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gray areas, the more cephalic of which are margined with brown; scutellum 

 and postnotum light gray with a very indistinct brown median line. Pleura 

 clear blue-gray. Hal teres dull yellow, the knobs scarcely darkened. Legs 

 with the coxae gray; trochanters dull yellow, the posterior trochanters faintly 

 pruinose; femora brownish yellow with a broad darker brown subapical ring, 

 the extreme tips very slightly paler; tibiae dull brownish yellow, tipped with 

 brown; tarsi dark brown, the bases of the metatarsi brownish yellow. Wings 

 whitish subhyaline, with a pale brown pattern; cells (', Sc and the wing-base 

 strongly yellow; stigma oval, dark brown; wing apex darkened, including 

 the end of cell R2, the apical half of R3, all except the base of R^, all of Mi 

 and 2nd Mi and the ends of 1st M2 and M4; darker brown marks at the origin 

 and tip of Rs and along Cui and C^^>; faint brownish gray clouds along the 

 cord, across the wing at about mid-length of the basal cells, including about 

 all of cell R; 2nd Anal cell similar; a large hyaline spot near the end of cell M. 

 Venation: cell 1st M> long and narrow, pentagonal; petiole of cell Mi short; 

 m-cu punctiform. 



Abdominal tergites with the first segment dull gray; the following segments 

 reddish buff with three broad dark brown stripes, which become broadened 

 out on the terminal segments to include all of segment seven and the posterior 

 half of segment six; lateral margins of the segments pale; impressed basal 

 areas pale brown, inconspicuous; sternites similar, the three basal segments 

 reddish brown, the others dark bro-RTi with the caudal margin more reddish. 

 Ovipositor of the arctica type, the tergal valves rather slender, the outer 

 margin with acute, appressed teeth; sternal valves minute, subatrophied. 



Habitat.— 3 apiin. Holotype, 9 , Saitama, May 29, 1919, (R. 

 Takahashi) . 



Tipula terebrina new species 



General coloration gray, the mesonotum with four dark brown stripes, 

 of which the lateral pair are paler than the intermediate pair; antennae indis- 

 tinctly bicolorous; vertex with a dark brown median line; wings brownish 

 gray, with a broad hyaline band beyond the stigma extending caudad and 

 proximad through cell 1st Mo- 



Female. — Length, about 20 mm.; wing, 17.7 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head reddish yellow, grayish medially above; 

 nasus moderately slender; palpi with the first segment pale, the remaining 

 segments brown. Antennae with the first segment dark, the second segment 

 dull yellow; flagellar segments indistinctly bicolorous, the basal enlargment 

 of the individual segments dark brown, the remainder slightly paler brown. 

 Head gray, the vertex with a conspicuous dark brown median line which is 

 narrowed to a point behind. 



Pronotum gray, with a dark brown mark above; scutellum light yellow. 

 Mesonotal praescutum gray with four dark brown stripes, the intermediate 

 pair separated from one another by a somewhat narrower and paler brown 

 stripe ; lateral stripes pale, the lateral margin tending to be obliterated ; scutum 

 light gray with the lobes very indistinctly darker medially; scutellum testa- 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVI. 



