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low, the distal tarsal segments brown ; claws toothed. Wings 

 pale yellowish subhyaline ; veins yellow. Venation : Costa 

 and radius before the sector considerably incrassated, with 

 numerous stout macrotrichise ; Sc rather short, ending a dis- 

 tance before the origin of Rs that is about equal to Rs and 

 the basal deflection of i?4+5 combined ; tip of i?^ atrophied, 

 indicated only by a spur on costa, the macrotrichise of Rt 

 continued onto r for most of its length ; Rs short, almost 

 straight, about one half longer than the basal deflection of 

 J?44.5 ; r long, arcuated, inserted on i?2+3 about its own length 

 before the tip ; cell R^ is very much enlarged, elongate-oval 

 in outline ; vein i?2+3 is bent strongly toward R^^r^ beyond its 

 origin ; r-m very short ; cell ist Mo closed, about as long as 

 vein M-^+o beyond it ; basal deflection of Cu-^ just beyond the 

 fork of M ; anal angle rather prominent. Veins M, Cii, ist 

 A and 2nd A proximad of the cord destitute of macrotrichise 

 or nearly so. 



Abdomen pale yellow, the caudal margins of the segments 

 narrowly brown. Male hypopygium with the two append- 

 ages nearly as long as the pleurites, the ventral pleural ap- 

 pendage fleshy, cylindrical, the tip produced slightly cephalad 

 or proximad; dorsal pleural appendage curved slightly near 

 the tip. 



/fa&jVai.^Samoa. 



Holotype, J*, Apia, June-July, 1913 (R. W. Doane). 



This curious fly is not a typical member of the genus Rhipidia 

 but from the unique structure of the antennse it is placed in this 

 group, at least provisionally. It is named in honor of the memory 

 of Robert Louis Stevenson, " Tusitala," who spent the last few 

 years of his life in Samoa and is buried near the type-locality. 

 R. deheauforti (Meijere) is another member of this group. 



Doaneomyia gen. n. 



Related to Dicranomyia but distinguished from this genus 

 as well as all others in the family Tipulidse by the presence 

 of a single anal vein. Antennae 14-segmented. Tibiae with- 

 out spurs; claws long, simple, almost straight. Vein Sc is 

 short, with Sc2 not far removed from the tip of Sc■^ ; Rs and 

 the basal deflection of R^^^r, in alignment and subequal ; cell 

 1st Mo open by the atrophy of the outer deflection of M^ ; 

 only the ist Anal vein preserved ; no vestige of the atrophied 

 vein immediately behind vein Cu ; a long basal wing-petiole. 

 Genotype. — Doaneomyia tahitiensis sp. n. (Australasian 

 Region). ' 



