ALEXANDER, CRANE FLIES FR. S. CHILE & TIERRA D. FUEGO. 21 



Holotype, J*, Panta Arenas, Straits of Magellan, Decem- 

 ber 12, 1895 (O. Nordenskjöld). 



Paratopotype, J^. 



Type in the Riksmuseum in Stockholm. 



In the yellow-ringed femora, Tipula antarctica agrees 

 with T. jlavo-annulata Jacobs (Rio Gallegas, Straits of Ma- 

 gellan) which has the head, thorax and coxae black. 



Tipula magellanica, sp. n. 



Antennae rather short, dark brown, the second segment 

 dull yellow; head dull gray; wings grayish brown, variegated 

 with subhyaline areas, including spöts before and beyond 

 the stigma and along the wing-margin at the ends of cells 

 Rs to 1st A; ninth tergite of the male hypopygium with a 

 broad U-shaped median notch; eighth sternite with a small 

 semicircular lobe whose apex is indistinctly notched medially 

 and provided with a fringe of long hairs. 



Male. — Length about 13 mm.; wing, 16 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head reddish brown, spar- 

 sely light gray pruinose; palpi dark brown. Antennae rather 

 short, the first segment dull reddish, sparsely gray pruinose; 

 second segment dull yellow; f lageilar segments dark brown, 

 the basal enlargement rather conspicuous, each provided 

 with about five long verticils. Head dull gray with an in- 

 distinct dark brown capillary median line. 



Mesonotum badly discolored in the unique type, dark 

 brown; in fresh specimens presumably gray pruinose. Hal- 

 teres dark brown, the base of the stem more yellowish. 

 Legs with the coxae light brown; trochanters dull yellow; 

 femora and tibiae brownish yellow, the tips dark brown; 

 tarsi dark brown. Wings grayish brown, variegated with 

 subhyaline areas; subcostal cell with two dark brown areas 

 in addition to the dark apex, the dark areas smaller than 

 the påle interspaces; stigma dark brown; påle areas before 

 and beyond the stigma; a large blotch in cell M adjoining 

 vein Cu; indistinct påle clouds in cell 1st M2 and the ad- 

 joining part of cell Rö\ conspicuous påle spöts along the 

 wing-margin in cells R3, R5, Mu 2nd M2, M4 and three in 

 cell 1st A. Venation: cell 1st M2 rather small; petiole of cell 

 Ml a little longer than cell 1st Mg. 



