THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 285 



REPORT ON A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE CRANE- 

 FLIES (TIPULID^), WITH A KEY TO THE SPECIES 

 OF PTYCHOPTERA. 



BY CHARLES P. ALEXANDER, ITHACA, N.Y. 



(Continued from Page 210.) 

 Gonomyia (Gonomyia) superba, sp. n. 



Antenna?, brown; color, brown and yellow; \-ein, Sc ends 

 slightly beyond the origin of Rs. 



Male. — Length, 5-5.5 mm.; wing, 4.9 mm. 



Female. — Length, 5.9 mm; wing, 5.2-5.5 mm. 



Male. — Rostrum yellow, palpi brown; antenna^ brown, in- 

 cluding the basal segments; front, vertex and occiput dull yellow, 

 the vertex clearer yellow behind. 



Pronotum, clear light yellow above; on the sides, a short, dull 

 brown stripe from the cervical sclerites down to above the fore coxa. 

 Mesonotum, prsescutum very light yellowish brown, with rich 

 chestnut-brown stripes, a median stripe, broad and dark in front, 

 narrow behind, and again enlarged at its end divided by a pale, 

 narrow, median stripe; lateral stripes short, beginning behind the 

 pseudosutural pits crossing the transverse suture and suffusing the 

 lobes of the scutum; lateral edge of the prsescutum, in front, yel- 

 lowish; behind, brown; scutellum pale, whitish; the base and lateral 

 edges tinged with brownish, post notum brown. Pleurae clear yellow- 

 ish white, an irregular dark brown mark behind and above the base of 

 the coxa ; sternum yellow, the sides of the mesosternum, between the 

 fore and middle legs, brown, separated by a broad median pale 

 mark; the propleural stripe begins on the prosternum as a rounded 

 mark which sends out a narrow caudal prolongation. Halteres 

 light yellow. Legs: coxae and trochanters light yellow, margins 

 of the segments more or less brown ; femora and tibiae light brown ; 

 tarsi somewhat darker brown. Wings, hyaline or nearly so; veins 

 brown, costa more yellowish. Venation (see fig. 14, pi. Ill): Sc 

  ending slightly beyond the origin of Rs; basal deflection of Cu^ 

 about at the fork of M. 



Abdomen, tergum, light yellow, each segment with a large 

 brown mark on basal half, the caudal margin of this mark much 



September. 1913 



