1921] Alexander: Japanese Crane-Flies. II 133 
the distal third is darkened; tibiz and tarsi brownish black. Wings 
with a faint grayish yellow tinge, more saturated at the wing-base and in 
cell Sc; stigma oval, dark brown; distinct brownish gray seams along 
the cord; faint gray seams along the cubital and median veins; wing-tip 
broadly darkened, this including the outer ends of cells Rs, R3, Rs, Mi, 
2nd M2, M,and Cu. Venation: Cell M, very broadly sessile. 
First abdominal tergite brown, light gray pruinose, the lateral mar- 
gins broadly yellow; remaining abdominal tergites dark brown, only the 
anterior lateral margins obscure yellow; posterior segments uniformly 
dark brown; sternites brown, pale caudally. Ovipositor with the basal 
shields shiny black, the valves light horn-yellow. 
Habitat: Japan. Holotype, 2, Maruyama, Sapporo, May 
26, 1916 (S. Kuwayama). 
Nephrotoma neopratensis is allied to N. pratensis (L.) of 
Europe. It resembles N. pullata (Alex.) but has the dark 
coloration even more extensive and with the venational details 
distinct; R2;; considerably longer than Rs; cell 1st My larger 
and with m-cu at the fork of M. 
Nephrotoma microcera sp. n. 
Antenne short in both sexes; flagellar segments unicolorous; meso- 
notal praescutum with three shiny reddish stripes; a velvety black 
mark at the ends of the transverse suture; a capillary brown line on the 
scutellum and postnotum; legs pale brownish yellow, tarsi darker; 
veins yellow, costal region more saturated; stigma pale; abdomen 
yellow, tergites trilineate with black; sternites with a capillary black 
median line. 
Male—Length, 13-13.5 mm.; wing, 12-12.5 mm. Female—Length, 
19 mm.; wing, 14.5-15 mm. 
Frontal prolongation of head pale yellow above, brownish laterally; 
palpi brown. Antenne short, in the male, if bent backward, not 
attaining the wing-root; scapal segments pale yellow, flagellum passing 
into dark brown before the tip. Head pale testaceous yellow, shiny; 
occipital mark not distinct. 
Pronotum pale yellow. Mesonotal praescutum yellow with three 
shiny reddish to reddish brown stripes that are sometimes only faintly 
indicated; scutal lobes reddish, the median area yellow; a semilunate 
velvety-black line at the ends of the suture above the wing-root; 
scutellum reddish yellow with a capillary dark brown median line; 
postnotum yellow, with a conspicuous elongate triangular dark brown 
mark, the point directed caudad and not attaining the posterior margin 
of the sclerite. Pleura yellow, indistinctly variegated with reddish. 
Halteres pale brown. Legs with the coxe shiny yellow; trochanters 
yellow; remainder of the legs pale brownish yellow; tarsi darker. Wings 
with a yellowish tinge, more saturated in the costal region, this color 
continued to the wing-tip; extreme wing-apex very narrowly margined 
