DESCRIPTION OF A DAPANOPTERA FROM AUSTRALIA — SKUSE. 109 
uplieaved, and that a stream of Papuan life poured into Australia 
across the bridge so made.” 
As aptly remarked by Osten-Sacken, the species of Dapanoptera 
“ are the birds of paradise among the Tipuluhe, the more so as 
they come from the home of the true birds of paradise.” 
Order DIPTERA. 
Family Tipulid/E. 
Dapanoptera, Osten-Sacken . 
Dapanoptera richmondiana, sp. nov. 
and $ Length of antennae 0*063 in... 1*60 m.m. 
Expanse of wings... 0*380 x 0*098 in... 9*60 x 2*40 
Size of body 0*279 x 0*048 in... 7*50 x 1*20 
Bright ochreous yellow. Head, rostrum, and palpi black ; 
antennas brown, fourteen^ ointed ; first joint of the scapus twice 
the length of the second ; flagellar joints twice as long as broad, 
verticil late-pilose. Thorax more or less tinged with brown at the 
sides, and sometimes with the indication of a median stripe ; 
pleurae sometimes brownish beneath the bases of wings. Club of 
halteres brownish. Abdomen more or less distinctly brown or 
blackish above, especially the last segments ; male forceps with 
a distinct adminiculum ; female ovipositor slightly curved, ochre- 
ous. Legs long, the femora sooty or dark brown at the tips. 
Wings concolorous with the body and legs, with two brown patches ; 
a hyaline stripe starting between the bases of the sixth and seventh 
longitudinal veins and widening to the middle to the anal cell 
between the fifth and sixth, terminating at the flrst brown patch ; 
and an elliptical hyaline spot at the end of the first longitudinal 
vein ; the first brown patch extends from the costal to the posterior 
margin of the wing, it is widest between the costa and the fourth 
vein and abruptly narrower in the second basal cell, from whence 
it again widens to the border ; the second patch is roundish, wider 
than the first, occurs before the tip of the wing and encloses the 
discal cell, and the white elliptical spot at the tip of the first longi- 
tudinal vein occurs about midway between its sides. Auxiliary 
vein reaching costa opposite the distal end of pnefurca which is 
very angularly bent ; subcostal cross-vein rather long, close to 
the tip of the auxiliary ; first longitudinal vein (and cross- vein) 
evanescent or very pale above the hyaline spot ; supernumerary 
