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3 miles of the mouth of the Flint River. Two of them are dated 

 July 9, another July 8, the fourth, August 8. This last 

 specimen is peculiar in having only the front wings darkened 

 apically, though quite mature. The others are all of the race 

 hud sonic um, although one of them approaches the race cBquabile 

 slightly in having a little less black on the hind wings. 



I have also a series from several parts of Algonquin Park, 

 Ont., which is on the edge of the Canadian Zone. Some of these 

 specimens are typical hudsoniciim, and on the whole they are quite 

 similar to the Kenogami River specimens. Another series, 

 taken at Kitchener, Ont., (formerly Berlin), by W. J. Fraser have, 

 on an average, slightly less black on the apices of the wings than 

 the Algonquin Park specimens. Some of these are typical cBquabile 

 except that the black area of the front wings is perhaps a little 

 smaller, while others are nearer hudsonicum and cannot be dis- 

 tinguished from Algonquin Park specimens. 



Hudsonicum tends to be a larger, stouter race than CBquabile. 



E. M. Walker. 



NEW NEARCTIC CRANE-FLIES (TIPULID^, DIPTERA). 



PART VI. 



BY CHARLES P. ALEXANDER, LAWRENCE, KANS. 

 (Continued from Page 386.) 



Tipula kansensis, new species. 



Coloration pale brownish yellow; the mesonotal praescutum 

 with five narrow, dark brown lines; antennal flagellum dark brown; 

 wings with a white and brown picture on a pale brownish gray 

 ground; male hypopygium with the ninth tergite small, deeply 

 impressed medially to form two tumid halves; ninth pleurite pro- 

 duced into a flattened, chitinized lobe that is truncated apically; 

 two pendulous, fleshy lobes in the notch of the ninth sternite. 



Male. — Length 17 mm.; wing 15.3 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head long, grayish brown; nasus 

 indistinct; palpi with the three basal segments brownish yellow, 

 the terminal segment dark brown. Antennse rather short, the 

 first three segments brownish yellow, the flagellum dark brown; 

 the basal enlargements of the segments a little darker. Head 

 grayish brown, with a distinct impressed median line. 



Mesonotal praescutum brownish yellow, the usual stripes 



December, 1818 



