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What has been preserved of the venation is not sufficient to 
allow us to refer it with certainty to any genus. But the position of 
the mentioned veins, and the infuscation along the named wing parts 
indicate the genus Tipula proper of which we know a large group 
of species presenting the same peculiarities (f. inst. the recent eluta 
Lw., and several Miocene ( maclurei , limi etc.) figured and described 
in Scudder: Tertiary Tipulidæ (Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. XXXII. p. 224 
1893—94). 
The present species is highly characteristic by the 2 distinct, 
rounded, eye-like spots (when similar spots are found in other forms 
they are never well outlined but diffuse and longish, extending more 
or less backwards on the wing), and the relatively long fork formed 
by Mi and M 2 . The insect measures 3 .05 cm. from tip of head to 
tip of wing. 
1 specimen. Skærbæk (poss. Min. Museum). 
Eriocera dimidiata n. sp. 
This cranefly-wing does not present the two foremost longitudinal 
veins (C and Sc); the foremost part has obviously been folded over 
and is hidden behind the radial part of the wing. The venation 
otherwise totally agrees with that of the recent tropical genus Erio¬ 
cera ., and within this genus with the oriental species-group having 
Cu 2 in direct elongation of the Cu-stem. To the genus Eriocera 2 
Tertiary species, saccini Lw. and palpata Lw. also belong, both 
from amber, but none of them presenting any nearer relation to the 
Eocene species which is characterized by all its cross-veins being 
placed more basally than in all other species of this genus, so that 
the issue of R 4-5 and the inner border of the discoidal cell are al¬ 
most in the centre of the wing and basad to the ending of the anal 
vein in the hind margin of the wing. Cu 2 is half as long as the Cu 
stem, and the discoidal cell some times longer than high. All the 
other distal vein parts are likewise of very great length so that it 
may, be justifiable to characterize all the apical part of the wing as 
unusually elongated. Length of wing 9.5 mm. 
1 specimen. Struer (poss. Min. Museum). 
