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brown, posterior margin with a tuft of light yellow hair ; upper lamella of hypopy- 

 gium, with a median depression and a slight incision ; posterior margin of the lower 

 lamella with a broad blunt triangular process the middle of which is whitish and 

 tumid, the sides reddish-brown ; wings brown with three irregular white bands, the 

 first near the base, the second near the middle and the third toward the apex of the 

 wing; the extreme apex of the second submarginal cell, the apical portion of the 

 first posterior cell and the basal portion of the second, third, and fourth posterior cells 

 also white spotted ; a small white spot at the origin of the prcefurca ; costal cell ex- 

 cept a brown cloud opposite the origin of the prrefurca, and the extreme base of the 

 wing white ; discal cell three times as long as wide. Length, male 17 mm., wing 

 19 mm. 



Habitat: Pullman, Wash., one male. Piper. Type no. 187, 

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



Tipula albonotata, sp. nov. 



Brown ; head grayish-brown with a median brown stripe above ; rostrum yellowish, 

 brownish above ; palpi brown, yellowish toward the base ; antennae reaching the base 

 of the wings, first three segments yellow, others dark brown and deeply excised be- 

 low in the male ; antennae of female much shorter, first six or seven segments yellow- 

 ish, others brown ; mesonotum brown, with three broad brown stripes, the median one 

 divided by a narrow grayish line ; collate grayish-brown with a median brown spot ; 

 scutellum brown with a darker brown median stripe ; metanotum cinereous ; pleura 

 slate-colored ; halteres yellow, knobs brown ; legs yellowish-brown, tarsi and tips of 

 femora and tibia darker ; abdomen brownish-yellow with three brown stripes, the 

 lateral ones faintly indicated, posterior margin of each segment yellowish ; eighth 

 sternite and hypopygium reddish-brown ; posterior margin of upper lamella depressed, 

 shining black, with a median short, blunt, black process ; lower lamella with a 

 rounded incision in which hangs a pair of rather long, brownish tumid appendages ; 

 ovipositor long, dark brownish-red, upper valves straight, acute ; wings gray with 

 three conspicuous whitish spots, the first incompletely surrounding the stigma and ex- 

 tending across the base of the discal cell into the base of the fourth posterior cell, the 

 second near the distal end of the second basal cell, the third near the middle of the 

 axillary cell ; stigma and a small spot at the base of the prrefurca brown ; costal, sub- 

 costal and the anterior margin of the anal cells with a yellowish tinge ; discal cell a 

 little more than twice as long as wide. Length, male 15 mm., female 23 mm., 

 wing 16 mm. 



Habitat : Battle Creek, Mich., one male, one female. Aldrich. 

 Type no. 188, Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Tipula spectabilis, sp. nov. 



Yellowish ; head cinereous with a narrow median dark line above ; rostrum 

 reddish-yellow ; palpi yellow, apex brown ; antennae reaching nearly to base of 

 abdomen, the first three segments wholly yellow, the next two or three segments 

 yellowish with a brownish tinge, the remaining segments brown, those beyond the 

 third slightly incrassate and darker at the base ; mesonotum light yellowish with 



