ALEXANDER, CRANE FLIES FR. S. CHILE & TIERRA D. FUEGO. 27 



Habitat. — Territory of Magallanes, Chile. 



Holotype, J^, Punta Arenas, Straits of Magellan, Novem- 

 ber 28, 1895 (Ohlin) Collector's No. 212. 



Allotopotype, $> November 25, 1895 (O. Nordenskjöld). 



Paratopotypes, one J* with the type; one $ with the 

 allotype. 



Type in the Riksmuseum in Stockholm. 



Tipula fuegiensis, sp. n. 



Belongs *to the glaphyroptera group; close to T. patago- 

 nica, sp. n.; antennae short, the basal segments påle; wings 

 with no transverse whitish band beyond the stigma; longi- 

 tudinal white streaks in cells R, 1st M2; the outer half of 

 Bö and the outer end of Cu; eighth sternite of the male 

 hypopygium with a trifid appendage. 



Male. — Length about 15 mm.; wing, 16,5 mm. 



Antennae rather short, if bent backward scarsely attai- 

 ning the wing-root; the basal three or four segments dull 

 brownish yellow, the remaining segments more uniformly 

 brown. Head light gray pruinose, with a very narrow and 

 indistinct capillary brown line. 



Mesonotal praescutum dark brown with three dark gray 

 stripes, the median stripe split by a capillary brown line 

 that broadens out behind; postnotum light reddish gray 

 pruinose. Plenra grayish with an indistinct brown longitu- 

 dinal stripe. Femora with a broad, indistinct brownish ring 

 immediately before the tip. Wings with a strong brownish 

 tinge, more saturated in the costal and subcostal cells; hya- 

 line areas as follows: near the end of cell B; above the end 

 of vein Se, in the costal cell; most of cell 1st M2; the outer 

 half of cell B5; the outer third of cell Cu and a narrow 

 anterior börder along cell 1st A; brownish markings as fol- 

 lows: a rounded cloud at the origin of Bs, passing into the 

 subcostal cell; a small brown area in the extreme end of 

 cell Se; a brown seam behind vein Cu. 



Abdomen dull yellow, the tergites with three narrow, 

 indistinct brown longitudinal stripes; subterminal segments, 

 six to eight, dark brown. Male hypopygium with the ninth 

 tergite (plate 1, fig. 2) large, on either side of the median 



