THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATUEAL HISTOEY. 



[NINTH SICRIES.] 

 No. 62. FEBRUARY 1923. 



XVII. — N^ew or little-known Tipulidse (Diptera). — XIV. Aus- 

 tralasian Species. By Charles P. Alexander, Ph.D., 

 F.E.S., Amherst, Massachusetts, U^S.A. 



The crane-flies described in the present instalment are all 

 from New Zealand, and were collected by Messrs. Campbell, 

 Gourlay, Harris, Howes, Lindsay, Tapley, and Watt, to 

 whom my sincere thanks are extended for the privilege of 

 studying their extensive collections of Tipulidas. The types 

 are preserved iu the writer's collection. 



Dicranomyia incesta, sp. n. 



General coloration dark brown ; wings relatively narrow, 

 brown, the stigma darker brown ; conspicuous pale areas 

 before and beyond the stigma; male hypopygium with a 

 group of about ten spines on the mid-apical line of the 

 tergite. 



Male. — Length about 6*5 mm.; wing 8*7 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennas dark brown 

 throughout; flagellar segments oval. Head greyish brown. 



Pronotum, mesonotal pra^scutum, and scutal lobes 

 uniformly dark brown, only the humeral region of the 

 prrescutum a very little paler; median area of scutum and 

 the scutellum pale brown; postnotum dark brown. Pleura 

 dark brown, with a sparse, appressed, microscopic pubescence. 



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