588 NEW OH LITTLE-KNOWN SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN TIPULIDAE, i., 



marked with cream-coloured dashes and dots; m-cu at two-thirds the length of 

 cell 1st M2 ; cell Mi sessile. 



?. Length, 27 mm.; wing, 23 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head long and slender, dark brownish-black. 

 Antennae brownish testaceous. Head dark brown; a narrow but conspicuous dull 

 fulvous border adjoining the inner margin of each eye. 



Mesonotal praescutum brown with three broad, dark brown stripes that are 

 only a little darker in colour than the disc; scutum and scutellum destroyed; 

 postnotum posteriorly light brown, the posterior half of the lateral sclerite of 

 postnotum dark brown. Propleura, mesepisternum and mesosternum dark 

 brown; posterior selerites of pleui-a brownish testaceous. Halteres elongate, dark 

 brown, the base of the stem and the knobs indistinctly pale. Legs with the coxse 

 dark brown, the outer faces of the fore and middle coxae each with a con- 

 spicuous pale spot, posterior coxae more uniformly darkened; trochanters brown- 

 ish testaceous; legs stout; femora brown, all but the fore femora with an in- 

 distinct pale subterminal ring; tibiae and tarsi brown. Wings with a strong 

 dusky tinge; cells C, Sc and the stigma darker brown; membrane narrowly 

 variegated with cream-coloured markings as follows: two narrow V-shaped areas 

 beginning in cell M, continued across cell Cu, the basal one continued into cell 

 2nd A, the distal one ending at vein 1st A or continued as a very narrow line 

 across cell 1st A; small spots in base of cell M; in cell R before the) cord; in 

 base of cell R2 beyond the stigma; in the bases of cells 2nd M2 and Ms, and in 

 the caudal distal angle of cell Cui adjoining vein Cu2; veins dark brown. Vena- 

 tion: E3 one-half longer than R2^3; cell 1st M2 large, widened distally; m-cu 

 at about two-thirds the length of cell 1st M2, the basal section of M3+4 about 

 twice the second section; ^ell Mi sessile. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, the caudal margins very iiarrowly, the 

 caudal lateral angles more broadly obscure yellow; sternites beyond the base 

 more uniformly pale. Ovipositor with the elongate valves straigtit. 



Hab. — South Queensland. 



Holotype, ?, Queensland National Park, Maepherson Range, altitude 3,000 

 feet, February 27, 1921 (G. H. Hardy). 



Habrojiastis; hilli, n.sp. 



c?. Length, 12.5 — 13.5 mm.; wing, 13 — 13.5 mm.; antenna, about 7.5 — 9 

 mm. 



Most closely allied to H. cinerascens Skuse, from which it difiers as follows: 



Antennae much shorter, ending about opposite the base of the fifth abdominal 

 segment, or about equal to three-fifths the length of the body. Mesonotal praeseu^ 

 tum with three brown stripes, the median stripe sometimes split with pale only 

 at the anterior end; postnotum darkened on the posterior third. Abdominal ter- 

 gites with a broad dorso-median stripe, the caudal margins of the segments 

 broadly grey, the lateral margins narrowly ochreous; basal tergite ochreous at 

 base. 



Hah. — Victoria. 



Holotype, d", Ararat (G. F. Hill). Paratopotypiss, 2 c?; paratype, <S, Eltham, 

 April 17, 1920 (L. B. Thorn). 



HABROilASTIX HILLI SUBLATEEALIS, U.Subsp. 



$. Length about 13 mm.; wing, 13 mm. 

 Differs from typical hilli as follows : 



