NO. 2103. JAVANESE CRANE-FLIES—ALEXANDER. 171 



Genus ANTOCHA Osten Sacken. 



Antocha Osten Sacken, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Plxila., 1859, p. 219. 

 ANTOCHA JAVANENSIS, aew species. 



Thorax grayish brown without distinct darker markings; wings 

 whitish, stigma distinct; basal deflection of Cui before the fork of J/. 



Female. — Length, 4.2 mm.; wing, 4.8 mm. Rostrum and palpi 

 dark brown. Antennae brown. Head grayish brown. 



Thoracic dorsum light grayish brown without distinct markings. 

 Pleura grayish. Halteres yellow. Legs, coxae, and trochanters dull 

 yellow; femora, tibiae, and tarsi light brown. Wings whitish, the 

 stigma distinct, pale brown; veins brown. Venation: (see pi. 43, 

 fig. 18), cross- vein r indistinct, basal deflection of Cui before the fork 

 of M. 



Abdomen light brown. 



Hahitat.—Ja.ysi. 



Holotype. — Pelaboean Ratoe, Java; October 19, 1909 (Bryant and 

 Palmer) . 



Type.— Cat. No. 19019, U.S.N.M. 



This species agrees closest with Antocha indica Brunetti,^ but the 

 color of the thorax is quite different, the wings whitish with the stigma 

 distinct, etc. 



Genus ATARBA Osten Sacken. 

 Atarha Osten Sacken, Mon. Dipt. N. Amer., pt. 4, 1869, 127. 

 ATARBA JAVANICA, new species. 



Color of the body and wings yellowish; subcosta extending beyond 

 the middle of the radial sector. 



Female. — Length, 6.8 mm.; wing, 7.2 mm. Rostrum, moderate in 

 length, shorter than the head, dull yellow; the palpi brown. An- 

 tennae with the basal segments brownish yellow; the flagellum 

 broken. Head, yellowish brown. 



Thoracic dorsum dull yellow without weU-defined darker mark- 

 ings. Pleura dull brownish yellow with an indistinct brown stripe; 

 a slight grayish pruinosity above the middle coxae. Halteres dull 

 yellow. Legs, coxae, and trochanters dull yellow; femora yellow, 

 very narrowly tipped with dark brown; base of the tibiae very nar- 

 rowly brown, remainder of the tibiae and tarsi dull yellow; the api- 

 cal tarsal segments brown. Wings light yellow, the veins yellow. 

 Venation: (see pi. 43, fig. 19), 8c long, ending beyond the middle of 

 the radial sector; i?2+3 rather short and oblique, the space on the wing 

 margin between U^ and i?2+3 very much shorter than that between 

 i?2+3 and i?4+5; basal deflection of Cu^ under the basal thhd of cell 

 1st M^. 



1 Fauna of British India, Diptera Nematocera, 1912, pp. 426, 427, pi. 8, fig. 12. 



