new or little-known Tipulid^. 550 



Trentepohlia {Trentepohlia) media, sp. n. 



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



Belongs to the group of T. trentepohVice. in most of its 

 characters intermediate between trentepohlm (Wied.) and 

 speiseri (Edw.). 



Mesonotum shiny brownish yellow without distinct darker 

 markings. Wings with the cord distinctly seamed with 

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

 base of ceW Ist Ry 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^, Rr^, and ilfg o^ ^ slightly paler shade 

 of brown, but still plainly infuscated. Petiole of cell R^ 

 indistinctly seamed with brown, dividing the broad yellow 

 anteapical cross-band. Venation : Rs shorter than the 

 deflection of Ri_^.5. 



Hab. North Queensland. 



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

 [A. P. bodd). 



Paratopotype, S ■> January 1921. 



" On foliage in scrub." 



Lechria sublcBvis, Alexander. 



1920. iecA?-/a sMitey«5, Alexander ; Mem. Queensland 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 1921 {A. P. Dodd) ; resting on trunks of 

 Eucalyptus 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 ram. 



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



Genus Limnophila, Macquart. 

 Pakalimnophtla, subgen. nov. 



Antennee with sixteen segments, the basal segments of the 

 flagellura slightly enlarged at apex. Coxse large ; legs and 

 tibial spurs bicolorous. Prosteruum between fore coxse very 



