562 On new or Vittle-'knoion Tipulidse. 



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 oi Rs ', a broad 

 band occupying the space between the ends of vein Sc^ and 

 i?i, extending caudad to cell 1*^ M2; both ends of cell \st M^ 

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

 wing-apex broadly but indistinctly darkened, this coloration 

 continued around the wing-margin into the anal cells ; 

 veins dark brown. Venation : Rs strongly angulated at 

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

 end of cell R^, far proximad of cell Rr^ ; cell \st M^ relatively 

 small, roughly quadrate in outline ; basal deflection of Cui 

 at near three-fourths the length of cell \st M^. 



Abdominal tergites black, the extreme base of each 

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

 segments 6 and 7 entirely black; hypopygium orange; 

 sternites obscure brownish yellow^ the sixth and seventh 

 segments black. 



Hab. North Queensland. 



Hclotyjie, ^ , Yungaburra, Cairns District, altitude 

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



" On leaf in scrub." 



This very distinct Gynojjlistia is dedicated to the collector, 

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

 interesting Tipulidge from North Queensland. 



Ctenacroscelis fijiensis, sp. n. 



General coloration yellow, heavily marked with brown ; 

 antennal fiagellum 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 ; 

 fiagellum 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 prpescutum 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 fovcse, the anterior ends confluent internally 

 with the intermediate stripes ; lateral margins of praiscutum 



