BV FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1375 
entire body, in the J longer ; stigma not noticeable ; veins umber 
brown. Costal vein extending beyond the tip of the second longi- 
tudinal vein, in the ^ one-third and in the 9 nearly half tho 
distance from that to the tip of the anterior branch of the third 
longitudinal fork ; auxiliary vein reaching the costa almost oppo- 
site, but immediately before in the and in the 9 exactly opposite, 
the base of the third submarginal cell ; first longitudinal vein 
joining the costa beyond the middle of the anterior branch of the 
second longitudinal ; anterior branch of the second longitudinal 
vein a little arcuated at its base ; marginal cross-vein a little bent, 
twice the length of the petiole of the third submarginal cell ; 
branches of the third longitudinal fork gradually divergeirt; middle 
cross-vein very distinct, originating near the base of the anterior 
branch of the fourth longitudinal fork, joining the second longitu- 
dinal vein in the opposite, in the 9 ^ little beyond, the tip of 
the marginal cross-vein ; branches of the fourth longitudinal con- 
siderably divergent towards their tips ; fifth longitudinal vein 
complete, reaching the border a short distance behind the 
posterior branch of the fourth longitudinal vein. 
Ifab. — Cairns and Barron River, Noi’thern Queensland (Fi’oggatt). 
185. Plecia erebea, sp.n. (PI. xxxix., fig. 5, ^). 
— Length of antennse 0'025 inch ... 0-62 millimHre. 
Expanse of wings 0'200 x 0-070 ... 5-08 x 1-77 
Size of body 0-200 x0-035 ... 5.08 x0-88 
9- — Length of antenna) 0-030 inch ... 0-76 millimetre. 
Expanse of wings 0-250x0-090 ... 6-35 x 2-27 
Size of body 0-2-20 x 0-040 ... 5-58 x 1-01 
and 9- — Wholly black. Antenna; rather robust, in the ^ 
shorter than the head, in the 9 about the length of the head, 
2- + 8-jointed, densely covered with a minute pul)esccncc, all the 
Joints with very short verticils. Eyes not be.set with hairs. 
