70 Journal New York Entomological Society. C^'o'- xxvi. 



Pronotuni yellowish. Mcsonotal prsescutuni dull brownish-yellow, the 

 usual three stripes gray, the median one broadly divided by a pale line of the 

 ground-color and confluent with the lateral stripes or nearly so ; pseudo- 

 sutural fovea very deep and prominent ; scutum obscure brown, the lobes 

 gray ; scutelluni and postnotum dull brownish-yellow. Pleura pale, very 

 sparsely whitish pruinose. Halteres light brown. Legs dull brownish-yellow, 

 the tips of the femora broadly, those of the tibiae narrowly, dark brown ; tarsi 

 yellowish-brown, the segments tipped with dark brown, the last two segments 

 uniform brown. Wings with a heavy yellowish-brown to brown pattern ; 

 costal and subcostal cells more yellow ; remainder of the wings brownish, 

 more gray in the caudal cells ; white areas as follows : a broad band before the 

 cord extending from in front of the stigma across the basal half of cell 

 1st Mo almost to the wing-margin in cell Cmi ; base of cells M-y, Mj, and M3 

 and the apical half of R^ of this color; a large blotch in the middle of cell M, 

 extending caudad into cell Cu ; a large blotch in the" base of cell Cii, indis- 

 tinctly suffusing the base of the anal cells. Venation : tip of R-. strongly per- 

 sistent. 



Abdominal tergites light yellowish-brown with a broad dark brown sub- 

 lateral band becoming indistinct on the seventh tergite ; lateral margins nar- 

 rowly and indistinctly yellowish ; sternites brownish-yellow, the caudal mar- 

 gins narrowly paler and with an indistinct brown subterminal ring. Oviposi- 

 tor chestnut. 



Habitat : Japan. 



Holotype, J- Akakitra, Province Echigo, Japan, August 6, 1914 

 (Nohira). 



Paratype, 2' Yoshino, Japan, August 2, 1913 (Nohira). 



Tipula aluco new species. 



Male. — Length 12.5 mm.; wing 11.5 mm. 



Female. — Length 14-18 mm.; wing 13-15. 5 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head and palpi dark brown. Antennae indis- 

 tinctly bicolorous, the first three segments yellow, the remaining segments of 

 the flagellum having the basal enlargement dark brown, paler brown apically. 

 Head dark. 



Mesonotal prsescutum grayish with three dark brown stripes, the median 

 one broadest in front, narrowed behind ; lateral stripes narrow, slightly 

 curved ; thoracic interspaces with numerous tiny brown dots ; scutum gray, 

 the lobes with two dark brown marks; scutellum dark; postnotum paler with a 

 delicate brown median vitta. Pleura light-colored with dark brown areas. 

 Halteres pale, the knobs dark brown. Legs dark brown, only the trochanters 

 and the extreme bases of the femora pale yellow. Wings whitish subhyaline 

 with four brown cross-bands that are darkest anteriorly, becoming paler in the 

 caudal cells, the first occupying the base of the wing just beyond the arculus ; 



