A'ol. XXV] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 351 



The Neotropical Tipulidae in the Hungarian 



National Museum ^ Diptera). — IV. 



By Chas. p. Alexander, Ithaca, New York. 



(Plate XV.) 

 Sub-family TIPULIXAE, Tribe Tipulini. 

 Genus Macromastix Osten Sacken. 

 Macromastix pygmaea sp. n. (PI. XV, fig. 1). 



Size small (wing of S about 10.5 mm.); wings with i?2 obliterat- 

 ed ; halteres ver>' long and slender. 



}fale. — Length 8 mm. ; wing. 10.3 mm. ; antennae about 9.5-10 mm. 



Palpi dark brown ; frontal prolongation of the head brown, an- 

 tennae a little longer than the body, the flagellar segments l>eing great- 

 ly elongated, antennae densely clothed with rather short delicate 

 hairs; fore part of the vertex produced into a prominent conical 

 tubercle; front and vertex gray, occiput brownish. 



Mesonotal praescutum light brown somewhat darker in front and 

 on the sides, but without apparent stripes ; scutum with the lobes 

 brown ; scutellum and postnotum light brownish yellow. Pleurae, 

 mesopleurae darker brown than the yellowish metapleurae. Halteres 

 very long and slender, yellowish at base, the remainder brown. 



Legs, coxae and trochanters dull yellow; femora dull jellow bas- 

 all\' soon passing into brown ; tibiae and tarsi brown. 



Wings subhyaline. cells C and Sc more yellowish ; stigma scarcely 

 indicated ; veins brown. Venation, Rs very short, R2 obliterated. 

 (See Plate XV, figure i). 



Abdomen with the two basal segments light brown ; remainder of 

 abdomen dark brown ; hypopygium simple. 



Holotype. — Male, Callanga, Peru, in the Hungarian Na- 

 tional Museum. 



The reference of this species to Macromastix is somewhat 

 provisional. It agrees with M. chilensis Philippi' in its antennae 

 and simple hypopygium, but the obliteration of vein R2 is a 

 character suggesting certain of the Dolichof^ecini. I do not 

 care to erect a new genus upon a single specimen. As I have 

 shown before,* Enderlein's M. appendens (Zool. Jahrb., Vol. 

 32, pt. I, pp. 14, 15) is not a Macromastix at all, but a true 

 Tipula. 



^Philippi. Verh. Zool. bot GeselL Wien. VoL 15. p. 617 (1865). 

 * Alexander. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am., Vol. 5. No. 4, p. 355 (1912). 



