26 NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN CRANE-FLIES FROM JAPAN 



brownish black. Halteres dull yellow, the knobs brown with the tips yellow- 

 ish. Legs yellow, the tibiae narrowly tipped with dark brown; tarsi dark 

 brown. Wings pale yellowish subhyaline, cell Sc dark brown; stigma oval, 

 dark brown; a distinct broad brown seam along the cord extending from the 

 stigma along the cord, following the deflection of Cui and C(/> to the margin; 

 wing-tip broadly infuscated; longitudinal veins beyond the cord narrowly 

 seamed with brown; veins dark brown. Venation: cell Mi very short- 

 petiolate. 



Abdominal tergites yellow, with a broad black interrupted dorso-median 

 stripe, each segment with a triangular black area with the narrow end directed 

 cephalad; a shiny basal strip light yellow; lateral niargins of the segments 

 broadly black; eighth tergite entirely black; sternites dull yellow. Ovi- 

 positor with the valves rather long, acute. 



Habitat. — Japan. Holotype, 9 , Kioto, May 27, 1914, (Akio 

 Nohira). 



In the pattern of the wings Nephrotoma bifusca resembles the 

 European N. qnadrifaria (Meigen). 



