\''ol. xxiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 404 



The Neotropical Tipulidae in the Hungarian 

 National Museum (Diptera). — I. 



By Charles P. Alexander, Ithaca, X. V.* 



(Plate XIV.) 



Through the kindness of Dr. Coloman Kertesz, I have been 

 able to examine and study the South and Central American 

 crane flies in the collection of the Hungarian National Mu- 

 seum at Budapest. This collection of Tipulidre, although not 

 containing an unusual number of specimens, included a con- 

 siderable number of interesting species which will be discussed 

 in this and succeeding papers. 



Subfamily LIMNOBINAE. 

 Tribe i — Limxobinl 

 Genus Dicranomyia Stephens. 

 1829. Dicranomyia Stephens; Catal. Brit. Ins.; vol. 2, p. 243. 

 Dicranomyia subdola, spi. n. (PI. XIV, Fig. 1). 

 Wings hyaline, veins of the wing margined with brown; tips of llic 

 femora yellow ; abdomen annulated brown and yellow. 

 Female.^— hcnglh, 7.8 mm. ; wing, 10.6 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown ; antennx greyish brown, the flagellar 

 segments much darker, brown ; front, vertex and occiput greyish brown 

 with numerous black hairs. 

 Pronotum brownish yellow, dark brown medially. Mesonotal prasscu- 



*Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory, Cornell Univer- 

 sity. 



