On new or little-known Tipulide. 297 
Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) :— 
Head and body 95 mm.; tail 170; hind foot 58; 
ear 23. 
Skull: incisor-bulla length 34:1; condylo-incisive length 
30; width between outer corners of auteorbital foramina 16°2 ; 
bimeatal width 23°8; length of bulla 14°3; upper molar 
series 5. 
Hab. Syrian desert. Type from Karyatein, about 34° N., 
38° E. Other specimens from the Syrian desert east of the 
Dead Sea. 
Type. Old female. B.M. no,'5. 7, 2.14. Original num- 
ber 84. Collected 27th March, 1905, by Douglas Carruthers. 
Five specimens examined, 
When writing recently * about the Muscat jerboa, I erro- 
neously referred to the Karyatein form as J. loftwsi, but that 
species is decidedly smaller, the incisor-bulla length being 
3L°7 mm. in a Baghdad example and 31°5 mm. in the type. 
The drabby instead of buffy colour of this jerboa would 
seem to distinguish it sufficiently from the Heyptian jaculus. 
XXXVIII.—New or little-known Tipulidee (Dipiera).-— 
IX. Australasian Species. By Cuaries P. ALEXANDER, 
Ph.D., F.E.S., Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A. 
THE present instalment considers only species from New 
Zealand, supplementary to Mr. Edwards’s monographic 
review and to papers by the writer now in press. The 
material described herein was received almost entirely from 
Dr. Campbell, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Watt, one species 
being from Dr. Tillyard and Mr. Philpott. I am deeply 
indebted to all of the above gentlemen for their kind interest 
in making known the remarkable crane-fly fauna of New 
Zealand. Except where stated to the contrary, the types 
are preserved in the writer’s collection. 
Molophilus macrocerus, sp. n. 
General coloration pale brown; male antenne longer than 
the body; halteres elongate; wings whitish subhyaline, 
veins pale; petiole of cell R, very long; basal pleural appen- 
dage of the male hypopygium bifid, one arm bearing a brush 
-of tawny hairs before the tip. 
** Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) viii. p. 440 (1921). 
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