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Therax badly crushed, dark brown, praescutal stripes not apparent 
in the unique type. Pleura dark brown. Halteres pale yellow, the 
base of the knobs a little darkened. Legs with the femora brownish 
yellow, the tips dark brown; tibiz and tarsi dark brown. Wings with 
a brownish yellow tinge, cells C and Sc more yellowish; stigma oval, 
dark brown; wing-tip in cells Re and R; indistinctly darkened; branches 
of Cu, the cord and most of the veins beyond the cord indistinctly 
seamed with brown; an obliterative area before and beyond the stigma; 
another obliterative area crossing cell 1st Mz from the end of cell M 
into the base of cell M4; veins dark brown, more yellowish in the costal 
region. Venation: Rs short, arcuated; Rs» straight, the distal section 
‘in alignment with the basal section; cell 1st Me irregularly pentagonal; 
m punctiform or nearly so; petiole of cell M; longer than cell 1st Mo; 
m-cu obliterated by the. long fusion of Cu; and M3y4. 
_ Abdominal tergites obscure yellow, conspicuously margined laterally 
and caudally with dark brown; sternites obscure yellow, the margins 
indistinctly darker. 
Habitat: Japan. Holotype, ¢@, Nikko, Tochigi-Ken, July 
99-1920 (K: Tanaka). 
Tipula kuwayamai sp. n. 
Allied to T. serricauda Alex.; antennz of male moderately elongate, 
the intermediate flagellar segments bicolored; mesonotal praescutum 
with four gray stripes that are narrowly margined with dark brown; 
wings whitish subhyaline, variegated with light and dark brown; 
abdomen reddish brown, the terminal segments dark brown; male 
hypopygium with the ninth tergite a chitinized saucer; female ovipositor 
with the tergal valves serrated. 
Male—Length, 16 mm.; wing, 18-20 mm. Female—Length, 
29 mm.; wing, 25 mm. 
Frontal prolongation of the head grayish pruinose; palpi dark brown. 
Antenne of male moderately elongate, if bent backward extending 
about opposite or slightly beyond the wing-root; first flagellar segment 
yellowish orange, the base pruinose; second and third segments yellowish 
orange; fourth and fifth segments bicolorous, the basal enlargement 
black, the remainder of each segment brownish yellow; the succeeding 
segments gradually darken into uniform brown; flagellar segments 
rather deeply incised beneath. Head gray with a capillary dark brown 
median line; vertical tubercle with an impressed line. 
Mesonotal praescutum clear gray, the interspaces behind more 
buff-brown; four clear gray praescutal stripes, the intermediate pair 
more brownish except at their anterior ends, these stripes widely 
separated behind by a median stripe of the ground color; praescutal 
stripes narrowly margined with dark brown; scutum clear gray, each 
lobe with two brown circles, the anterior one with a clear gray center, 
the posterior one with a darker gray center; scutellum and postnotum 
gray, the latter with a capillary dark brown line. Pleura dark gray; 
dorso-pleural membrane obscure yellow. Halteres testaceous, the base 
