439 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [DeC, 



The Neotropical Tipulidae in the Hungarian 

 National Museum (Diptera). — II. 



By Charles P. Alexander, Ithaca, N. Y.* 



(Plate XVL) 



Tribe 2— Antochini. 

 Genus Teucholabis Osten Sacken. 

 1839. Teucholabis Osten Sacken ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. ; p. 223. 

 Teucholabis is the dominant Antochine genus in the tropics 

 of the New World. M^ny species were inchided in the collec- 

 tion and are considered in the following pages. 



Teucholabis flavithorax Wiedemann. 



Two specimens, S 9 , from Callanga, Peru. 



Teucholabis tristis, -sp. n. (PI. XVI, Fig. 1). 



Head and thorax shining black; wings infumed with brown; Rs 

 long, only slightly arcuated. 



Female. — Length, 5.6 mm. ; wing, 6 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown; antennae dark brownish black; front, 

 vertex and occiput dark shining black. 



Thoracic dorsum shining black, the pronotum dull yellowish, this 

 color continued caudad as a narrow stripe along the lateral margin of 

 the praescutum to the wing root; pleurae black. Halteres brown, knob 

 yellow. 



Legs, coxae and trochanters brown, femora yellowish brown, the tip 



*Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory, Cornell Univer- 

 sity. 



