Sept-.igoi.] DOANE : DESCRIPTIONS OF NeW TlPULIDiE. 99 



Tipula sulphurea, sp. nov. 



Brownish ; head yellowish, brownish to cinereous above, with a faint fuscous 

 streak ; rostrum yellowish, rather short ; nasus short, with yellowish hairs ; palpi brown- 

 ish to black, yellowish toward the base ; first three joints of antennae yellowish, second 

 somewhat darker, others brownish black ; antennre of male reaching beyond the base 

 of the wings ; antennae of female lighter and shorter, not reaching to the base of the 

 wings ; mesonotum brownish with three indistinct darker brown lines, the median 

 one divided by a faint narrow cinereous line ; collare brown, lateral margins grayish ; 

 scutellum and metanotum light yellow; the posterior half of the pleura sulphur yel- 

 low ; mesopleura and stenopleura and the base of the first and second coxae slate 

 colored ; dorsopleural membrane light brownish ; halteres brownish, extreme base 

 yellowish ; legs brown, the tarsi and the tips of the femora and tibia darker ; base 

 of the femora somewhat yellowish ; abdomen brownish yellow, the posterior margin 

 of each segment lighter; a rather broad, broken brown stripe On each side of the 

 terga and a similar one the sterna; basal half of eighth segment brown, distal half 

 yellow ; hypopygium yellow ; upper lamella terminating in two short, blunt, black 

 points ; lower lamella with a deep incision from the base of which arises a pair of 

 long membranous upward and inward projecting appendages ; the brown stripe on the 

 abdomen of the female broader and more complete ; eighth and ninth terga short ; 

 ovipositor reddish-brown, acute, lower valves reaching beyond the base of the upper 

 valves ; wings immaculate with a slight grayish tinge ; stigma and veins brown ; the 

 subcostal cell and the anterior margin of the anal cell with' a slight yellowish or 

 brownish tinge ; discal cell more than three times as long as wide ; petiole of the 

 second posterior cell about equal to the length of this cell ; fifth posterior cell not 

 in contact with the discal cell. Length, male 13 mm., female 15 mm., wing II 

 mm. 



Habitat: Battle Creek, Mich., sixteen males six females. Aid- 

 rich. Type no. 149. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Tipula fumosa, sp. nov. 



Grayish brown ; head silvery gray poUinose, dark brown above ; rostrum short, 

 thick ; nasus inconspicuous, with short yellow hairs ; palpi and antenna; dark brown, 

 the latter reaching but little beyond the base of the wings in the male ; basal seg- 

 ment grayish, last segment very minute ; mesonotum light brown with three very 

 broad darker brown stripes which are darker bordered, the median one divided by a 

 narrow, indistinct darker line ; collare grayish-brown with three darker spots ; 

 scutellum light grayish-brown with a median darker line ; metanotum, pleura and 

 coxae silvery gray pollinose ; dorsopleural membrane light brownish ; halteres brown- 

 ish yellow, knobs brown ; tarsi and tips of femora and tibia dark brown, femora 

 yellowish, tibia brownish ; abdomen dull brown, posterior and lateral margins of 

 each segment grayish ; eighth tergite visible only at the sides ; hypopygium small, 

 concolorous with rest of abdomen ; upper lamella terminating in two short, black, 

 blunt, tooth-like projections ; lower lamella with a deep V-shaped incision ; ovipositor 

 short, base blackish ; valves reddish-brown ; upper valves slender, acute ; lower 

 valves shorter and nmch broader ; wings immaculate, with a dark tinge which is a 

 little darker anteriorly ; an indistinct whitish space in front of the brown stigma ; 



