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rather short, light yellow. Legs with the coxae comparatively 

 small, pale, sparsely gray pruinose; trochanters dull yellow; femora 

 swollen, brownish yellow, very hairy; tibia; and the first segment of 

 the tarsus dull brownish yellow, darkened at the apex, the terminal 

 tarsal segments dark brown. Wings grayish subhyaline, the 

 costal region yellowish brown, the veins C, Sc and R yellow, the 

 remaining veins dark brown. Venation with Sa placed very far 

 back from the tip of Sc\, but distad of the base of the sector; cells 

 Ri very broad and almost completely filled by the very large 

 pubescent stigma; cross-vein r long, oblique, inserted at or slightly 

 .beyond the fork of the sector; R^+i long, about subequal to R2 

 alone; basal deflection of Cm at the fork of M; cell 1st M2 closed. 



Abdominal tergites brownish gray, broadly margined with 

 yellow caudally; sternites similar ,the pale margins less distinct; 

 hypopygium pale. 



The female is similar to the male, but smaller, the stigma very 

 small, and in the allotypic specimen the cell 1st M2 open by the 

 atrophy of the medial cross-vein (this latter condition undoubtedly 

 abnormal). 



Holotype, d' , Jemez Springs, New Mexico; altitude 6,400 feet; 

 August 8, 1916 (John Woodgate). 



Allotype, 9 , Ardmore, South Dakota; August 10, 1915 (E. G. 

 Holt). 



Paratype, cf , with the allotype; August 5, 1915. 



The type and the allotype are in the collection of the author, 

 the paratype in the collection of the United States Biological 

 Survey. 



This insect is provisionally referred to Trimicra, but undoubt- 

 edly represents a new genus, which will be characterized in a later 

 paper. 



Subfamily Tipiilina. 



Tribe Tipulini. 



Genus Tipiila Linnaeus. 



Tipula (Cinctotipula) apache, sp. n. 



ilfa/e— Length 12.3-13.1 mm.; wing 11.8-12.2 mm. 

 Female — Length about 18 mm.; wing 16 mm. 

 Palpi black. Frontal prolongation of the head short, brown, 

 dusted with gray above and with a narrow, linear, median, yellow,. 



