100 Journal New York Entomological Society. [voi. ix. 



discal cell more than twice as long as wide ; petiole of second posterior cell short. 

 Length, male lo mm., female 12 mm., wing 12 mm. 



Habitat : Columbtis, Ohio, seven males, one female. Hines. 

 Type no. 150. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Tipula rosteilata, sp. nov. 



Black ; head blackish, darker above, grayish beneath the antennce and eyes ; 

 rostrum black, rather short and stout ; nasus with black or brownish hair ; palpi 

 black ; antennae brownish black, the tips of the basal joints of the flagellum some- 

 what enlarged and produced below, not furnished with verticillate hairs ; last joint 

 much more slender than the preceding joint ; mesonotum dark slate-color, with three 

 longitudinal grayish stripes, the median one narrow and indistinct, the lateral ones 

 broader ; collare dark grayish-brown with two darker spots ; scutellum, metanotum, 

 pleura and coxae blackish-gray ; dorso-pleural membrane reddish-brown ; halteres 

 brown, knobs darker ; legs very dark brown, femora reddish-brown toward the base ; 

 abdomen dull blackish-brown ; dorsum with a distinct, broad, reddish-brown stripe ; 

 posterior margin of each segment grayish ; hypopygium small ; upper lamella black, 

 posterior margin with a rather broad yellowish lobe on each side leaving a deep in- 

 cision between ; lower lamella black with a deep narrow incision the edges of which 

 are bordered with yellow, with two pairs of broad, yellowish appendages, the upper 

 pair broadly ovate, the lower inner pair drawn out to an acute inward projecting point ; 

 base of ovipositor black, valves reddish-yellow ; lower valves very short, reaching 

 but little beyond the base of the upper valves, latter not arcuated ; wings rather 

 broad, immaculate ; subcostal cell, the anterior margin of the anal cell and the stigma 

 faint brownish yellow ; discal cell about three times as long as wide ; petiole of 

 second posterior cell short ; veins brown. Length, male 13 mm., female 15 mm., 

 wing 14 mm. 



Habitat : Colorado, two males, two females. Morrison. TyjDe no. 

 151. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Tipula cervicula, sp. nov. 



Black ; head velvety black ; rostrum black, rather short ; nasus indistinct ; palpi 

 black or blackish-brown; antennre velvety black, joints cylindrical, base verticillate 

 with short black hairs, last joint very short ; mesonotum velvety black with four rather 

 broad indistinct grayish lines ; scutellum, metanotum, pleura and coxa black ; dorso- 

 pleural membrane yellow ; halteres brownish, lighter toward the base ; legs black, 

 base of femora brownish-yellow ; abdomen black, posterior and lateral margins of 

 each segment grayish ; hypopygium small but rather long ; upper lamella black with 

 a deep incision ; lower lamella reddish -brown with a ver)' deep, bi-oad inci- 

 sion ; base of ovipositor black, valves reddish-yellow, upper valves straight, tips 

 somewhat obtuse ; lower valves shorter, broad, flat ; wings immaculate, with a 

 grayish tinge ; subcostal cell and the anterior margin of the anal cell with a faint yel- 

 lowish-brown tinge ; stigma brown ; discal cell hardly twice as long as broad ; petiole 

 of the second posterior cell not longer than the discal cell ; veins brown e.\cept at the 

 base of the discal and second submarginal cell where they are white ; the grayish 



