102 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.ix. 



Habitat : Mount Rainier, Wash., two males. Piper. Type no. 

 154. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



The antennai of both the specimens before me are deformed, mak- 

 ing them appear only eleven or twelve jointed. 



Tipula stalactoides, sp. nov. 



Brown ; head brownish-gray with a median rather broader, short, brown hne 

 above ; rostrum short, brownish-yellow, darker above ; antennre reaching to base of 

 halteres, brown, first two segments and the base of the third yellow ; joints of flagel- 

 lum cylindrical, very slightly incrassite at the base; mesonotum brownish-gray with 

 six brown stripes, the lateral pairs narrow and converging anteriorly, the median pair 

 broad, parallel, the grayish stripe dividing them suddenly broadened in the middle ; 

 collare grayish with three brownish spots ; dorsopleural membrane yellowish ; scutel- 

 lum, metanotum, raesopleura and sternopleura dark gray, rest of pleura yellowish- 

 gray ; halteres brown, base yellow, knobs darker ; legs brownish yellow, tarsi and 

 tips of femora and tibia brown ; abdomen yellowish-brown, with three broad black 

 stripes ; eighth segment black ; eighth sternite with two deep longitudinal folds or 

 depressions which are abundantly supplied with thick yellowish hair ; hypopygium 

 black ; posterior margin of upper lamella with two very small reddish brown points ; 

 lower lamella with a median whitish streak extending its entire length, posterior lateral 

 angles whitish, each with a long, slender, whitish membranous appendage which 

 hangs over the lower lamella ; wings hyaline ; costal, subcostal and anterior margin 

 of the anal cells tinged with yellow ; stigma brown ; one or two indistinct whitish 

 spots in the region of the stigma and a fainter spot in the discal cell ; discal cell more 

 than four times as long as wide. Length, male 12 mm., wing 12 mm. 



Habitat: Unalaska, three males. Kincaid. Type no. 155. Wash. 

 Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Tipula tristis, sp. nov. 



Brown ; head grayish-brown with a brown stripe above ; rostrum grayish-brown ; 

 antennns reaching a little beyond the base of the wings, wholly brown ; joints four to 

 eight rather short, thick, constricted in the middle, incrassate at the tip ; those be- 

 yond the eighth somewhat longer, also constricted in the middle ; mesonotum light 

 brownish with six brown stripes, the median pair broad, parallel, the lateral pairs 

 narrow, converging ; collare grayish-brown with five brown spots ; dorsopleural mem- 

 brane yellow ; scutellum and metanotum dark brown ; pleura blackish with yellow- 

 ish pollen ; coxoe blackish ; halteres yellowish, knobs brown ; legs yellowish-brown, 

 tarsi and the tips of the femora and tibia darker ; abdomen yellowish-brown, pos- 

 terior and lateral margins of each segment yellowish to grayish ; posterior margin of 

 the eighth sternite with a few short yellow hairs and a median short two-lobed ap- 

 pendage which is narrower at its base ; hypopygium small, elongate ; upper lamella 

 with a deep, broad, V-shaped incision ; lower lamella with a narrow very deep in- 

 cision which almost divides it into two parts ; wings grayish or brownish ; variegated 

 with whitish hyaline spaces ; a band running from in front of the stigma across the 

 discal, fourth, and fifth posterior cells to the margin of the wing, a space beyond the 



