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Undescribed Species of Australasian and Oriental Crane-Flies 
(Tipulidae, Diptera). 
BY CHARLES P. ALEXANDER, AMHERST, MASS. 
(Presented by Mr. Bryan at the meeting of July 6, 1922.) 
The species herein described as new are from Southeastern 
China, Papua, and Eastern Australia and were collected by 
Messrs. Kershaw and Muir, and the late Messrs. R. Helms and 
F. W. Terry. They were included in the collections of the 
Bernice P. Bishop Museum and were kindly submitted to me 
for determination by my friend, Dr. James F. [lingworth, to 
whom I am indebted for many kind favors. 
GENUS GYNOPLISTIA WESTWOOD. 
Gynoplistia nigrithorax, sp. n. 
General coloration black; head reddish; antennae with ten branched seg- 
ments; wings with a very heavy brown pattern. 
Female? Wing, 11 mm. 
Rostrum obscure reddish; mouth-parts dark; palpi dark red, paler at 
the incisures. Antennae reddish, the pectinations dark brown; seventeen- 
segmented, the formula being 2+2+8-+5, the longest pectination (on 
flagellar segments five and six) about three times the segment; pectina- 
tion of flagellar segment ten shorter than the segment. Head shiny red. 
Pronotum velvety black. Mesonotum subshiny, black throughout; pseudo- 
sutural foveae very large, oval in outline. Pleura velvety black. Halteres 
black, the extreme base obseure reddish. Legs with the coxae and trochan- 
ters black, the femora abruptly orange with the tips narrowly infuseated, 
broadest on the posterior femora, almost obliterated on the fore femora; 
tibiae orange, the fore tibiae slightly infuscated, the extreme bases and 
the broader apices darkened; tarsi black. Wings with a faint yellowish 
tinge, the base and cell C more strongly flavous; a very heavy brown 
pattern, appearing as two broad crossbands, the first broadest, extending 
from arculus to beyond the level of the origin of Rs, interrupted in cell Rk 
proximad of Rs and not ineluding cell second C except the base; basal 
two-fifths of cell second A flavous; the second band occupies the level of 
the cord, is of nearly equal width throughout and completely traverses the 
wing; wing-apex darkened, restricting the ground-color to a very narrow 
and ill-defined area across the apical cells; veins dark brown, brighter in 
the yellow areas. Venation: Cell M7 longer than its petiole; cell first M? 

Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc., V, No. 2, September, 1923. 
