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spots on the wing disk, one being in cell istM2, another in the mid- 

 dle of cell M, etc. Venation as in Plate XV, figure 4. 



Abdomen with the first tergite gray; 2-4 bright yellow, remainder 

 brown, including the genitalia; lateral margins of the tergites broad- 

 ly dark brown; sternites dull yellow. The genitalia agree with T. 

 campa, differing as follows: Ninth tergite (see Plate XV, figure 

 13) with the caudal margin more tuberculate, on either side of the 

 elongate-oval median notch is a short, cylindrical lobe, the caudo- 

 lateral angles slender and reflexed; 8th sternite dark brown, only 

 the median lobe being paler; the second pleural appendage, viewed 

 from behind, has the narrowed base very elongate, the blade rela- 

 tively small, the whole appendage being hidden beneath the 9th 

 tergite. 



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

 tional Museum. 



The specific name, piro, is that of a native Indian tribe of 

 eastern Peru. 



Tipula curinao sp. n. (PI. XV, figs. 3, 16). 



Color of the thorax light gray; basal abdominal segments orange 

 yellow, subterminal segments dark brown; antennae short. 



Male. — Length, 12 mm.; wing, 15.5 mm.; fore leg, femur, 8.1 mm.; 

 tibia, 9 mm. 



Palpi very short; frontal prolongation of the head moderate, 

 grayish brown ; antennae short, if bent backward, extending about to 

 the base of the halteres, dark brownish black, the scapal segments 

 alone a little paler, flagellar segments short, cylindrical, the base en- 

 larged (see Plate XV, figure 16); frontal tubercle rather prominent; 

 head dull yellow, more brownish in the middle of the vertex and on 

 the occiput. 



Pronotum dark brown ; mesonotal prxscutum light gray, the lateral 

 margin of the sclerites very dark brown, a very broad light brown 

 median stripe, broadest in front, narrowed behind, partially bisected 

 from behind by a pale line, lateral stripes of the same color ; scutum 

 light gray with two light brown spots on each lobe ; scutellum and 

 postnotum light gray with a brown median vitta and with the sides 

 of the sclerites tinged with dusky. Pleurae brown with a sparse gray 

 bloom. Halteres rather long, brown. 



Legs, coxae and trochanters brown ; femora reddish Ijrown pass- 

 ing into brown at the tip, and with an indistinct yellowish brown 

 annulus before the tip; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. 



Wings light brown, cells C and Sc a little brighter ; a dark brown 

 spot at the origin of Rs and others in the stigmal area; a hyaline 

 spot in cell istM2 and a smaller one in cell M. Venation as in Plate 

 XV, figure 3. 



