584 NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN TIPULIDAE, i., 



mesepimeron sparsely pruinose. Halteres brown, tlie base of tlie stems and the 

 knobs blackish. Legs .with the coxae and trochanters yellow, the posterior and 

 middle coxae sparsely pruinose ; legs black with about the basal third of the femora 

 obscurely paler. Wings greyish, subhyaline, the base and costal region yellow- 

 ish; disc almost covered by dusky bands, leaving narrow areas of the ground- 

 colour before the cord, before the origin of Rs and in the bases of the anal 

 cells. Venation: As in P. fascipennis (Thoms.) ; cell 1st M2 tending to be open 

 by the atrophy of the outer deflection of IMs. 



Abdominal tergites obscure orange-yellow, the caudal half of each segment 

 black, the basal half less distinctly darkened medially; sternites obscure yellow; 

 hypopygium orange-yellow. 



Female. Like the male, differing as follows: The praescutal stripes repre- 

 sented only by a vague darkening before the suture. Femora with a conspicuous 

 orange ring before the tip, more clearly defined on the fore legs; metatarsi with 

 the basal half fulvous. Wings dark brown with three white cross-bands, the 

 second complete, immediately before the cord, the last narrow, straight, extending 

 from cell K2 through Ms ; cell 1st M2 closed. Abdomen blue-black, the hypopy- 

 gium and genital segment rich orange-fulvous. 



Hab.— New South Wales. 



Bolotype, <S, Dorrigo, altitude 2,000 feet, January, 1922 (TF. Keron) ; Allo- 

 topotype, 2. 



Trentepohlia (Mongoma) australasiae Skuse. 



1889. Trentepohlia australasiae, Skuse. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., (2), iv., 

 834-835. 



Queensland: Kuranda (F. P. Dodd), Coll. South Australian Museum; Gor- 

 don vale (J. F. IllingTvorth ) , bred from cage containing cane plants, Alexander 

 CoU. 



Conosia irrorata (Wiedemann). 



1828. Limnobia irrorata, Wiedemann, Aussereur. Zweifl. Ins., i., 574. 



Queensland: Meringa, November 14, 1920 (J. F. Illingworth), Darwin (G. 

 F. Hill), Townsville (G. F. Hill), Alexander Coll.; South Australia: Adelaide 

 (Baxringer), Coll. South Australian Museum. 



•Epiphragma hardyi, n.sp. 



General colouration brownish-yellow, the mesonotum marked with dark 

 brown; pleura largely dark brown; femora dark brown with a postmedial yellow 

 ring; tibiae yellow with three black rings; wings light yellow, the ground-colour 

 almost concealed by a heavy pattern of brown spots and dots. 



Sexl—^Vmg, 9.5 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae with the scapal segments brown; 

 flagellum broken; basal scapal segment very long. Head with a greyish-yellow 

 pollen. 



Mesonotal praeseutum obscure brownish-yellow, handsomely patterned with 

 dark brown; a conspicuous median stripe that is paler anteriorly, broadening out 

 and becoming darker behind; this stripe is split by a capillary, darker brown 

 vitta, on either side of which, before the suture, is a pale linear streak of the 

 ground-colour ; sublateral stripes small, barely attaining the suture ; lateral 

 margin with a large, circular, pale brown spot that is margined with darker 

 brown; scutum with the median area dark brown, the lobes obscure brownish- 

 yellow with dark brown centres; lateral margins of the seutal lobes dark brown; 

 seutellum pale yellowish-brown, darker basally; postnotum with the median 



