new or little-hioion Tipulidae. 559 



Trent epohlia {Trentepoklia) media, sp. n, 



Male. — Length about 6 mm. ; wing 5*3 mm. 



Belongs to the group of T. trentepohHw, in most of its 

 characters intermediate between trentepohUce (Wied.) and 

 speiseri (Edw.). 



Mesonotum shiny brownish yellow without distinct darker 

 markings. Wings with the cord distinctly seamed with 

 brown, this not incluiling the extreme base of Rs or the 

 base of cell \st Ri as in speiseri ; cells C and Sc, together 

 with their veins, yellow. Wing-apex darkened, this in- 

 cluding the entire cell R^ as in speiseri and the distal part 

 of cell 2nd R^ ; cells R^, R^, and M^ of a slightly paler shade 

 of brown, but still plainly infuscated. Petiole of cell Rr, 

 indistinctly seamed with brown, dividing the broad yellow 

 anteapical cross-band. Venation : Rs shorter than the 

 deflection of R^^s. 



Hab. North Queensland. 



Holotype, c?, Gordonvale, Cairns District, February 1921 

 {A. F. Dodd). 



Paratopotype, S -, January 1921. 



" On foliage in scrub." 



Lechria sublcevis, Alexander. 



1920. Lechria sublcevis, Alexander ; Mem. QueenslaDcl Mus. vol. vii. 

 pt. 1, pp. 54, 55. 



This interesting species was based on alcoholic material. 

 The following details of coloration may be added from a 

 series of five dried specimens [Gordonvale, North Queens- 

 land, January 1931 {A. P. Dodd) ; resting on trunks of 

 EucalypAus in forest]. Head and thorax with a clear blue- 

 grey pruinosity, more brownish on the mesonotal praescutum. 

 Femora yellow, the tips conspicuously and abruptly dark 

 brown. Abdomen bicolorous, the segments dark brown 

 basally, yellowish ochreous apically. This small series 

 shows the following considerable range in size : — 



Male. — Length 5*2-5-5 mm.; wing 6-5 mm. 



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



Genus Limnophila, Macquart. 



Pabalimnophila, subgen. nov. 



Antennae with sixteen segments, the basal segments of the 



flagellum slightly enlarged at apex. Coxae large ; legs and 



tibial spurs bicolorous. Prosternum between fore coxae very 



