14 NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN CRANE-FLIES FROM JAPAN 



Tribe Hexatomini 

 Genus ERIOCERA Macquart 



Eriocera longifurca new species 



General coloration black, dusted with light gray; mesonotal praescutum 

 with three black stripes; legs black; wings yellowish, the cross-veins heavily 

 margined with brown; ovipositor of the female with the tergal valves long 

 and straight, the sternal valves inconspicuous. 



Male. — Length, about 11 mm.; wing, 12.5 mm. 



Female. — Length, 17 mm.; wing, 13.2 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae short in both sexes, black. Head 

 gray pruinose. 



Mesonotum light gray pruinose, the praescutum with three blackish stripes, 

 the median stripe broad in front, rapidly narrowed behind and becoming 

 obliterated before the suture, indistinctly split by a capillary pale marking; 

 lateral stripes narrow; scutum gray, each lobe with two black markings; 

 scutellum and postnotum gray. Pleura gray. Halteres very short, the 

 stem pale, darker at the extreme base, the knobs brown. Legs with the 

 coxae gray pruinose; remainder of the legs black. Wings with a faint yellow 

 tinge, the costal and subcostal cells more saturated; stigma small, oval, dark 

 brown; broad brown seams at the origin of the sector, along the cord, outer 

 end of cell 1st M2, apex of the wing and along veins Cu and 2nd A: veins dark 

 brown, Sc yellow. Venation: r inserted at about mid length of vein R2, 

 R2+3 very short, about one-half longer than r-m; cell 1st M> long and narrow, 

 longer than the veins issuing from it; basal deflection of Cui before mid-length 

 of cell 1st M2. 



Abdomen black, sparsely gray pruinose, the posterior margins of the seg- 

 ments narrowly pale, more distinct on the sternites of the female. Male 

 hypopygium not conspicuously enlarged. Ovipositor with the tergal valves 

 long and straight, lying parallel to one another, transverse, blackened; sternal 

 valves very short, not projecting beyond the base of the tergal valves; ninth 

 tergite opaque, dusted with gray pollen. 



Habitat. — Japan. Holotype, d', Saitama, May 31, 1919, (R. 



Takahashi). Allotopotype, 9. 



Trilje Pedicinii 



Genus TRICYPHONA Zetterstedt 

 Tricyphona kuwanai Alexander 

 1913. Tricyphona kuwanai Alexander, Can. Ent., xlv, pp. 318, 319. 



The male sex of this bizarre fly has not been described. It 

 may be distinguished from the female by the following char- 

 acters : 



Allotype.— d", Meguro, Tokio, Japan, April 14, 1919, (R. Taka- 

 hashi). 



