The Philippine journal of science. [Vol. 57, no. 1]

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The Philippine Journal of Science

1936

3. ORIENTAL EASTERN ASIA
de meijerei Edwards. quadrinotata Brunetti (see 1).
jacobsoni Edwards. umbrinoides Alexander.
TIPULA (ACUTIPULA) MELAMPODIA sp. nov. Plate 1, fig. 8; Plate 2, figs. 33, 34.
Allied to graphiptera; mesonotal praescutum dark gray, with
four brown stripes, the anterior ends of the intermediate pair
blending with the ground color; legs black, only the femoral
bases narrowly yellow; pleura gray; wing pattern almost exactly
as in graphiptera; basal abdominal segments obscure yellow, the
outer segments black; male hypopygium with the median lobe of
tergite simple but relatively broad; crest of subterminal lobe or
beak high; eighth sternite with a median crest of yellow setse.
Male.-Length, 16 to 17 millimeters; wing, 21 to 22; antenna,
5.5.
Frontal prolongation of head brownish black, the sides still
darker; nasus elongate, black; palpi black. Antennae with scape
and pedicel brownish yellow; flagellum black, the base of the
first segment narrowly pale. Head dark gray.
Mesonotal prescutum dark gray, with four brown stripes, the
anterior ends of the intermediate pair blending with the ground
color; posterior sclerites of mesonotum gray, the scutal lobes
variegated by brown. Pleura chiefly light gray; dorsopleural
membrane dusky. Halteres brownish black, the apices of knobs
slightly paler. Legs with the coxe gray; trochanters obscure
yellow; femora black, only the extreme bases yellow, even narrower on the posterior legs; tibiae and tarsi black. Wings (Plate
1, fig. 8) with pattern almost exactly as in graphiptera; brown,
patterned with white, including a band across the bases of the
outer medial cells, reaching the wing margin in outer half of cell
R5; white area in cell M not or scarcely confluent with the pale
area before stigma, being more or less broadly interrupted near
outer end of vein M.
Abdomen with basal tergite darkened; second, and parts of
third and fourth segments, chiefly obscure yellow, the succeeding segments passing into black; extreme caudal borders of the
segments pale. Male hypopygium with median lobe of tergite
(Plate 2, fig. 33, 9t) simple but relatively broad at tip, the apex
truncated or very indistinctly emarginate, set with black spicules.
Outer dististyle and inner dististyle shaped as in figures (Plate
2, fig. 34, od, id); setre at crown of outer lobe of inner style
about thirty in number; subterminal lobe or beak with the crest