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collare grayish-brown, darker laterally ; scutellum and metanotum brownish with a 

 median brown line ; dorsopleural membrane whitish ; plem-a gray, hoary ; halteres 

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

 abdomen brown with two broad, interrupted, brown, lateral stripes ; posterior and 

 lateral margins of each segment except the last two grayish or yellowish ; eighth 

 segment wholly light brown ; ninth tergite blackish, lateral margins produced pos- 

 teriorly into short blunt points ; ovipositor dark reddish- brown, upper valves very 

 slightly arcuated, rounded at the tip ; lower valves reaching nearly half way to tip of 

 upper valves ; wings whitish hyaline with brown markings along the costa and veins ; 

 the brown costal border reaching posteriorly to the fourth vein in the middle portion 

 of the wing and to the third vein in the apical portion, interrupted before the stigma 

 by a broad whitish hyaline band ; fifth vein and great cross vein broadly, others nar- 

 rowly, bordered with brown, border of sixth and seventh veins faint ; all the posterior 

 cells brown margined, base of first brown ; discal cell four times as long as wide, im- 

 maculate. Length, male i6 mm., wing 17 mm. 



Habitat: Palo Alto, Cal., one female. Doane. Type no. 196, 

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



Tipula decora, sp. nov. 



Brown ; head cinereous with a median dark brown line above ; rostrum and palpi 

 yellow, latter darker toward the apex ; antennae of male reaching beyond the base of 

 the abdomen, first three segments yellow, others dark brown, darker at the base, seg- 

 ments beyond the third very slightly incrassate at base ; mesonotum light gray with 

 three very broad brown stripes each divided by a faint narrow grayish line ; collare 

 brownish, with three brown spots ; scutellum and metanotum yellowish-brown, each 

 with a narrow brown stripe, the latter with two brown spots on the posterior margin ; 

 dorsopleural membrane light yellowish ; pleura hoary ; mesopleura and sternopleura 

 slate-colored, rest lighter gray ; halteres yellow, knobs brown ; legs brown, base of 

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

 yellow, brown posteriorly, with three brown stripes, the lateral ones indistinct, broken ; 

 posterior margin of each segment yellowish ; hypopygium small, very dark brown ; 

 upper lamella with a very small incision ; lower lamella with a deep rather broad 

 incision, appendages lighter brown ; wings brownish with whitish spots and a 

 crescent-shaped subapical whitish band, the latter beginning in the costa beyond the 

 stigma and extending through the fourth posterior cell to the margin of the wing ; 

 two large whitish spots in the second basal cell, smaller fainter spots in the anal and 

 axillary cells and before the stigma ; stigma brown ; base of second submarginal and 

 first posterior cells and all that portion of the wing beyond the whitish band brown. 

 Length, male 12 mm., wing 14 mm. 



Habitat : Montreal, Can., one male. Chagnon. Type no. 197, 

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



Tipula subtenuicorni.s, sp. nov. 



Brown ; head brownish-yellow ; rostrum and palpi yellow ; antennae reaching 

 to the base of the third abdominal segment, first two segments and the extreme base 



