1919] Alexander: Japanese Crane-Flies 333 



Pronotum brownish gray. Mesonotal praescutum dull gray, clearer 

 anteriorly, with three slightly darker brownish stripes; remainder of the 

 mesonotum clear light gray, only the scutal lobes a little darker. Pleura 

 gray. Halteres yellow. Legs with the coxse grayish, the mesocoxae 

 more yellowish; trochanters yellow; femora dark bro\\Tiish black, the 

 bases narrowly yellow; remainder of the legs dark brownish black. 

 Wings with a strong grayish yellow tinge, somewhat darker distally, the 

 costal and subcostal cells clearer yellow; veins C and Sc yellow, the 

 remaining veins dark brown. Venation: Rs strongly arcuated at its 

 origin, a little longer than cell 1st M2. 



Abdomen dark brownish black. Ovipositor with the tergal valves 

 flattened, the outer faces with numerous erect yellow setae. 



Habitat: Japan. 



Holotype, 9 , Meguro, Tokio, April 23, 1919 (R. Takahashi). 



Paratopotypes, 2 9 , April 24- May 5, 1919. 



One specimen bears the label "in a pine forest." 



Paratropeza Schiner. 

 Paratropeza flavitibia sp. n. 



General coloration metallic blue; legs yellow, the femora clavate, 

 with a broad black subtenninal ring; tibiae with the tips blackened, the 

 posterior tibiae with an apical fringe of erect black hairs; metatarsi 

 yellow, darkened at the tips; wings with three broad dark brown cross- 

 bands. 



Female — Length, 6.3 mm. ; wing, 4.7 mm. Fore leg, femur, 2.9 mm. ; 

 tibia, 2.6 mm. ; hind leg, femur, 4 mm. ; tibia, 3.3. mm. ; tarsus, 2.4 mm. 



Description from an alcoholic specimen. 



Rostrum and palpi pale brown, the terminal segments of the latter 

 about one-half longer than the third segment. Antennae brown, the 

 second scapal segment and the base of the first flagellar segment more 

 yellowish; flagellar segments oval. Head dark metallic blue. 



Thorax metallic blue, with only the dorso-pleural membranes 

 whitish. Halteres dark brown, the knobs whitish. Legs with the 

 coxae metallic blue on their outer faces; trochanters yellowish brown; 

 fore femora dark brown, more yellowish on the basal half, the extreme 

 tip and a very indistinct band at about one-third the length dull yel- 

 lowish; middle and posterior femora yellow with a broad dark brown 

 subterminal ring; tibiae yellow, more brownish basally, the tips broadly 

 dark brownish black, broadest on the hind legs; metatarsi yellow, only 

 the tips brown ; remaining tarsal segments dark brown ; on the posterior 

 metatarsi the brown tips occupy one-third of the total length. The 

 legs are provided with flattened scales; the femora are strongly clubbed, 

 especially the posterior femora; the posterior tibiae with a broad apical 

 fringe of outspreading black hairs. Wings hyaline, with three broad 

 brown cross bands, the first proximad of the origin of the sector, extend- 

 ing from the costal to the posterior margin; the second band occupies 



