T. D. A. Cockerell.
A Beautiful Crane-fly from Siam.
Psyche 36(2):147-148, 1929.

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A Crane Fly from Siarn
A BEAUTIFUL CRANE-FLY FROM SIAM
I have lately received from Dr. and Mrs. James W. McKean along with many other insects, an extremely hand- some TipztZu collected at Chiengmai, Siam, June 28, 1928. The insect was so remarkable that I looked it up in the literature, and decided that it was allied to T. pedata Wied., but new.
Tipula (Tipulodina) mckeani n. sp.
9. Length 28 mm., wing 18 mm.; hind tibia 20.2, hind tarsus 21.5, hind femur 19, ovipositor 1, antennz about 3, proboscis 1.5 mm.
Antenna1 scape white at base, more than apical half brown ; flagellar joints brown, with somewhat swollen black base, which carries rather long hairs. Facial and frontal regions whitish, with a dusky stripe in middle of front; sides of snout ochreous, posterior part of head dark brown. Thorax dorsally pale brownish grey, a narrow dark brown stripe anteriorly, and the lateral areas broadly pallid, the pleural region whitish ; halteres light brown. Wings clear hyaline, marked with dark brown in the manner of T. pedata Wied, except that there is no clear costoapical spot, though the color in this region is paler, and the cell R5 is clear except at extreme base; there is a small suffused brown spot on the lower margin of cell M, just about the middle. Abdomen dark brown above, beneath pale and flavescent? segments more or less pallid along apical margins. Femora broad, with blackened apex? the anterior pair broadly dull luteous subapically. Anterior and middle tibiz black? with a portion 4.5 mm. long and about 3 mm. from apex, creamy white; their tarsi with about the basal 7 mm. black and the rest creamy white; hind tibiz with an additional white ring,



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148 Psyche [June
about 3.5 mm. long, near the base, and only about 5 mm. of their tarsi black.
Type in the collection of Dr. C. P. Alexander who con- firms the species as new, and cites the following as the closest allied: T. pedata Wied., T. fuscitarsis Edw., T. tinc- tipes Edw., T. rnicrantha Alex., T. scimitar Alex., T. venusta Walk. From all of these it differs in the combination of leg pattern and coloration of body and wings. BOOK NOTICES
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