106 Journal New York Entomological Society, [Voi. ix. 



cylindrical; mesonotum reddish-yellow with three very faint brownish stripes; 

 collare yellowish, darker niedianly ; scutellum and metanotum brownish-yellow ; 

 pleura and coxii; bright yellow ; halteres yellow, knobs brown ; legs yellow or 

 brownish-yellow, tips of femora, tarsi and tibia brown ; abdomen reddish-yellow, 

 with three broken brown stripes which are more indistinct anteriorly, the dorsal one 

 somewhat broader posteriorly ; the lateral lines are sometimes so broken that they 

 appear as a series of brown dots on the anterior margin of each segment ; posterior 

 margin of each segment gray ; eighth sternite large, ventral margin somewhat pro- 

 duced posteriorly, and furnished with a fringe of rather long reddish-yellow hair ; 

 upper lamella consisting of two lateral elongated processes the bases of which are 

 broadest and connected by a more membranous portion, the distal halves are narrower 

 with the lateral margins and the extreme tips bent in at right angles to the upper 

 surface ; lower lamella long, lateral margins with an irregularly triangular appendage, 

 the posterior margin with two small brown tumid processes each bearing a tuft of 

 yellowish hair; base of ovipositor brownish, shining, valves yellowish, upper pair 

 rounded at the tip, lower pair short, reaching but little beyond the base of the upper 

 pair; wings hyaline ; costal and subcostal cells slightly tinged with yellow ; stigma 

 brown ; a scarcely perceptible whitish band running from in front of the stigma 

 across the discal cell into the base of the fourth posterior cell ; discal cell a little 

 more than twice as long as wide. Length, male 12 mm., female 13 mm., wing 

 13 mm. 



Habitat : Pullman, Wash., five males, one female. Doane. Type 

 no. 162. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Tipula subtilis, sp. nov. 



Brown ; head grayish-brown ; rostrum yellowish-brown, grayish above ; palpi 

 brownish ; antennae yellowish, long, reaching beyond the base of the abdomen ; base 

 of each joint of the flagellum except the first slightly incrassate and brownish at the 

 base ; mesonotum grayish-brown with three broad darker brown stripes, the median 

 one divided by a gray line ; collare light brownish, with three darker spots ; scutel- 

 lum, metanotum, pleura and coxje silvery gray ; halteres yellowish, base of knob 

 brown, tip whitish ; legs light yellowish -brown, tips of femora and tibia scarcely 

 darker ; abdomen brown with light yellow hair ; posterior and lateral margins of each 

 segment gray ; median portion of posterior margin of the eighth sternite slightly de- 

 pressed, brownish with two short acute processes ; on each side of this depression is 

 a small irregularly ovate, light colored process which bears a tuft of yellow hair ; 

 posterior margin of upper lamella of hypopygium with a narrow median and two 

 broader crescent-shaped incisions ; lower lamella with a broad, deep, U-shaped incision 

 in which hangs two tumid pendulous processes ; wings almost hyaline with a slight 

 grayish tinge ; subcostal cell and stigma light brownish ; a scarcely perceptible broken 

 whitish band running from in front of the stigma through the discal cell but not enter- 

 ing the fourth posterior cell ; discal cell about twice as long as wide. Length, male 

 15 mm., wing 16 mm. 



Habitat : Calif., one male. Type no. 163. Wash. Agric. Coll. 

 e^ S. of S. 



