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tip of Sci; Rs long, in alignment with 7^2+3, this latter shorter than the 

 basal deflection of Cui; r removed from the tip of Ri ; inner ends of cells 

 Rs, R-o, and 1st Mi in oblique alignment; petiole of cell M\ about equal 

 to or shorter than this cell; basal deflection of Cui slightly before mid- 

 length of cell 1st ikfo. Some of the specimens in this series show abnormal 

 types of venation. 



Abdomen dark brownish black, the hypopygium a little reddish. 

 Male hypopygium with the outer appendage almost straight, split 

 into two short points at the apex; the inner appendage deeply bifid, the 

 outer ann flattened, subspatulate, the blade setigerous, the inner arm 

 much smaller and narrowed to the blunt apex; gonapophyses slender, 

 acicular, much twisted. Valves of the ovipositor rusty horn color, 

 very long and slender, the tergal valves almost straight, slightly upcurved 

 at the tips. 



Habitat: Japan. 



Holotype, c?, Meguro, Tokio, April 8, 1919 (R. Takahashi). 



Allotopotype, 9 , April 19, 1919. 



Paratopotypes, 18 cf 9 , April 7-25, 1919. 



Limnophila (Ephelia) subaprilina sp. n. 



Mesonotal praescutum yellowish gray, the lateral brown stripes 

 connected with the intermediate pair by a subtransverse brown line; 

 wings with a heavy brown pattern; abdominal segments bicolorous. 



Male — Length, 5.6 mm.; wing, 7.3-7.4 mm. 



Female — Length, 8.7 mm.; wing, 8.4 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennas with the scapal segments 

 dark brown, the basal flagellar segments pale brown, the apical segments 

 darker. Head brownish gray, more yellowish along the inner margin 

 of the eyes and on the front. 



Mesonotal praescutum yellowish gray with broken dark brown 

 stripes; the inteniiediate stripes are separated from one another by a 

 distance that is nearly equal to the width of one, indistinct in front, 

 not reaching the suture behind; lateral stripes short, their cephalic 

 ends with a transverse bar to form a T-shaped mark that connects 

 more or less completely with the intemiediatc stripes and with the 

 lateral margin of the praescutum; scutum yellowish gray; scutellum 

 and postnotum clearer gray. Pleura yellowish gray with conspicuous 

 dark brown blotches. Halteres yellow, the knobs dark brown. Legs 

 with the cox£E dark brown; trochanters brown, with a black spot on the 

 posterior face; femora dull yellow, the tips broadly dark brown; tibise 

 brownish yellow, the tips narrowly and indistinctly darkened; tarsi 

 dark brown, the first and second segment yellowish brown with only 

 the tips darkened. Wings grayish subhyaline, the costal and subcostal 

 cells more yellowish; a heavy dark brown pattern along the costal 

 margin and large grayish brown blotches on the cross veins, deflections 

 of veins, and along the margin at the ends of the longitudinal veins; 

 there are seven costal blotches, the basal one broken, subocellate; the 



