S92 ME. F. W. EDAVAEDS ON DIPTEEA 



Walker's type, a female from North Ceram. It is a large and well-marked species 

 \vitli dull thorax, reddish humeri, and an entirely reddish abdomen, points which were 

 not mentioned by Walker in his useless description. It belongs to Winnertz's 

 group 1. A.l.B.a. The media and cubitus are quite bare. 



Family Bibionid^. 

 Genus Plecia. 

 Plecia Wiedemann, Aiissereurop. zweifl. lus. i. p. 72 (1828). 



2. Plecia pulvicollis. 



Hirtea fulvicollis Fabricius, Syst. Autl. p. 53 (1805). 



Plecia fulvicolUs de Meijere, Nova Guinea, Zool. v. i. p. 68 (1906), and ix. iii. p. 306 (1913). 

 1 $ . Utakwa River, 3000 ft., Jan. 1913. 



This species, which is common and widely distributed in the Oriental and Aus- 

 tralasian regions, has already been recorded from several localities in New Guinea. 

 The British Museum possesses specimens from Sarawak, Borneo, and the Aru 

 Islands {A. R. Wallace), also from Sumatra [A. U. Everett) and India. 



Pamily C H i k o N o M i d J5. 

 Genus Chikonomus. 

 C/iirowoTOWs Meigen, Illiger's Mag. ii. p. 260 (1803). 



3. Chikonomus sp. 



Cf. Chironomus nov<pguineensis de Meijere, Nova Guinea, v. i. p. 69 (1906). 



1 6 . Mimika River, July 1910. 



Differs from de Meijere's species in the absence of the blackish marks on the 

 abdomen, but it does not seem advisable to describe it as a new species on the basis 

 of a single specimen. 



Family T I p u L I D ^. 

 Subfamily LimnobiinsB. 

 Genus Dapanoptera. 

 Bapanoptera Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 365 (1881). 



4. Dapanoptera pallida. 



Dapanoptera pallida de Meijere, Nova Guinea, ix. iii. p. 307 (1913). 

 1 $ . Utakwa River, 4000-6000 ft., Jan.-Feb. 1913. 



