G8 Journal New York Entomological Society. [N'oI. xxvi. 



Genus Tipula Linnasus. 

 Tipula asio new species. 



Male. — length 13.3-14 mm.; wing 17.5 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head rather elongate, yellow, with a narrow 

 brown dorso-median line; palpi dark brown. Antennae short; four basal seg- 

 ments yellow, the apical segments of the flagellum blackish basally, the re- 

 mainder of each segment a little paler; flagellar segments with the basal en- 

 largement inconspicuous, with about four long verticils that exceed the 

 segment. 



Thoracic prjescutum gray with three broad grayish-brown stripes that are 

 narrowly margined with darker, the median stripe narrowly bisected ; scutum 

 with the lobes largely dark gray ; scutellum and postnotum yellow with a nar- 

 row brown median line. Pleura gray. Halteres pale at the base, the stem 

 darkened, the knob dark brown, orange at the apex. Legs with the coxje, 

 trochanters and base of femora yellow ; remainder pf femora yellowish-brown, 

 the apices dark brown ; tibise brown, the apical half dark brown ; tarsi dark 

 brown. Wings marbled with gray, brown and subhyaline ; cell C yellowish- 

 brown ; stigmal area largely dark brown ; a brown spot at the origin of Rs 

 and another in the end of cell R.^ and the middle of R^; base of cells R and M 

 brownish ; remainder of the wings grayish with large whitish spots and 

 blotches; a large blotch extending across the wing near the base; a large spot 

 near the end of cell M ; other spots at the end of vein ist A, 2d A, end of 

 cell 1st A and in the anal angle of the wing. Venation : R^ persistent ; petiole 

 of Ml short, less than cross-vein ;;/ ; cross-vein m-cu obliterated or punctiform. 



Habitat : Japan. 



Holotype, ^, Shinafio, Japan, Sept. 9, 191 6 (Nohira). 



Paratopotype, J", Aug. 9, 191 6. 



Tipula tateyamse new species. 



Male. — Length 11. 5-12. 2 mm.; wing 14-15. 5 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head dark, gray pruinose ; nasus short; palpi 

 dark brown. Antennae moderate in length ; first scapal segment dark brown ; 

 second segment yellowish ; flagellum black. Head brownish-gray, paler gray 

 along the inner margin of the eye; a more or less distinct median brown mark 

 on the vertex. 



Mcsonotum dull yellowish-gray with three prasscutal stripes, the median 

 one indistinctly bisected by a pale line ; scutum and postnotum gray ; scu- 

 tellum testaceous gray. Pleura clear light gray. Halteres pale brown, the 

 knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxa; dusted with light gray ; trochanters 

 dull yellow ; femora dull yellow, broadly tipped with dark brown ; tibiae dark 

 brown, the apices narrowly blackish-brown ; tarsi dark brown. Wings with a 

 strong reddish-brown suffusion ; cells C and Sc and the base of the wing yel- 

 low ; stigma small, ill-defined, dark brown ; veins dark brown ; obliterative 

 streak yellowish, beginning before the stigma, running to about mid-length of 

 cell M^; a pale suft'usion beyond the stigma. 



