Sept., igoi.] DOANE : DESCRIPTIONS OF NeW TiPULID^. 109 



Tipula retusa, sp. nov. 



Yellow ; head dark brown with a somewhat darker line above ; rostrum yellow 

 with an indistinct brown stripe on each side ; palpi brown, darker toward the tip, yellow 

 at base ; antennce of male reaching beyond the base of the wings, dark brown, first 

 three joints yellow ; joints of the flagellum beyond the first constricted in the middle and 

 darker at the tip ; mesonotmn- brownish-yellow with three somewhat darker yellow 

 stripes, the median one divided by a very narrow, dark line ; collare yellow ; scutel- 

 lum, metanotum, plem-a and coxa; yellowish with a gray pollen ; halteres yellow, 

 knobs brown ; legs yellow, tarsi and tips of femora and tibia brown ; abdomen yel- 

 low, darker posteriorly, sixth, seventh and eighth segments mostly black ; posterior 

 margin of each segment gray ; posterior margin of eighth sternite with a border 

 of very thick long yellow hair which is usually folded back under this segment ; hypo- 

 pygium brown ; upper lamella ending in two broad, blunt, black-tipped processes be- 

 tween which is a wide rather deep incision ; lower lamella with a deep incision in 

 which hangs a pair of yellow appendages the points of which are curved towards each 

 other and furnished with yellow hair ; ovipositor reddish-brown, upper valves of 

 nearly equal width throughout, extreme tips slightly broader with four short points, a 

 rather deep rounded incision between the lower point and the one above it ; wings 

 hyaline ; costal and subcostal cells, the stigma and a small faint spot on the origin of 

 the prjefurca brown ; a broad whitish band beginning in front of the stigma back of 

 the first longitudinal vein and extending through the discal cell into the base of the 

 fourth and the side of the fifth posterior cells ; discal cell twice as long as wide. 

 Length, male 15 mm., female 20 mm., wing 16 to 19 mm. 



Habitat : Wawawi, Wash., six males, two females. (Type) Pull- 

 man, Wash., one male, one female. Doane. Olympia, Wash., one 

 male. Seattle, Wash., two males, one female. Kincaid. Type no. 

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



Tipula translucida, sp. nov. 



Yellow ; head yellow with a narrow dark line above ; rostrum yellow ; palpi 

 lighter yellow ; antennae reaching but little beyond the base of the wings, yellow, base 

 of each segment beyond the third .slightly incrassate and darker at the base ; whole 

 thorax somewhat reddish-yellow ; pleura somewhat lighter ; halteres yellow, knobs 

 brown ; legs yellow, tarsi and extreme tips of femora and tibia darker ; abdomen yel- 

 low, somewhat darker posteriorly ; posterior margin of each segment gray ; posterior 

 margin of eighth sternite with a fringe of long yellow hairs, lateral angles with a sin- 

 gle long curved reddish bristle ; hypopygium brownish-red ; upper lamella terminating 

 in two sharp black points between which is a rather deep, V-shaped incision ; lower 

 lamella with a rounded incision in which lies a pair of brownish, elongated, tumid, 

 pendulous appendages the tips of which are furnished with rather long, yellow hair ; 

 wings hyaline ; costal, subcostal, anterior margin of anal cells and stigma yellowish ; 

 the whitish stripe running from in front of the stigma across the discal cell not enter- 

 ing the fourth posterior cell ; discal cell three times as long as wide. Length, male 

 15 mm., wing 17 mm. 



Zr<?/V/«/ .• Penn., four males. Dietz. Type no. 169. Wash. Agric. 

 Coll. & S. of S. 



