On new or little-knotvn Tipululje. 297 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesli) : — 



Head and body *J5 mm. ; tail 170 ; liiiid foot 58 ; 

 ear 2'A. 



Skull : ineisor-bulla lengtli 34*1 ; condylo-incisive length 

 30 ; width between outer corners ot.anteorbital foramina 1(3*2 ; 

 bimeatal width 23'8 ; length of bulla 14*3; upper molar 

 series 5. 



IJab. Syrian desert. Type from Karyatein, about 34° N., 

 38° E. Other specimens trom the Syrian desert east of the 

 Dead Sea. 



T^pe. Old female. B.M, no. 5. 7. 2. 14. Original num- 

 ber 84. Collected 27th March, 1905, by Douglas Carrutherd. 

 Five specimens examined. 



When writing recently'^ about the Muscat jerboa, I erro- 

 neously referred to the Karyateiii form as ,/. lojtusi, but that 

 .tpecies is decidedly smaller, the iucisor-buUa length being 

 31'7 mm. in a Baglidad 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 Yjjryp\iiiu jacnlus. 



XXXVIII. — Neiu or little-knoion Tipulidfe (Diplei-a). — - 

 IX. Australasian Species. By Charles 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. Phi I pott. 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 macroceiiis, sp. n. 



General coloration pale brown ; male antemise longer than 

 the body ; halteres elongate ; wings whitish subhyaline, 

 veins pale ; petiole of cell /?< very long ; basal pleural appen- 

 dage of the male hypopygium liitid, one arm bearing a brush 

 of tawny hairs before the tip. 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Ilist. (9) viii. p. 440 (1921), 

 Ann. cO Mag. X II Ut. Ser. 0. Vol ix. 20 



