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yellow. Male hypopygium with the ventral pleural lobe elongate, 

 fleshy, projecting far beyond the other appendages, on its dorsal 

 face before the tip with a sharp, dark-coloured spine. Penis- 

 guard narrow subtended on either side by a sharp, curved chitinized 

 hook whose points are directed ventrad; these hooks are unequal 

 in size, one being much smaller and feebler than the other; at its 

 apex the guard ends in a slender dorsally curved hook. Female 

 ovipositor with the valves long and straight. 



Habitat. — California. 



Holotype.—&, Los Cerritos, Cal., March 19, 1915, (M. C. 

 Van Duzee). 



Allotype. — 9 , with the type, March 14. 



Paratopotypes. — 2 d^'s. 



Tipula entomophthorae, new species. 



Mesonotal praescutum gray with three brown stripes; wings 

 gray with a broad cross-band of white beyond the cord; vein R^ 

 persistent for its entire length; male hypopygium having the 

 ninth tergite deeply nojtched medially, the lateral angles obliquely 

 truncated. 



Male. — Length about 18 mm.'; wing 15.8 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head elongate, yellow above, 

 dark brown beneath and on the sides. Antennse with the three 

 basal segments brownish yellow, the remainder of the flagellum 

 dark brown. Head gray with an indistinct, median brown line. 



Thoracic pronotum gray, narrowly brown medially. Meso- 

 notal praescutum light gray with three dark brown stripes that 

 are centred with gray, the median stripe narrowed behind. Pseu- 

 dosutural foveae prominent. Scutum with two brown marks on 

 each lobe; median lobe of the scutum and scutellum with a very 

 narrow, brown line; postnotum yellowish brown. Pleura clear 

 gray. Legs with the femora dull yellow, the bases brighter, the 

 tips more infuscated; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Halteres 

 broken. Wings brown, gray and whitish, cross-banded. A dark 

 area at the 'arculus and cross-vein h, another at the origin of the 

 sector, a large area at the stigma continued down to cell 1st M^; 



