158 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



Length 12 mm.; wing 10.2 mm.; antennit 5 mm. 

 Fore leg femur 6.7 mm.; tibia 7.4 mm. 

 Middle leg femur 7 mm; tibia 6.4 mm.; tarsus 6.9 mm. 

 Hind leg femur 8.8 mm.; tibia 10.4 mm.; tarsus 6 mm. 

 I supfily a figure of the wing of this beautiful crane-fly, it never 

 having been figured. (See Plate XII, fig. 8).* 



Tribe: Tipulini. 

 Genus: Pachyrhina Macquari. 

 Key to the Japanese Pachyrhince. 



1. Thoracic markings brown or black, distinct 2. 



Thoracic markings very pale, ill-defined flavonota, sp. n. 



2. Mesonotal stripes pale brown ; tip of wing narrowly and regularly 



bordered with dark brown; [scutellum and postnotum mostly 



yellowish; abdominal tergites trivittate] pallnris Coq. 



Mesonotal stripes black; tip of wing hyaline or irregularly 

 suffused with darker 3. 



3. Mesonotal stripes very broad, almost concealing the pale ground 



colour; tip of the wing clouded with darker pnUata, sp. n. 



Mesonotal stripes narrower, so that the yellow ground colour is 

 well defined; tip of the wing clear 4. 



4. Scutellum and postnotum unmarked with 



darker re panda, sp. n. 



Scutellum black; postnotum with a dark median 



vitta virgata Coq. 



Pachyrhina flavonota, 



sp. n. 



Head \cllo\v, shining, witliout a dislinct darker spot; meso- 

 notum orange-yellow with well defined darker stripes. 



Male. — Length 12 mm.; wing 10.6 mm.; antenna? 3.8 mm. 



Female. — Length 14.6 mm.; wing 14 mm. 



Male. — Palpi light brown; frontal prolongation of the head 

 yellow, nasus brown, with a iiift of brown hairs; antennjr, scapal 

 segments yellow, first flagellar segment yellow, on its inner face at 

 three-fourths its length with a wart-like knob, remaining flagellar 

 segments brown, tlie enlarged bases darker brown, inner face of iIt? 



»l'L;t< XII will app.-ar in the lU-Nt isMir. 



