AiiT4 CRANE FLIES EEOM SIBERIA ALEXANDER 9 



Tribe PEDICIINI 



Genus PEDICIA Latreille 



1809. Pedicia Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., vol. 4, p. 255. 

 1916. Daimiotipula Matsumura, Thous. Ins. Japan, add. 2, p. 463. 



PEDICIA COCKERELLI, new species 



General coloration gray and yellow; wings with the costal margin 

 pale brown, the remaining markings dark brown but restricted in 

 extent; basistyle of male hypopygium produced into a slender acute 

 horn. 



Male. — Length, 20 mm.; wing, 19.5 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae brown, the basal seg- 

 ments of the flagellum short and crowded, the terminal segments 

 elongate and with conspicuous verticils. Head dark gray; vertical 

 tubercle distinct. 



Pronotum obscure yellow, the sides of the anterior notum with a 

 brown spot. Mesonotal praescutum yellow with four distinct brown 

 spots, the intermediate pair only vaguely separated from one another 

 by a capillary pale line; lateral stripes crossing the suture onto the 

 scutal lobes; scutellum yellow; postnotal mediotergite testaceous^ 

 darkened behind. Pleura yellowish testaceous, the sternoplsurite 

 darkened ventrally; postnotal pleurotergite with a dark spot at the 

 base of the halter. Halteres pale, the knobs obscure yellow. Legs 

 with the coxae and trochanters light brown; femora yellow, the tips 

 conspicuously blackened; tibiae brownish yellow, the bases narrowly 

 and indistinctly, the tips more broadly and conspicuously, inf uscated ; 

 tarsi brown. Wings of the usual Pedicia pattern, the costal margin 

 much paler brown than the remaining dark markings, the humeral 

 region almost yellow; brown seam along vein Cu^ continued to the 

 margin but becoming less defined outwardly; brown markings less 

 extensive than in daimio (Matsumura); a pale spot in cell R^ oppo- 

 site the level of the cord, as in daimio. 



Venation: Cell 1st M^ relatively small; petiole of cell M^ nearly 

 twice m; basal deflection of Cu^ a short distance beyond the fork 

 of M. 



Abdominal segments nearly uniform rusty brown, without distinct 

 darker markings in the rubbed unique type; hypopygium passing 

 into brown. Male hypopygium with the ventral apical angle of each 

 basistyle (fig. 2) produced into a shiny, acutely pointed horn that is- 

 gently curved, these horns directed dorsad and slighth^ mcsad, the- 

 apex of each horn deeply grooved on ventral mesal face, the apex; 

 microscopically bifid; dorsal apical angle of basistyle with rather- 

 numerous yellow setae. Dististyles elongate, darkened, -the apex; 

 shiny, obtuse. 



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