Sept., igoi.] DOANE: DESCRIPTIONS OF NeW TiPULID^. 113 



Stigma brown ; the whitish band beginning in front of the stigma reaching the pos- 

 terior border of the discal cell, but not entering the fourth posterior cell ; discal cell 

 about twice as long as wide. I-ength, male 15 mm., female iS mm., wing 16 mm. 



Habitat: Battle Creek, Mich., two males, one female. Aldrich. 

 Type no. 175. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Resembles somewhat T. bicornis Lw., but may be easily distin- 

 guished by the structure of the tumid processes on the upper lamella 

 of the hypopygium which are black, set much closer together and 

 curved downward instead of upward. 



Tipula streptocera, sp. nov. 



Brownish-yellow ; head brown, darker above ; rostrum yellowish ; palpi brown ; 

 antennse of male reaching to base of halteres, first two segments and the basal half 

 of the third yellowish-brown ; remaining segments wholly brown ; mesonotum with 

 three broad dark brown stripes, the median one entire ; scutellum light brown ; 

 metanotum, pleura and coxre light yellow ; halteres brownish, yellowish at the base, 

 knobs brown ; legs yellowish, the tarsi and the tips of the femora and tibia brown ; 

 abdomen yellowish, darker posteriorly, with three brown stripes ; eighth sternite 

 reddish-brown much produced and narrowed posteriorly, posterior margin truncate ; 

 upper lamella of hypopygium very small, posterior margin produced into two blunt 

 processes between which is a small circular incision ; lower lamella very large, 

 lateral angles terminating in very long, tapering, twisted, horn-like processes ; ovi- 

 positor similar to T. meganitra, but lower lamella not quite as broad ; wings hyaline ; 

 costal and subcostal cells faintly tinged with yellow ; stigma and an inconspicuous 

 spot on the origin of the prsefurca brown ; the indistinct whitish band fading out 

 before it crosses the discal cell ; discal cell more than twice as long as wide. 

 Length, male 13 mm., female 14 mm., wing 15 mm. 



Habitat : Collins, Idaho, two males, one female. (Type) Piper. 

 Olympia, Wash., one male. Kincaid. Tokeland, Wash., one male. 

 Doane. Type no. 176. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



The specimen from Olympia has the stripes on the mesonotum 

 very faintly indicated. 



Tipula hirsuta, sp. nov. 



Yellow ; head somewhat brownish -yellow ; rostrum and palpi yellow ; antenna; 

 reaching a little beyond the base of the wings, first three segments yellow, the suc- 

 ceeding four or five yellowish-brown, the remaining segments brown ; those beyond 

 the third somewhat incrassate and darker at the base ; mesonotum light yellow with 

 three broad somewhat reddish-yellow stripes ; scutellum, metanotum, pleura and 

 coxae light yellow ; halteres yellow, knobs brown, lighter at the tips ; legs brownish, 

 tarsi and the tips of the femora and tibia darker, femora yellowish toward the base ; 

 abdomen yellow, darker posteriorly, with three faintly indicated stripes ; eighth 

 sternite somewhat produced and narrowed posteriorly, with a median depression which 

 is abundantly furnished with long yellow hair, lateral angles with a pair of short 



