Number 127 July 10, 1922 



OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



Ann Arbor, Michigan Pubushed by the University 



NEW SPECIES OF CRANE-FLIES FROM SOUTHERN 



INDIANA 



By Charles P. Alexander 



During June, 192 1, J. Speed Rogers and the writer spent 

 two weeks in making a survey of the TipuHd fauna of south- 

 ern Indiana, devoting especial attention to the remarkable 

 fauna of Jefferson County in the vicinity of Hanover. The 

 complete list of crane-flies secured upon this trip will be 

 recorded in another paper. The types of the new species 

 described herein are preserved in the writer's collection, allo- 

 types and paratypes in the collections of the Museum of 

 Zoology of the University of Michigan. 



Erioptera (Acyphona) indianensis, sp.n. 



Mesonotal praescutum obscure yellow with four brown 

 stripes ; pleura silvery gray, delimited by narrow, dark brown, 

 longitudinal stripes ; each femur yellow with a single, sub- 

 terminal, dark brown ring; wings yellow, the brown pattern 

 very restricted ; abdomen dark brown ; hypopygium with the 

 gonapophyses very slender, curved to the acute tips. 



Male. — Length. 3.8 mm. ; wing, 4.8 mm. 



Female. — Length, 4.5 mm. ; wing, 5.3 mm. 



