Sept-.igoi.] DOANE: DESCRIPTIONS OF NeW TiPULID^. Ill 



the mesonotum not saturate margined ; upper valves of ovipositor 

 acute. I do not have a male oi prcecisa before me so I cannot com- 

 pare the hypopygia. 



Tipula diluta, sp. nov. 



Bown ; head brownish-gray with a narrow median line above ; restrain short, 

 stout, yellowish, grayish above ; nasus nearly half as long as the rostrum ; palpi brown, 

 lighter toward the tip ; antennre reaching nearly to base of abdomen, wholly brown, 

 segments one to five lighter brown, those beyond the third slightly incrassate at base ; 

 mesonotum light gray with three very broad brown stripes, the median one divided by 

 a darker line ; collare brown ; scutellum light yellowish ; metanotum yellowish-gray ; 

 pleura and coxae light gray ; halteres brown ; knobs dark brown ; abdomen brownish, 

 lighter toward the base, with a lighter dorsal stripe ; posterior and lateral margins of each 

 segment gray; hypopygium small, brown; upper and lower lamella indistinctly sepa- 

 rated, posterior margin of the former with a short rectangular process the posterior 

 lateral angles of which are produced into short, black points ; ventral side of lower 

 lamella light yellow, with a deep narrow incision, outer appendages yellow, broad, 

 irregularly ovate, overlapping ; wings with a brownish tinge except in the middle 

 portion which is somewhat whitish hyaline ; costal, subcostal and the anterior margins 

 of the first basal and the anal cells darker ; stigma brown ; an indistinct whitish spot 

 in front of the stigma. Length, male 12 mm., wing 14 mm. 



Habitat : Colo., two males. Morrison. Type no. 182, Wash. 

 Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Tipula leucophaea, sp. nov. 



Cinereous ; head cinereous, darker posteriorly with a broad dark brown stripe 

 above ; rostrum cinereous, long, stout ; palpi brown, darker at the tip ; antennee of 

 female reaching a little more than half way to base of wings, first joint yellowish- 

 brown, second joint yellowish, others brown ; metonotum cinereous with three slate- 

 colored fusco-margined stripes, the median one divided by a narrow fuscous line ; a 

 broad fuscous line just above the dorsopleura suture ; collare rather broad, prominent, 

 cinereous, with a median brown spot ; scutellum and metanotum cinereous each with 

 a distinct fuscous line ; dorsopleural membrane yellowish ; ground color of pleura 

 brown, covered with a silvery bloom ; abdomen yellowish with three brown stripes ; 

 seventh and eighth segments mostly brown ; base of ovipositor broad, light brown, 

 shining, upper valves reddish-brown, broad, apex acute, lower valves reaching only 

 to the base of the upper valves ; wings cinereous ; a spot in the base of the basal cells, 

 another over the origin of the prcefurca and a larger one over the stigma brown ; all 

 of the veins except in the basal portion of the wing more or less bordered with brown ; 

 faint brownish clouds in all the cells and on the apex of the wing ; discal cell three 

 times as long as wide. Length, female 30 mm., wing 25 mm. 



Habitat : Colo., one female. Morrison. Type no. 183, Wash. 

 Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



