1920] Alexander: Crane Flies From Formosa 255 



Six males and females, Funkiko, FormOvSa, April 21-27, 1917 

 (T. Shiraki) No. 1342. Only the female sex has been described. 

 Edwards is entirely right in stating that the tibial spurs in this 

 and the following species are lacking. This is a very strange 

 condition, though entirely duplicated in the genus Polymera and 

 in Lecteria (if we consider Psaronius Enderlein as being a spurred 

 form of this genus). The new subgeneric name, Atarbodes, 

 may be applied to the group of species with spurless tibiae, the 

 type of the subgenus being the present form. 



Allotype, cf • Very similar to the female. Antennae short, with 

 long, conspicuous verticils, longest on the basal segments of the flagellum. 

 Abdomen with a barely indicated subterminal brown ring. Hypopygium 

 with the outer pleural appendage densely set with appressed blackened 

 spines; inner appendage a little longer, flattened, pale, at the apex with 

 a few hyaline setae. 



Male. — Length 4.5-4.8 mm.; wing, 5.S-0 mm. 



Allotype, cf , Funkiko, Formosa, April 27, 1917. 



Atarba fuscicornis Edwards. 



1916. Atarba fuscicornis Edwards, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 18, p. 250. 



One female, Funkiko, Formosa, April 21, 1917 (T. Shiraki) 

 No. 1349. 



Erioptera Meigen. 

 Erioptera alboguttata Edwards. 



1916. Erioptera {Erioptera) alboguttata Edwards; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 

 vol. 18, p. 252, pi. 12, fig. 4. 



One male from Funkiko, Formosa, April 29, 1917 (T. 

 Shiraki) No. 1356. As pointed out by its describer, this 

 interesting crane-fly bears a striking resemblance to species 

 of the subgenus Mesocyphona, especially E. (M.) dulcis and 

 E. {M.) needhami, but is a true member of Erioptera in the 

 restricted sense. 



Erioptera (Empeda) nigroapicalis sp. n. 



Size moderately large (wing over 4 mm.) ; head gray; femora yellow, 

 the tips broadly and conspicuously brownish black; wings subhyaline, 

 veins brown; male hypopygium with the outer pleural appendage 

 heavily chitinized. blackened. 



Male. — Length 3.2 mm.; wing, 4.5 mm. 



Female. — Length 4 mm.; wing, 4.7 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi reddish. Antennae with the first scapal segment 

 grayish pruinose; second segment enlarged, black; first flagellar segment 



