THE DIPTERA OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW GUINEA. IV. FAMILY TIPULIDAE. PART II.* By Charles P. Alexander, Massachusetts State College, Amherst, Mass., U.S.A. (Communicated by Frank H. Taylor, F.R.E.S., F.Z.8.) (Seventeen Text-figures.) [Read 26th August, 1936.] The materials included in this instalment are chiefly from the mountains of north-eastern New Guinea, the majority from Edie Creek, where they were collected by Mr. Frank H. Taylor. Additional materials were sent to me by Mr. Taylor and Professor Harvey Sutton, collected by Mr. Norman Ferguson and Dr. E. A. Holland, and forming a valuable addition to our knowledge of the Tipulidae of this little-known area. All types and uniques are preserved in the collection of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, the University of Sydney. As before, I express my very sincere thanks to the Director of the School of Public Health, Professor Harvey Sutton, and to my very good friend and co-worker, Mr. Frank H. Taylor, for this continued co-operation in studying the Tipulidae of the Territory of New Guinea. The rich collections studied herewith add no fewer than nine generic and subgeneric groups to those hitherto known from the Territory, of which Dolichopeza, s.s., Helms, s.s., and Eurhamphidia, are included here. A number of the large and conspicuous autochthonous Australian genera of the subfamily Tipulinae that might reasonably be expected to extend their range into New Guinea remain undetected and, in the light of the collecting done by Mr. Taylor, it may be expected that most of these, at least, do not occur within the Territory. Such genera, as Clytocosmus, Platyphasia, Plusiomyia and Ptilogyna, with branched antennae, and Leptotarsus and Semnotes, with the antennae simple and reduced, include the largest and most conspicuous crane-flies within the Australian faunal limits. Tipulinae. Tipula (Papuatipula) leucosticta Alexander. Tipula leucosticta Alexander, Philippine Journ. Sci., liv., 1934, 444-446. — Tipula (Papuatipula) leucosticta Alexander, ibid., lvii, 1935, 114-115. Known hitherto only from Bogadjim (Stephansort), Astrolabe Bay, north-eastern New Guinea, collected 30th March, 1900, by Bird. Two females, Kavieng, New Ireland, 31 January-14 February, 1934 (F. H. Taylor). Nephrotoma flavoposticata, n. sp. Text-figs. 1, 7. Mesonotal praescutum yellow, with velvety-black stripes, the median one plumbeous on central portion; scutellum black; pleura orange, unmarked; legs black, the posterior tibiae (^) or middle and hind tibiae ($) broadly yellow on * Continued from These Proceedings, lx, 1935, 51. H
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