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the second at the origin of the sector, the third along the cord and the last 

 at the wing-tip; cells C and Sc dark brown. Venation: tip of A', atrophied. 

 Abdominal tergites in the female with the basal segment dark brown, the 

 remaining tergites pale cream yellow, each segment with a triangular brown 

 median mark with the point directed backward ; on segments 3 to 8 the disk 

 of the tergites gradually darkens until on the terminal segments only the 

 caudal and lateral margins remain pale; sternites pale with a triton-shaped 

 brown mark on each segment, the points directed backward ; on segments 6 

 to 8 darker colored. In the male the abdomen is paler on the three basal seg- 

 ments, the rest of the organ dark brown, the segments narrowly margined with 

 paler. Hypopygium with the ninth tergite deeply notched medially, the ad- 

 jacent lobes obtusely rounded ; ninth pleurite complete, extensive. 



Habitat : Japan. 



Holotype, J*, Kioto, Japan, Jnly, 1916 (Nohira). 



Allotopotype, 5- 



Paratopotypes, 2 22- 



Tipula strix new species. 



Female. — Length 17 mm.; wing 15.4 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head dark brown ; palpi similar, the tip of 

 the second segment and the third and fourth segments paler. Antennas bicol- 

 orous ; scape dark brown ; flagellar segments yellow, the base of each segment 

 darkened, less distinctly on the basal segments. Head dark brown. 



Head very deep reddish or liver-colored, darker on the prsescutal inter- 

 spaces. Halteres pale, the bases of the knobs a little darker. Legs with the 

 coxae deep liver-red, concolorous with the pleura ; trochanters light yellow ; 

 femora bright yellow, tipped with black ; on the fore legs the dark tips in- 

 clude the outer half; on the middle and hind legs only the broad tip is 

 darkened ; tibiae black, the bases yellowish ; tarsi black. Wings whitish sub- 

 hyaline, sparsely marked with brown; base of the wings light yellow; veins 

 dark brown, ist anal slender, yellowish ; cells C and Sc dark brown ; stigma 

 dark brown ; wing-apex and the outer longitudinal veins narrowly seamed with 

 dark brown ; dark clouds at the origin of the sector and along the cord and 

 the outer two-thirds of cell R^ ; somewhat paler clouds in the middle of cells 

 i?3 and 7?5, the base and middle of cells R, M and Cu; tip of cell M clouded; 

 gray clouds in the anal cells. Venation: vein R.. persistent; cell ist M-, small, 

 pentagonal ; cell il/j deeper than its petiole. 



Abdomen shiny liver-brown, the genital segment and the ovipositor more 

 yellowish; ovipositor with the tergal valves acicular, straight, parallel; sternal 

 valves shorter but higher. 



Habitat : Japan. 



Holotopye. 5- Tokuhara, Province Shinano, Japan, August 31, 

 1915 (Nohira). 



