KO. 2103. JAVAXE8E CRANE-FLIES— ALEXANDER. 189 



TIPULA SALAKENSIS, new species. 



Size very small (wing of the male about 8.5 mm.); thorax shiny- 

 reddish yellow. 



Male. — Length, 7.8 mm.; wing, 8.3 mm. Frontal prolongation 

 of the head very short, reddish brown. Antennae elongated, if bent 

 backward nearly attaining the base of the abdomen; basal segments 

 dull yellow, flagellar segments elongated, dark brown. Head with 

 the front reddish yellow, the vertex and occiput dull gray. 



Thorax shiny, reddish yellow, without distinct darker stripes. 

 Pleura lighter yellow. Halteres, stem yellow, knob dark brown. 

 Legs, coxae, and trochanters yellow; femora yellov,- at the base, 

 passing into brown at about midlength; tibiae and tarsi brown. 

 Wings with a slight suffusion of bro^vn, stigma large, distinct, veins 

 dark brown; venation: (see pi. 46, fig. 43), i?2 beyond r distinct; cell 

 1st M2 small; petiole of cell M^ short, about as long as ceU 1st M^; 

 cross-vein m-cu punctif orm or obliterated ; cell 2nd A very narrow. 



Abdomen reddish yellow, segments 6 to 9 dark brownish black. 

 Hypopygium (see pi. 49, fig. 67), the 9th tergite with a conspicuous 

 median lobe that is expanded at its tip as shown iii the figure. 



Habitat. — Java. 



Holotype. — Mount Salak, Java, 1909. (Bryant and Palmer.) 



Type.— Cs^t. No. 19031, U.S.N.M. 



This tiny Tipula is almost as small as T. inconspicua de Meijere,^ 

 which has the thorax dull, with. three dark brown stripes; the wing 

 coloration and the venation of the two species is quite different. 



TIPULA GEDEHICOLA, new species. 



Thoracic dorsum reddish, ^vithout apparent stripes; costal cell of 

 the wings brownish yellow. 



Male. — Length, 13.5 mm.; wing, 14.3 mm. Frontal prolongation 

 of the head short, reddish brown, the palpi yellowish brown. An- 

 tennae rather short, the basal segments dull yellow, the flagellar 

 segments dark brown. Front dull light yellow, vertex and occiput 

 yellowish gray. 



Thoracic dorsum reddish yellow, the postnotum clearer yellow. 

 Pleura reddish yellow. Halteres dark brown, the apex of the knob 

 rather pale. Legs, coxae, and trochanters reddish yellow, the re- 

 mainder of the legs broken. Wings faintly suffused with brown, 

 the costal cell browTiish yellow, stigma bro^vn; venation as in plate 

 46, fig. 44. 



Abdomen reddish brown, segments 6 to 9 blackish. Hypopygium: 

 9th tergite from above deeply split by a median notch, the lobes 

 evenly rounded at their tips, underneath densely provided with tiny 

 black spicules (see pi. 50, fig. 70). 9th pleurite distinct, the pleural 



1 Tijdschr. voor Entom., vol. o4, 1911, pp. 70, 71, pi. 4, fig. 49. 



