6 NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN CRANE-FLIES FROM JAPAN 



Habitat.— 3 apsm. Holotype, d", Saitama, May 29, 1919, (R. 

 Takahashi). AUotopotype, 9 , May 29, 1919. Paratopotypes, 

 8 d" 9, May 29 to 31, 1919. 



Limnobia suhnubeculosa is related to L. nubeculosa Meigen 

 (Europe) and L. sciophila Osten Sacken (Western North Amer- 

 ica). 



Genus LIBNOTES Westwood 



Libnotes regina new species 



Large (wing of female over 20 mm.); antennal Hagellum pale; general 

 coloration yellowish brown,the thoracic pleura yellow with narrow brown 

 longitudinal stripes; femora and tibiae tipped with dark brown; wings uni- 

 formly yellow, sparsely spotted along the veins with brown. 

 Female. — Length, 17 mm.; wing, 21. .5 mm. 



Rostrum rather slender, reddish brown; mouthparts brown; palpi dark 

 brown. Antennae with the scape dark brown; basal flagellar segments 

 greenish yellow, the terminal segments darkened; first scapal segment a 

 little longer than the rostrum. Head reddish brown, the vertex between 

 the eyes reduced to a narrow linear strip. 



Neck distinct. Pronotum reddish brown. Mesonotal praescutum reddish 

 brown, darker brown medially and laterally; beyond mid-length of the prae- 

 scutum is a square, median, gray area, bordered on the sides and in front 

 by a dark brown line; scutum broadly gray medially, the lobes largely dark 

 brown; scutellum and postnotum pale gray, the latter with the sides dark 

 brown. Pleura yellow with strong green tints, with three narrow, dark brown 

 longitudinal stripes, the first on the sides of the pronotum, ending above the 

 fore coxa; the second, dorsal stripe beginning immediately dorsad of the 

 caudal end of the first stripe, extending to beyond the wing-root; the third 

 stripe is on the sternopleura, ending above the posterior coxa, interrupted 

 above the mesocoxa. Halteres yellow, the knobs brown. Legs with the 

 coxae pale, the posterior coxae strongly greenish in freshly-killed specimens; 

 trochanters yellow; femora yellow, the tips broadly brownish black, the 

 extreme tip on the ventral face paler brown; tibiae dull yellow, the tips nar- 

 rowly dark brown; first two tarsal segments brownish yellow, the tips nar- 

 rowly darkened; remainder of the tarsi dark brown. Wings with a strong 

 yellow tinge that is practically uniform over the wing-surface; dark brown 

 spots and dots on the veins, larger spots at the tip of Sci, origin of Rs, tip of 

 Ri, r, along the cord and at the tips of veins Cui and 2nd A ; small brown dots 

 on most of the longitudinal veins; a narrow brown seam in cell Cui parallel 

 to the wing-margin. Venation: Rs slightly spurred near its origin; /// about 

 two-fifths the length of cell 1st Mi. 



Abdomen dull yellow, the tergites very indistinctly darker medially; first 

 tergite with a large triangular dark brown area on either side; lateral mar- 

 gins of the tergites indistinctly dark brown; sternites with a dark brown 

 lateral spot near the base of the segments, larger and more distinct on the 

 terminal segments. Terebra of the ovipositor rather short. 



