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densely covered witli Ions liairs, these hairs rather stout except 

 along the caudal margin where they are delicate, fringe-like; just 

 inside this appendage is a c>-lindrical, chitinized arm directed 

 toward the end of the 9th tergite, the apex e\eiiiy rounded; tiie 

 largest of the pleural appendages is a llattencd arm whose a[)ex is 

 notched and crenulated and his into the nolrh of I lie 9th tergite; 

 the penis is very long and siiiidcr, the central vesicle large and 

 rounded. 



Female. — About as in the o^, the flagellar segments sul^an- 

 nulate, the apical three-fifths of each segment being much |)aler 

 than the basal portion; abdominal tergiles 5-7 with a dark brown 

 basal mark, segments 8 to the end brown; valves of the ovipositor 

 short and sharply pointed. In one 9 , the entire tcrgum beyond 

 segments 1-3 is almost entirely dark brown but this may be caused 

 by the gravid condition of the abdomen which is greatly distended 

 with eggs. 



Holotype, cf , Tokyo, Japan; August, 1912 (Vial 42). 



Allotype, 9 , Tokyo, Japan; August, 1912 (Vial K). 



Paratypes, 2 9 , Tokyo, Japan; May 7, 1912 (Vial 34\ 



The specific name is that of an aboriginal Japanese race 

 inhabiting the southern and central portions of the southern half 

 of Nippon, facing the Pacific Ocean. 



Tipula aino, sp. n. 



Head blackish ; pr;escutum and scutum dark coloured ; abdomen 

 yellow with two dorsal brown lines, one on either side of the l)road 

 ground stripe; wings with a slight gray tinge, costal region brown. 



Male. — Length 16 mm.; wing 16.5-18.4 mm. 



Female. — Length 19.4 mm.; wing 20.5 mm. 



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

 antenna' with the three basal segments orange, segments 4 and 5 

 orange at the extreme biise, entire remainder of the antennie black; 

 front, vertex and occiput dark coloured, blackish. 



Mesonotum with the praescutum and most of the scutum 

 uniformly dark brown with narrow darker stripes, one median and 

 one on either side; scutum pale medially, lobes v^ery dark; 

 scutellum and postnotum dull yellow, the latter a little brown on 

 the .sides and in some specimens entirely dark. Pleura dull yellow 



