258 Mr. F. W. Edwards on 
TPRUorN 
Tipula shiraki, sp. n. 
Head dark slate-grey, a narrow pale margin behind the 
eyes, lower part of front grey-dusted. Front one-sixth of 
the width of the head, not in the least swollen above the 
antennze. Rostrum and palpi dark brown, black-haired like 
the occiput. Antennz barely two-thirds as long as the 
thorax, thirteen-jointed. First joint brownish towards the 
base, more ochreous apically, second joint ochreous. ‘Third 
joint a little more than half as long as the first, light brown 
at each end, darker in the middle. Joints 4-11 all about 
equal in length, light brown, the slight basal enlargement 
blackish brown and bearing three long and one or two short 
hairs; the long hairs are not much longer than the joint. 
Twelfth joint two-thirds as long as the eleventh, thirteenth 
half as long as the twelfth. Thorax: pronotum brownish. 
Preescutum bare, greyish brown, more grey towards the 
margins, with scarcely perceptible indications of four darker 
stripes ; the entire margin narrowly blackish brown, most 
noticeably so in front; a pair of small connected blackish- 
brown spots immediately before the suture in the middle. 
Scutum greyish brown, bare. Scutellum greyish brown, 
with short scanty yellowish hairs, and with two rather large 
and only narrowly separated black spots on its apical half. 
Postnotum brownish grey, with rather dense, short, yellowish 
pubescence. Pleurse ochreous, somewhat darker above; an 
ill-defined blackish-brown stripe passes from the hind corner 
of the preescutum, just under the wings and across the hypo- 
pleura, connecting the dark margin of the prescutum with 
the dark lateral abdominal stripe. Abdomen dark brown 
above, a rather broad but ill-defined blackish lateral stripe, 
indistinct on the last few segments; hind margins of tergites 
narrowly pale ; venter ochreous. Ovipositor normal, shining 
brown, bare. Legs brownish ochreous, tips of femora 
broadly, of tibize and first two tarsal joints narrowly, blackish ; 
last three tarsal joints black. Wéngs light brownish ; costal 
cell and stigma darker brown; a brown spot in cell Cu, below 
the middle of cell M; a brown cloud in cell M, placed on Cu 
a little distance before the fork ; wing-membrane on each 
side of the former of these spots and on the basal side of the 
latter lighter ; a larger light patch covering the cell lst M, 
and extending upwards to the stigma and outwards to the 
base of the cell M,. Veins (except R) quite bare. Rs a 
little longer than R,,, and about twice as long as R,; stigma 
