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Tipula splendens, sp. nov. 



Yellow ; head yellow, grayish-brown above ; rostrum and palpi yellow, latter 

 brownish toward the tip; antenna reaching the base of abdomen, dark brown, first 

 three segments yellow; joints of the flagellum cylindrical, those beyond the first very 

 slightly incrassate at the base ; mesonotum yellow with scarcely perceptible brownish 

 shades in place of the usual three stripes ; collare, scutellum, metanotum, pleura and 

 coxae somewhat lighter yellow, halteres yellow, knobs brown ; abdomen brownish- 

 yellow, much lighter toward the base, posterior margin of each segment gray ; eighth 

 sternite long, narrowed posteriorly, posterior margin with a border of yellow hair ; 

 upper lamella of hypopygium with median V-shaped and lateral crescent-shaped in- 

 cisions, posterior lateral corners produced inwardly into short, narrow two-pointed 

 processes ; posterior ventral margin of lower lamella with two small processes each 

 bearing a tuft of hair, lateral margins with two pairs of appendages the outer lower 

 pair being triangular with the apex drawn out into a slender point, the basal portion 

 of the upper inner pair is somewhat quadrate, shining, the distal portion flattened and 

 with a black edge ; wings hyaline ; subcostal cell and stigma faintly yellowish ; a 

 scarcely perceptible whitish broken band running from in front of the stigma through 

 the discal cell into the base of the fourth posterior cell ; discal cell more than twice as 

 long as wide. Length, male 12 mm., wing 13 mm. 



Habitat: Olympia, Wash., one male. Kincaid. Type no. 164. 

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



Tipula calcarata, sp. nov. 



Brown ; head -yellowish-brown with a narrower indistinct stripe above ; rostrum 

 reddish-brown ; palpi dark brown, basal segment reddish-brown ; antenn;^ not reach- 

 ing beyond the base of the wings, brown, first two segments yellow ; mesonotum 

 brown with four darker brown stripes, the two median ones slightly diverging ante- 

 riorly ; collare light brownish with three darker spots ; dorsop'eural membrane yel- 

 lowish ; pleura and coxjs brownish-gray; halteres brown, yellowish at the base, 

 knobs brown, tips lighter ; legs brownish-yellow, tarsi and tips of the femora and 

 tibia brown ; abdomen yellowish-brown with three indistinct yellowish-brown stripes ; 

 posterior margin of each segment gray ; eighth sternite with a deep U-shaped incision 

 from the base of which arises a broad, blunt process with yellow hairs at the base ; lat- 

 eral margins of the segment ending in a pair of long, slender, reddish, spur-like proc- 

 esses which lie across the base of the incision ; upper lamella of hypopygium ter- 

 minating in two short, median, blunt processes between which is a narrow incision, 

 and two lateral incurving longer, sharper processes ; lower lamella with a very deep, 

 U-shaped incision ; wings hyaline with a brownish tinge ; subcostal cell brownish, 

 stigma darker brown ; the distinct whitish band beginning in front of the stigma and 

 running through the discal cell into the base of the fourth posterior cell is interrupted 

 along the pra;furca. Length, male 15 mm., wing 17 mm. 



Habitat : Mount Rainier, Wash., one male. Piper. Type no. 165. 

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



Tipula clara, sp. nov. 



Brown ; head yeilowish-brown, darker above, with a median brown stripe ; 



