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small black chitinizcd point on either side of the middle line con- 

 nected transversely. 



Holotype, cf , North Carolina. From the collection of C. V. 

 Riley in the United States National Museum. 



Paralypes, 3 cf' s, topotypic. 



The type and a paratype are in the collection of the United 

 States National Museum, the remaining paratypes are in the 

 collection of the author. 



This species falls in the same group with angustipennis Loew, 

 balioptera Loew, centralis Loew, scrta Loew, seplenirionalis Loew, 

 etc., from all of which it is easily separated by the structure of the 

 male genitalia. 



Tipula texensis, sp. n 



Male — Length 11.3-12 5 mm.; wing 1 1.5-15 mm. 

 Female — Length 13. 4-13. G mm.; wing 12.5-14 mm. 



Palpi dark brown. Frontal prolongation of the head dark 

 brown, with a sparse light gray bloom. Antenna* with the first 

 segment yellowish brown, with a sparse grayish bloom; second and 

 third segments yellow or brownish yellow, the remaining flagellar 

 segments yellow or dark brown basally, the terminal segments 

 more uniformly dark brown. Head light gray, more yellowish on 

 the occiput on either side of the median area; a delicate impressed, 

 median, brown, dorsal line. 



Mesonotal pricscutum light gray with dark brown stripes, the 

 middle stripe broadh' bisected by a vitta of the ground colour, 

 which in turn is split medially by a delicate brown line; lateral 

 stripes almost confluent with the median stripe; scutum light gray, 

 the lobes with an oblique brown mark; scutellum grayish testaceous, 

 with a very delicate median brown line; pcstnotum light gray with 

 or without a rather indistinct, impressed, median, brown line on 

 the caudal fourth of the segment. Pleura light gray, indistinctly 

 spotted with brown, the dorso-pleural membrane dull yellow. 

 Halteres with the base bright yellow, darkening into brown on the 

 knob. Legs yellow, with a grayish w^hite bloom; trochanters yellow; 

 femora dull yellow, the apex dark brown; tibia' yellowish brown, 

 only a little darkened at the apex; tarsi dark brown. Wings light 

 gray, the stigma rectangular, brownish yellow; brownish blotches 



