COLLECTED IX DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 393 



The species was described by de Meijere from two males from Alkmaar, New 

 Guinea, which had the wings " whitish brown-yellow " and the legs brown. The 

 specimen before me is a good deal darker, the wings being brownish-orange and the 

 legs black. There can, however, be little question of its identity. 



Subfamily Tipulinse. 



Genus Tipula. 

 Tipula Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 585 (1758). 



6. Tipula de-meijerei, sp. n. (PL XXXVIII. fig. 1.) 



1 ?. Upper Utakwa Valley, 5000-10,000 ft., Feb.-March 1913. [Type of the 

 species.) 



Head dark brown on the vertex, orange-brown on the front ; two rounded tubercles 

 just above the base of the antennsB ; proboscis brownish, darker apically, about as 

 long as the head. Palpi black. Antennse thirteen-jointed, first joint dark brown, 

 hairy ; second joint yellowish ; third joint yellowish, dark brown in the middle ; 

 joints 4-12 black basally and yellow apically, the black basal portion slightly enlarged 

 and bearing several bristles ; last joint roundish, entirely black. Thorax: mesouotum 

 light brownish, with four faintly indicated slightly darker stripes, and with a dark 

 brown margin ; postnotum and postalar calli deep blackish-brown ; pleurae rather 

 light brown. Abdomen rather dark brown, with a slight reddish tinge ; second 

 segment with a narrow blackish lateral line ; ovipositor light brown, longer than the 

 seventh and eighth segments taken together. Legs dark brown, the tarsi somewhat 

 darker. Wings brownish-tinged, the costal cell more yellowish, stigma dark brown ; 

 a subquadrangular brown spot lying between the veins Cu and An about halfway 

 along the lower basal cell, the wing-membrane on each side of this spot clearer ; 

 brown clouds over Cua and the ascending portion of Cui and between the veins on 

 the apical half of the lower margin of the wing; a pale spot just above the vein Cu 

 near the apex of the lower basal cell; pale spots at the bases of cells M^ and Mj. 

 Halteres black. 



Length of body 25 mm., of wing 27 mm. 



This well-marked species bears some resemblance to the European T. fidvipenms 

 Deg., and has evidently very much in common with a specimen described (but not 

 named) by de Meijere from Java (Tijd. v. Ent. liv. 1911, p. 71). Apparently, however, 

 the Javan specimen must represent another species of the same group. 



