennce dark 

 brown, first scapal segment pruinescent above; second 

 scapal segment elongatc-pyriform, pale basally. Head with 

 a clear blue-grey pruinosity. 



Mesonotum black witli brilliant steel-blue reflexions. 

 Pleura with a shimmering blue-grey pruinosity. Haltei'es 

 dark brown. Legs with the cox£e black, sparsely pruinose ; 

 trochanters obscure yellow ; femora and tibise dark brown, 

 the former pale basally ; first and second segments of the 

 tarsi obscure yellow, narrowly tipped with dark brown ; 

 I'emainder of the tarsi dark brown. Wings dark brown, 

 conspicuously cross-banded with whitish hyaline, these pale 

 areas arranged as follows : Wing-base to the level of the 

 arculus ; a large quadrate area iu cells R and M before the 

 origin of Rs, together with a similar but smaller isolated 

 area near the outer end of cell 2iid A ; a conspicuous band 

 immediately before the cord, this extending entirely across 

 the wing, although more yellowish in cell Sc-^^ of nearly 

 equal width throughout ; the terminal band is lunate with 

 the convexity lying distad, this band being close to the 

 wing-apex, extending from cell i?2 through cell M^, ; wing- 

 tip iu cells Rci, Rz, R^,, and 'Znd M^ narrowly darkened ; veins 

 dark, paler in the white areas. Venation : Bc^ ending about 

 opposite mid-length of Rs^ Sc2 some distance from the tip of 

 SCi ; Rs long, almost straight ; Ro+s about twice r-m ; c ell 

 1st M2 closed, comparatively small, rectangular ; m very 

 short to lacking, so cell 2nd A^ is narrowly sessile to short- 

 petiolate ; basal deflection of Cui at near two-fifths the 

 length of cell 1st M^. 



Abdomen black with conspicuous blue and purple re- 

 flexions. Valves of the rather elongate ovipositor reddish 

 horn-colour. 



Hub. North Queensland. 



Holotype, ^ , Gordonvale, Cairns District, February 1921 

 (A. P. bodd). 



Allotopotype, ? . 



Paratopoti/pes,6 ($ ? January 1921,4 c? ? February 1921. 



" On foliage along edge of stream." 



Gonomyia {Leiponeura) terra-regina, sp. u. 



General coloration dark brown, variegated with yellow ; 

 thoracic pleura striped brown and white; legs brown; wings 

 rather broad, strongly tinged with greyish; Sc long, Sc^ 

 near tip of Sci; cell 1^^ M2 closed ; male hypopygium with 



