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Oropeza Needham. 
Oropeza candidipes sp. n. 
Antenne pale basally, intermediate segments bicolorous, terminal 
segments dark; general coloration buffy gray, praescutum with three 
darker gray stripes; pleura testaceous gray, striped longitudinally with 
dark gray; legs yellow, tibiae and tarsi snowy-white; wings yellowish; 
stigma conspicuous, dark brown; abdominal sternites testaceous yellow, 
each segment with a small, triangular median dark brown spot at the 
caudal margin. 
Female—Length, 14—-14.5 mm.; wing, 12-14 mm. 
Frontal prolongation of head short, pale above, slightly darker 
laterally palpi with the basal two segments pale, the terminal segments 
dark brown. Antenne very pale, almost white, terminal segments: 
darker, the intermediate segments bicolorous, the base of each segment 
being darkened. Head gray, darker gray behind. 
Mesonotal praescutum buffy gray, with three broad darker gray: 
stripes, the intermediate stripe narrowly split by a pale line; scutal 
lobes dark, pale medially ; scutellum pale testaceous, dark brown basally; 
postnotum buffy gray. Pleura testaceous gray, longitudinally striped 
with darker gray along the ventral margin of the mesepisternum; 
mesosternum dark gray; dorso-pleural membrane almost whitish. 
Halteres pale, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxze testaceous, 
the fore coxe darker; trochanters whitish; femora yellow; remainder of 
legs snowy-white. Wings with a strong yellowish tinge; stigma dark 
brown; veins dark brown, those in the costal region more yellowish. 
Venation: Rs pale, without macrotrichiz, one-half longer than the 
deflection of R4a,;; cell 1st Mz long and narrow; basal deflection of 
My,,2 longer than m; petiole of cell M, about two-thirds as long as cell 
1st Mo. 
Abdominal tergites dark brown, about the basal third or less of each 
segment paler; sternites one to six pale testaceous yellow, the posterior 
median area of each segment with a small dark brown triangle. Ovi- 
positor with the slender tergal valves dark brown; sternal valves 
flattened, pale. 
Habitat: Japan. Holotype, ¢, Tamagawa, Saitama-Ken, 
August 30, 1920 (H. Machida). Paratype, 9, Ikaho, Gumma- 
Ken, July 7, 1920 (K. Tanaka). 
Tipula Linnaeus. 
Tipula shomio sp. n. 
Head dark gray; antennz of male moderately elongate, indistinctly 
bicolorous; thorax gray, the praescutal stripes and scutal lobes shiny 
black; fore femora black, except the basal fourth, hind femora yellow 
with the apical fourth black; wings pale yellowish, the base and sub- 
costal cell brighter yellow; disk variegated with brown and gray; 
abdomen yellow, with a subterminal brownish black ring; male 
hypopygium large, the ninth tergite produced into a hood-like median 
lobe; ninth pleurite complete. 
