21,4 Alexander: Little-known Tipulide (Diptera) 379 
Abdomen with the basal segment black, dusted with gray; 
tergites 2 and 3 bright rufous, gray pruinose basally on the 
sides and with a broad, median black stripe; tergites 4 to 7 
black, dusted with gray; segments 8 and 9 rufous; sternites 1 to 
3 and 8 and 9 rufous; sternites 4 to 7 black. Ovipositor with the 
valves very long and slender, rufous at base, passing into horn 
color at the gently upcurved tips of the tergal valves. 
MINDANAO, Bukidnon Subprovince, Tangcolan (Baker). 
Eriocera vittipennis is abundantly distinct from all described 
species of this large and complex genus. 
TIPULIN 4 
Scamboneura plumbea sp. nov. 
General coloration dark plumbeous, dusted with gray; wings 
faintly grayish brown, cell Sc and the stigma brown; abdominal 
segments cross-banded with reddish orange and blue-black. 
Female.—Length, 17 millimeters; wing, 15. 
Frontal prolongation of head dark brownish black, narrowly 
obscure reddish on the dorsolateral region; nasus conspicuous, 
black; palpi dark brown, the elongate terminal segment paler 
on basal half. Antenne black, including the scape, the tip of 
the second scapal segment narrowly paler. Head black, the 
vertex obscurely reddish behind the antennz, the color extended 
as a narrow border to the eyes. 
Prothorax dark plumbeous. Mesonotal prescutum and scutum 
dark plumbeous, only the humeral region very restrictedly 
obscure reddish; scutellum obscure yellow; postnotum plum- 
beous, the lateral sclerites more testaceous. Pleura plumbeous 
with a light, blue-gray bloom. Halteres dark brown, base of the 
stem brightened. Legs with the coxae blue-gray; trochanters 
yellow; femora dark brown, narrowly brighter at base; tibie 
and tarsi brownish black. Wings with a faint grayish brown 
tinge, a little darker beyond the cord; cell Sc and the small 
stigma darker brown; veins dark brownish black. Venation: 
Se, ending opposite the base of r-m, Sc, at its tip; Rs short but 
distinct; R,+, about equal to the deflection of R,+,, in align- 
ment with R,+.; r at fork of R,+,; tip of R, atrophied; de- 
flection of R,+, directed basad as in the genus, subequal to 
r-m; forks of cells M,, M,, and M,, deep; basal deflection of 
Cu, about two-thirds of its length beyond the fork of M. The 
stigma entirely fills the small cell 1st R.. 
Abdomen with the basal tergite plumbeous; segment 2 red- 
dish, darker dorsomedially, the apical two-fifths shiny blue- 
