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along its ventral face a row of spine-like teeth, the tip flattened and 

 provided \vit*i a few appressed teeth. The dorsal lobe at its dorso-apical 

 angle provided with the usual curved hook-like appendage, the lobe 

 densely clothed with long, pale hairs; the tip of the lobe ventrad of 

 the hook-like appendage is produced into a short, sharp spine. 



Holotype, male, Concepcion, Chile (P. Herbst, coll.), 1904, 

 in the Hungarian National Mtiseum. 



The ? Erioptcra uniformis Blanchard*, ? longipes Philippi= 

 and ? pallida Philippi* may possibly be Molophili. Philippi's 

 description would seem to indicate rather unusual insects, 

 longipes being described as having an elongate rostrum. In 

 our present state of knowledge of Chilian Tipulidae, I cannot 

 determine any of the forms before me as Blanchard's or 

 Philippi's species. 



Molophilus taurus sp. n. (PI. IX, fig. ].") 



Color brown ; male antennae short, ventral appendage of the male 

 hypopygium deeply bifid. 



Male. — Length, about 4.6 mm.; wing, 6.2 mm. Palpi dark brown; 

 antennae short, the flagellar segments oval to elongate-oval, brown; 

 head blackish gray. 



Pronotum narrow, the scutum yellow, with a brown tinge, a bimch 

 of long black hairs at each outer angle ; scutellum light yellow. Meso- 

 notal praescutum light grayish brown ; scutum and scutellum light 

 brown ; postnotum very dark grayish brown. Pleurae brownish gray, 

 more yellowish around the wing-root. Haltercs pale yellowish brown. 



Legs brown. Wings subhyaline, the veins distinct, brown. Vena- 

 tion: i?4 plus 5 rather long, longer than the cross-vein r. 



Abdomen dark brown, densely clothed with long pale hairs. Hypo- 

 pygium with the ventral appendage (see Plate IX, figure l) very deeply 

 bifid, the inner branch short bearing on its inner face a number of 

 blunt teeth, including a bunch of about three near the middle, the tip 

 sharp ; outer branch long, slender, directed caudad and cntad, crossing 

 its mate of the opposite side like a rapier, long, cylindrical, tapering 

 to the sharp point. Dorsal lobe and its appendages about as in Aavi- 

 dus. 



Holotype, male, Rancagua, Chile. December, 1904 (P. 

 Herbst, coll.), in the Hungarian National Museum. 



* Blanchard, Gay, in Hist. fis. y polit. de Chile; Zool., vol. 7, p. 343 

 (1852). 



5 Philippi, Verb. Zool-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 15, p. 6l6 (1865). 



• Philippi, /. c. 



