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



Tipula abluta, sp. nov. 



Brown ; head brown, darker above ; rostrum and palpi yellowish-brown, latter 

 darker at the tip ; first two segments of antennce yellow, others brown ; mesonotum light 

 brown with four brown stripes, the median pair incompletely separated anteriorly ; coUare 

 yellowish-brown with three brown spots ; scutellum, metanotum, pleura, and coxae 

 reddish-brown ; dorsopleural membrane brown ; halteres brown, tips lighter ; legs 

 brownish- yellow, tips of femora, tibia and tarsi brown ; abdomen yellowish-brown, 

 darker posteriorly, with lateral brown stripes ; posterior and lateral margins of each 

 segment yellowish ; eighth and ninth segments separated by a deep furrow above ; 

 eighth tergite with two very short, blunt points near the median line ; lateral margins 

 of the ninth tergite drawn out into a blunt point posteriorly ; ninth sternite divided by 

 a deep quadrate incision ; base of ovipositor very stout, upper valves rather short, red- 

 dish-brown, slightly arcuated, with a deep dorso-lateral groove ; lower valves a little 

 stouter than the upper, acute ; wings very similar to T. contamiitnta, but narrower 

 and somewhat darker with a faint brownish spot in the middle of the discal cell and 

 a still fainter spot in the posterior margin of the second basal cell opposite the origin 

 of the prrefurca. Length, female 22 mm., wing 21 mm. 



Habitat: Colo., one female. Morrison. Type no. 191, Wash. 

 Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Tipula varia, sp. nov. 



Yellow ; head yellowish-brown with a median brown stripe above ; rostrum and 

 palpi yellow, last joipt of the latter brown ; antenna: of female reaching half way to 

 base of wings, yellow, segments beyond the fifth dark at base ; mesonotum light 

 yellow with four brown stripes ; scutellum and metanotum reddish-brown ; pleura and 

 dorsopleura membrane yellowish ; halteres yellow, knobs brown, lighter at the tip ; 

 legs yellowish, tips of femora, tibia and tarsi brown ; abdomen brownish-yellow with 

 three brown stripes ; ninth abdominal tergite almost concealed beneath the eighth ; 

 eighth and ninth sterna and the lower base of the ovipositor fused together, light 

 yellow ; upper base of ovipositor reddish-brown, somewhat cylindrical from above ; 

 valves of ovipositor reddish-brown, the upper ones straight, slender tips rounded ; 

 lower valves shorter, broader and more blunt at the tips ; wings tinged with brown, 

 apex somewhat darker ; a brown spot in the anterior margin of the first basal cell 

 nearly opposite the tip of the seventh longitudinal vein ; darker spots over the stigma 

 and the origin of the praefurca and much fainter spots at the tip of the posterior branch 

 of the second vein and over the base of the second submarginal and first posterior 

 cells ; an incomplete whitish band beginning in front of the stigma and extending 

 across the base of the discal cell into the base of the fourth posterior cell ; a whitish 

 spot beyond the stigma, and a very faint whitish streak just beyond the tip of the 

 seventh vein ; discal cell more than three times as long as wide. Length, female 19 

 mm., wing 19 mm. 



Habitat: Seattle, one female. (Type) Olympia, Wash., one 

 female. Kincaid. Type no. 192, Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



