' INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 185 



Habitat. — Japan, 



Holotype, female, Teshio, July 3, 1916 (T. Isshiki). 



Tipula teshionis, new species. 



Male. — Length, about 18 mm. ; wing, 22-23 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of head brown, gray pruinose dor- 

 sally ; palpi dark brown. Antennas short ; scapal segments 

 yellowish testaceous ; flagellar segments subunicolorous, dark 

 brown, the basal enlargement a little darker than the remainder 

 of each segment. Head gray with a capillary brown median 

 line on the vertex ; anterior part of vertex, surrounding the 

 eyes, yellowish. 



Mesonotal praescutum obscure brownish yellow with four 

 brown, gray pruinose stripes ; scutum gray, each lobe with two 

 darker gray marks ; scutellum brownish gray ; postnotum gray, 

 the median portion with a brownish gray inverted triangle 

 that is produced into a point to the caudal margin. Pleura 

 dark brown with a whitish gray longitudinal stripe passing 

 above coxse and beneath halteres; dorso-pleural membranes 

 broadly bufify yellow ; mesosternum largely dark. Halteres 

 yellowish brown. Legs with the coxse gray pruinose; tro- 

 chanters yellow, the apices beneath with a dark brown spot ; 

 femora brownish yellow, the tips broadly brownish black ; 

 remainder of legs reddish brown, passing into black on the 

 tarsi. Wings with gray and brown spots and clouds on a sub- 

 hyaline ground ; stigma and a spot at origin of Rs brown ; 

 a brown cloud along cord and near midlength of vein ist A; 

 subhyaline spots near the ends of cells M-^, 2nd M^, M^, Cu^, 

 two in cell ist A and one in 2nd A; an oblique pale line 

 across cell M ; bases of cells R^, R^, Rr^, M^ and Cii-^ and most 

 of cell 1st Mo pale ; apical two-fifths of cell Rr^ pale. 



Abdominal tergite one brown; segments two to five reddish 

 brown, the lateral margins of the tergites rather narrowly pale, 

 bordered internally by a narrow brown line ; remainder of 

 abdomen dark brown ; sternites gray pruinose. Male hypo- 

 pygium with the ninth tergite transverse, not blackened ; caudal 

 margin with a very small and shallow median notch, the lat- 

 eral angles of which are produced ventrad into conspicuous 



