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along its ventral face a row of spine-like teeth, the tip flattened and 
provided with a few appressed teeth. The dorsal lobe at its dorso-apical 
angle provided with the usual curved hook-like appendage, the lobe 
densely clothed with long, pale hairs; the tip of the lobe ventrad of 
the hook-like appendage is produced into a short, sharp spine. 
Holotype, male, Concepcion, Chile (P. Herbst, coll.), 1904, 
in the Hungarian National Museum. 
The ? Erioptera uniformis Blanchard‘, ? longipes Philippi’ 
and ? pallida Philippi® may possibly be’ Molophili. Philippi’s 
description would seem to indicate rather unusual insects, 
longipes being described as having an elongate rostrum. In 
our present state of knowledge of Chilian Tipulidae, I cannot 
determine any of the forms before me as Blanchard’s or 
Philippi’s species. 
Molophilus taurus sp. n. (Pl. IX, fig. 1.) 
Color brown; male antennz short, ventral appendage of the male 
hypopygium deeply bifid. 
Male.—Length, about 4.6 mm.; wing, 6.2 mm. Palpi dark brown; 
antenne short, the flagellar segments oval to elongate-oval, brown; 
head blackish gray. 
Pronotum narrow, the scutum yellow, with a brown tinge, a bunch 
of long black hairs at each outer angle; scutellum light yellow. Meso- 
notal prescutum light grayish brown; scutum and scutellum light 
brown; postnotum very dark grayish brown. Pleure brownish gray, 
more yellowish around the wing-root. Halteres pale yellowish brown. 
Legs brown. Wings subhyaline, the veins distinct, brown. Vena- 
tion: R4 plus 5 rather long, longer than the cross-vein 7. ‘ 
Abdomen dark brown, densely clothed with long pale hairs. Hypo- 
pygium with the ventral appendage (see Plate IX, figure 1) very deeply 
bifid, the inner branch short bearing on its inner face a number of 
blunt teeth, including a bunch of about three near the middle, the tip 
sharp; outer branch long, slender, directed caudad and entad, crossing 
its mate of the opposite side like a rapier, long, cylindrical, tapering 
to the sharp point. Dorsal lobe and its appendages about as in flavi- 
dus. 
Holotype, male, Rancagua, Chile. December, 1904 (P.: 
Herbst, coll.), in the Hungarian National Museum. 
4 Blanchard, Gay, in Hist. fis. y polit. de Chile; Zool., vol. 7, p. 343 
(1852). 
5 Philippi, Verb. Zool-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 15, p. 616 (1865). 
8 Philippi, J. c. 
