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



Habitat: Pullman, Wash., nineteen males, fourteen females. 

 Doane. Collins, Idaho, two males. Piper. Type no. 173. Wash. 

 Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Tipula inermis, sp. nov. 



Brown ; head light bi-own with a median brown stripe above ; rostrum yellow- 

 ish-brown ; palpi yellow at base, darker toward the tip ; antennae of male reaching 

 to base of wings, yellow, each segment beyond the third dark at the base ; mesonotum 

 light brown with three brown stripes, the median one divided by a lighter line ; col- 

 lare brown with a median darker line ; scutellum yellowish-brown with a median 

 darker line ; metanotum light yellow ; pleura and coxaj grayish ; halteres yellow, 

 knobs brown ; legs brown, femora and tibia yellowish toward the base ; abdomen 

 brown, yellowish toward the base, with three darker brown stripes ; posterior and 

 lateral margins of each segment gray ; posterior margin of eighth sternite with a 

 median reddish-brown, two-pointed process and lateral triangular brownish appen- 

 dages which terminate in long, stiff, curved, reddish bristles ; hypopygium small ; 

 upper lamella dark reddish-brown with a deep crescent-shaped incision ; lower 

 lamella brownish, lighter toward the margin with a deep U-shaped incision in which 

 hang two long light yellow tumid appendages with yellow hairs toward the tip ; 

 ovipositor long, straight, dark reddish-brown ; wings hyaline ; costal, subcostal and 

 anterior margin of anal cells tinged with yellow ; stigma light brown ; the whitish 

 band beginning on the costa in front of the stigma reaching only to the extreme 

 base of the fourth posterior cell ; discal cell more than twice as long as wide. 

 Length, male 20 mm., female 27 mm., wing 22 m. 



Habitat : Battle Creek, Mich., four males, one female. (Type) 

 Aldrich. White Mts., one male. Morrison. N. C, six males. 

 Georgia, one male. Morrison. Type no. 174. Wash. Agric. Coll. & 

 S. of S. 



Tipula megaura, sp. nov. 



Yellow ; head yellow with a dark brown line above ; rostrum, palpi and antennae 

 yellow, the latter reaching a little beyond the base of the wings, base of each segment 

 beyond the third darker ; mesonotum yellow with four brownish stripes, the median 

 one divided ; collare, scutellum and metanotum yellow ; pleura whitish-yellow ; 

 halteres yellow, knobs brown, tips lighter ; legs brown, femora yellowish toward the 

 base ; abdomen yellowish, much darker posteriorly, with three brown stripes, the dorsal 

 one entire and distinct, the lateral ones indistinct, interrupted ; posterior margin of 

 eighth sternite with a fringe of yellow hairs and two strong curved reddish bristles ; 

 hypopygium reddish-brown ; upper lamella tumid, with a short rather broad, two 

 pointed tumid process arising from the dorsal side near the posterior margin ; the pos- 

 terior lateral angles of the process also drawn out into short, blunt points ; lower 

 lamella with a median depression in which lie the tips of two short yellow haired ap- 

 pendages ; eighth abdominal segment of female and ovipositor reddish-brown, upper 

 valves very short, somewhat quadrate, nearly as broad as long ; lower valves broad, 

 leaflike ; wings hyaline ; costal, subcostal and anterior border of anal cells yellowish; 



