562 On neio or little-known Tlpulidse. 



Wings with a faint grey tinge, marked with dark brown ; 

 cell Sc brown ; a faint brown cloud in the base of cell R ; 

 a conspicuous quadrate area at the origin of Rs ; a broad 

 band occupying tlie space between the ends of vein Sci and 

 i?i, extending caudad to cell 1st M^; both ends of cell 1st M.2 

 and the basal deflection of Cu^ broadly seamed with brown ; 

 wing-apex broadly but indistinctly darkened, this coloration 

 continued around the. wing-margin into tlie anal cells ; 

 veins dark brown. Venation : Rs strongly angulated at 

 origin, and more than twice its length from tip of i?i ; inner 

 end of cell R^ far proximad of cell R„ ; cell Ist M^ relatively 

 small, roughly quadrate in outline ; basal deflection of Cu^ 

 it near three-fourths the length of cell 1^/ Mj. 



Abdominal tergites black, the extreme base of each 

 segment narrowly^ the apex more broadly, orange-yellow ; 

 segments 6 and 7 entirely black; hypopygium orange; 

 steruites obscure brownish yellow^ the sixth and seventh 

 segments black. 



Hab. North Queensland. 



Hclotype, ^^ Yungaburra, Cairns District, altitude 

 2500 feet, April 1L21 i^A. P. Dodd). 



"On leaf in scrub." 



This very distinct GynopUstia is dedicated to the collector, 

 Mr. Alan P. Dodd, to whom 1 am indebted for many 

 interesting Tipulida3 from North Queensland. 



Ctenacroscelis Jijiensis, sp. n. 



General coloration yellow, heavily marked with brown ; 

 antennal flagellum fulvous ; thoracic pleura variegated with 

 brown ; a pale dorso-pleural stripe continued caudad across 

 the postnotum ; femora with a conspicuous yellow sub- 

 terminal ring, the tips broadly dark brown. 



Female. — Length about 21 mm. ; wing 23 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of head obscure yellow above, the 

 sides darker brown ; palpi dark brown. Antennse short; 

 first scapal segment brown ; second segment light yellow ; 

 flagellum fulvous. Head dark brown, narrowly yellow 

 adjoining the inner margin of the eyes ; vertical tubercle 

 brown, margined with yellow, 



Pronotum dark brown, narrowly yellowish medially. 

 Mesonotal prsescutum obscure yellow, this colour almost 

 entirely hidden by conspicuous brown stripes ; intermediate 

 pair almost confluent ; sublateral stripes elongate but con- 

 siderably constricted on the outer margin opposite the 

 pseudosutural fovese, the anterior ends confluent internally 

 with the intermediate stripes ; lateral margins of pra?scutum 



