1919] Alexander: Japanese Crane- Flies 337 



scutum similar, each lobe with a long-oval blackish area; scutcllum and 

 postnotum black, sparsely gray pruinose. Pleura black, gray pruinose. 

 Halteres light yellow, the base of the stem dusky. Legs black. Wings 

 nearly hyaline; stigma dark brown, conspicuous, sending a narrow brown 

 seam along the cord; outer end of cell 1st Mo and vein Cu less distinctly 

 seamed with brown; veins dark brown; the base of the wing more 

 yellowish; wings with the pubescence rather short and sparse, almost 

 lacking in the basal cells, including most of cell M. Venation: Sci 

 ending just beyond r; r on Ro near its base; cell 1st M2 closed; m shorter 

 than the deflection of Ms," basal deflection of Cui slightly before the fork 

 of M; 2nd anal vein slightly sinuous, but cell 1st A broadest at the wing 

 margin. 



Abdomen black, including the male genitalia. Male hypopygium 

 with the pleurites stout; pleural appendage oval, tumid, with long 

 yellowish hairs, on the dorsal face with a chitinized plate, each side 

 of which is heavily toothed, the outer margin with from five to six teeth 

 and the inner margin with about three teeth; gonapophyses flattened, 

 slender, tapering to the subacute tips. Ovipositor with the tergal valves 

 horn color, darker basally. 



Habitat: Japan. 



Holotype, d^, Meguro, Tokio, April 2, 1919 (R. Takahashi). 



Allotopotype, 9 , April 2, 1919. 



Paratopotypes, 2d''s, 1 9, March 25-April 10, 1919. 



Ormosia takahashii sp. n. 



Belongs to the varia group; general coloration black, gray pruinose; 

 wings grayish with the stigma brown; cell 1st J/o open; anal veins con- 

 vergent; male hypopygium with eight chitinized points surrounding 

 the penis-guard. 



Male — Length, 3.8-4.2 mm.; wing, 5.4-5.5 mm. 



Female — Length, 4.6 mm.; wing, 6.2 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae brown, the flagellar 

 segments long-oval, covered with a dense white pubescence, the flagellum 

 with a single very long verticil before midlength of each segment to 

 give the organ a secund appearance. Head dull gray. 



Mesonotum dull brownish gray, the praescutum with indistinct, 

 somewhat darker brown stripes, the interspaces with a row of coarse 

 yellowish hairs; tuberculate pits very close together. Scutum dull gray, 

 the lobes darker. Pleura black, sparsel}^ gray pruinose; a few very long 

 yellow hairs ventrad and caudad of the wing-base. Halteres yellow. 

 Legs wnlh. the coxae dark, sparsely gray pruinose; trochanters dull yellow; 

 femora dark brown, the bases yellow; tibiae and tarsi dark bro\\Ti, 

 clothed with a golden-yellow pubescence that is especially distinct in 

 the female. Wings gray, the stigma darker brown, lying beyond r; 

 veins dark browTi, the base of the wing slightly brighter. Venation: 

 Cell 1st Ml open by the atrophy of the outer deflection of I/3; basal 



