10 NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN CRANE-FLIES FROM JAPAN 



Ma?e.— Length, 3.3-3.4 mm.; wing, 4.3-4.5 mm. 



Female.— Length, 3.8-4.1 mm.; wing, 5-5.6 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brownish black. Antennae black, short in both 

 sexes. Head black. 



Thorax shiny black, the praescutum laterad of the oseudosutural foveae 

 a little paler. Halteres dark brown, the stem pale yellow. Legs with the 

 coxae dark brownish black; trochanters dull yellow; remainder of the legs 

 dark brown, the bases of the femora yellowish. Wings with a uniform pale 

 gray tinge; veins dark brown, clothed with long brown hairs. Venation: 

 r almost in aUgnment with the basal deflection of Rt+i,; basal deflections of 

 Mz and Cui about equal, a Uttle shorter than the fusion of Mi and Cui. 



Abdomen black, covered with long, brownish yellow hairs. Male hypopy- 

 gium with the pleural appendages projecting far caudad as two long, straight 

 arms vhich are slightly curved before the acute tips; in addition, the penis- 

 guard, pale yellow in color, projects to a nearly equal distance. 



Habitat.— Japan. Holotype, 9 , Meguro, Tokio, April 28, 

 1919, (R. Takahashi). Allotopotype, cf , April 24, 1919. Para- 

 topotypes, 18 9 d^, April 28 to May 12, 1919. 



Molophilus trifilatus suggests the European M. hifilatus Verrall 

 in the structure of the male hypopygium, but is easily told by 

 the intense black color of the body. 



Tribe Limnophilini 

 Genus EPIPHRAGMA Osten Sacken 

 Epiphragma subfascipennis new species 



Antennae with the flagellum orange-yellow, the last three or four segments 

 darkened; mesonotal praescutum with light gray stripes; halteres light yellow 

 throughout; femora with a narrow brown annulus near the tip; wings fasciate 

 with brown, fading into gray in the posterior wing-cells; cell 1st Mi small; 

 abdominal tergites broadly margined caudally with gray. 



Male. — Length, about 11.5 mm.; wing, 11.7 mm. 



Female. — Length, about 12.5 mm.; wing, 13.8 mm. 



Rostrum brown, the dorsal surface covered with a sparse yellow pollen; 

 palpi dark brown. Antennae with the scapal segments dark brown ; flagellum 

 light orange-yellow with only the last three or four segments faintly dark- 

 ened; antennae rather elongate for this genus of flies. Head velvety brown, 

 the anterior part of the vertex marked with yellow pollen, encircling the 

 antennal fossae, the slight vertical tubercle and along the inner margin of 

 the eyes. 



Pronotum dark brown. Mesonotum rich brown, more saturated at the 

 humeral regions and across the cephaUc margin of the scleritc; praescutal 

 stripes yellowish gray, the median stripe split by a capillary brown line; 

 remainder of the mesonotum light gray, the scutellum and the median area 



