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



PART II.* 



BY CHARLES P. ALEXANDER, ITHACA. N. Y. 



This paper is a continuation of the first part under this title 

 (Can. Ent., vol. XLVIII, pp. 42-53, February, 1916). Unless 

 stated otherwise the types of the new species are in the collection 

 of the author. 



Family JipididcE. 

 Subfamily Limnobina. 

 Tribe Limnobini. 

 Genus Dicranomyia Stephens. 



Dicranomyia mel'eicauda, sp. n. 



Antennae black throughout; thorax dark brown, the mesd"notaI 

 stripes very dark brown, wings w'ith the stigma short, oval, very 

 dark brow^n; abdomen dark brown with the ventral lobes of the 

 male hypopygium light yellow 



Male.- — Length 5.8-6.7 mm.; wing 6.5-7.6 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi black. Antenna? black throughout; seg- 

 ments of the flagellum uniformly oval. Head black with a very 

 sparse, grayish bloom. 



Mesonotum dark brown with a golden yellow bloom, most ap- 

 parent on the lateral margins of the prsescutum and the median 

 area of the scutum, pra^scutal stripes shiny, dark brown, particu- 

 larly without pollen; scutellum dark brown, postnotum with a 

 dense, yellowish gray bloom. Pleura dark brownish black with a 

 grayish bloom on the posterior sclerites, more golden yellow on the 

 anterior sclerites. Halteres dark brown, the base of the stem more 

 yellowish. Legs with the coxae brown, sparsely gray pruinoss; 

 trochanters and femora dull yellow, the latter soon passing into 

 dark broAvn; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wings with a slight 

 dusky or grayish tinge; stigma very prominent, oval, dark brown; 

 veins dark brown. Venation: Sc short, ending about opposite 

 the origin of the sector; Sa rather distant from the tip of Sc\, 

 this distance about equal to the short, oval stigma; Rs elongate, 

 arcuated at origin, more than twice the length of the basal deflec- 



* Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of Cornell University. 

 January, 1917 



