1919] Alexander: Japanese Crane-Flies 347 



Nesopeza Alexander 



Nesopeza tarsalis sp. n. 



Mesonotal praescutum with the stripes shiny brown, confluent; 

 legs black, the tips of the tarsi white; wings with the stigma dark 

 brown, with a pale area before and beyond it. 



Male — Length about 10 mm.; wing, 12 mm. 



Female — Length about 13 mm.; wing, 12.3 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head and the palpi dark brown. Antennae 

 of the male moderately elongated, if bent backward extending about to 

 the base of the abdomen, the scape yellow, the flagellum dark brown. 

 Head yellowish, passing into dark brown on the posterior portions of 

 the vertex. 



Mesonotal praescutum shiny brown, the stripes confluent, the 

 humeral angles yellowish ; scutal lobes dark ; remainder of the mesonotum 

 paler. Pleura yellowish with a shiny black streak or band extending 

 from the sternum across the mesopleura to the praescutum; a black 

 spot between the middle and hind legs. Halteres dark brow^n, the base 

 of the stem paler. Legs with the coxae and trochanters yellow; femora 

 dark brown, paler at the base; tibiae and tarsi dark brownish black, the 

 tips of the latter pure white, these about equal in width on all the legs 

 or a trifle broader on the hind legs where about the apical half is pale. 

 Wings gray, the stigma dark brown; a whitish subhy aline area before 

 and beyond the stigma; a narrow seam on the basal deflection of i?4+5 

 and the tip of the wing faintly infuscated. Venation : Rs not so elongate 

 as in N. geniculata and the medial forks deeper. 



Abdomen shiny dark brown, the basal stemites and the sides of the 

 second and third tergites more yellowish; hypopygium brownish black. 

 In the female the abdominal tergites are uniformly dark. 



In the living specimens the body is probably with decided greenish 

 tints as traces of these persist in the pinned individuals. 



Habitat: Japan, 

 • Holotype, c/", Saitama, May 29, 1919 (R. Takahashi). 

 Allotopotype, 9 . 



Paratopotype, 9 



Tipula Linnaeus. 



Tipula joana sp. n. 



Antennae black, the scape orange-yellow; praescutum gray with three 

 darker gray stripes, the median stripe split by a capillary black line; 

 wings strongly petiolate, a seam along the cord and the apex brownish 

 black; 2nd Anal cell very narrow. 



Male — Length, 18-20 mm.; wing, 17-18 mm. Fore leg, femur, 

 11 mm.; tibia, 13. G mm.; hind leg, 13 mm.; tibia, 15.8 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head reddish brown, the dorsal surface 

 light gray pruinose; nasus distinct. Palpi pale brown, the last segment, 



