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Habitat. — Java. 



Holotype. — Pelaboeau Ratoe, Java, October 16, 1909. (Bryant 

 and Palm or). 



Type,— Cat. No. 19029, U. S. N. M. 



Closest to rinereifro7is de Meijere which has the tip of vein B^ atro- 

 phieil, the petiole of cell M^ long, etc. The species may be separated 

 by the key given later on. 



TIPULA TJIBODENSIS, new species. 



Color dull yellowish brown without distinct stripes; wings subhy- 

 aliae, stigma and costal region dark bro^vn ; abdomen reddish yellow 

 excepting segments 6 to 8 which are black. 



Male. — Length, 12 mm.; wing, 14.6-15 mm. 



Female. — Length, 14.6 mm.; wing, 12.4 mm. Frontal prolongation 

 of the head short and stout, yellowish, palpi pale brown. Antennae 

 short, if extended backward scarcely attaining the wing-root, the 

 first three segments dull j^ellow, the remainmg segments of the flagel- 

 Imn with the basal third black, remainder yellow, on the apical seg- 

 ments passing into brown. Head dark brown, the front and occiput 

 brighter. 



Thoracic dorsum dull yellowish brown, the stripes very indis- 

 tmct. Pleura dull yellow. Halteres brown. Legs, coxae and troch- 

 anters dull yellow, remainder of the legs broken. Wings subhyaline 

 or famtly brownish; costal cell and stigma dark brown, tip of the 

 wing suffused with bro^vn, most distinct on the outer half of cell R^; 

 venation as in plate 46, fig. 42. 



Abdominal segments 1 to 5 dull bro"«aiish yellow, the basal sclerites 

 somewhat brighter; 6 to 8 black; 9 reddish yellow. Hypopygium: 

 9th tergite deeply three notched (see pi. 50, fig. 68) the median notch 

 deepest and broadest, its margin chitinized and receiving the tip of 

 the powerful umer pleural appendage; 9th sternite powerful (see pi. 

 50, fig. 69) the pleurite completely severed by the pleural suture; 

 pleural appendages complex, shaped as in the figure, the inner lobes 

 compressed, chitinized, a two-pronged black hook on the outside. A 

 group of long conspicuous hairs at the dorso-cephalic angle of the 

 pleurite. 



Habitat. — Java. 



Holotype. — Male, Tjibodas, Moimt Gede, Java, altitude 4,500 feet 

 (Bryant and Pahner). 



Allotype. — Female, topotypic. 



Paratype. — ^Male, topotypic. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19030,' U. S. N. M. 



This species suggests cinej^eifrons de Meijere hi the color of the 

 thorax but the dark costa will separate this species off from related 

 forms including ^(ii'i>05/a, new species, which has the costa yellowish. 



