Vol. xxv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 357 



Holotype. Male, Theresopolis, Brazil, in the Hungarian 

 National Museum. 



The remarkable hypopygium of the male at once separates 

 it off from the other species in the Neotropical fauna. 



Tipula guarani sp. n. 



Antennae brownish yellow ; thorax brownish gray with brown 

 stripes ; femora brownish yellow, tip broadly brown ; wings hyaline 

 with brown spots and gray clouds. 



Fein-ale. Length, 33 mm.; wing, 23.2 mm.; fore leg, femur, n.6 

 mm. ; tibia, 14.4 mm. 



Palpi rather long, the three basal segments rather stout, the last 

 segment slender, palpi dark brown ; frontal prolongation of the head 

 rather long, brown ; antennse, segment I elongate, first flagellar seg- 

 ment rather stout, antennae brownish yellow; head pale yellowish 

 brown with a narrow stripe of dark brown. 



Thoracic pronotum pale gray, dark brown medially. Mesonotal 

 prgescutum light brownish-gray with dark brown stripes, the median 

 stripe broadest in front, a little narrowed behind, the thoracic stripes 

 contrasting strongly against the pale ground color; scutal lobes largely 

 brown with an isolated rounded brown spot on the cephalic margin 

 of each lobe, this being the caudal end of the lateral prasscutal stripe ; 

 median portion of the scutum brown; scutellum and postnotum gray- 

 ish brown medially. Pleurae dull gray with brown spots on the meso- 

 pleurae. Halteres rather long, brown, the knob darker. 



Leg, coxae grayish brown; trochanters dull yellow; femora brown- 

 ish yellow, the tip broadly dark brown; the fore legs, especially, show 

 a broad yellow subapical ring; tibiae brownish yellow, the tip indis- 

 tinctly darker; tarsi brown. 



Wings hyaline with brown spots and gray clouds, as follows: 

 Brown spots at the base of the wing, midlength of the distance be- 

 tween the base of Ri and the origin of the sector; at origin of Rs, 

 stigmal region, brown seam to vein Cu and most of the crossveins 

 and deflections of veins; tip of cells R2 and R$ grayish brown; gray 

 clouds in all the caudal cells of the wing. Venation : Rs long, slen- 

 der, lying rather close to Ri ; crossvein m-cu present. 



Abdominal tergite I brownish gray; 2-8, dull orange-yellow, a little 

 suffused with darker; segment 9 and ovipositor brown; sternites yel- 

 low, median line brown. Ovipositor, tergal valves very long, very 

 slender and straight, the margins smooth, tips scarcely expanded, 

 sternal valves short. 



Holotype. Female, Rio Grande, Brazil, in the Hungarian 

 National Museum. 



The specific name is that of a native Indian tribe. 



