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brown ; tibiae and tarsi brown. Wings hyaline or nearly so, the 

 costal region and the stigma light yellow ; veins brown ; a vitre- 

 ous band before the cord, extending from the end of vein Sc, 

 brightest and largest before the stigma, passing into the basal 

 portion of cell M^ ; very little or none of the vitreous area be- 

 yond the stigma. 



Abdominal tergites yellow without distinct darker markings, 

 the caudal margins of the segments narrowly ringed with sil- 

 very; sternites bright yellow, on segments 6 to 8 rather more 

 brownish. Hypopygium with the ninth tergite moderate in 

 size, the lateral angles conspicuous, directed caudad and slightly 

 proximad, the apices bluntly rounded and the margin narrowly 

 chitinized; the median lobe broad, highly convex to obtusely 

 pointed, shiny chestnut brown to yellow; ninth pleurite large, 

 complete; outer pleural appendage somewhat spatulate with a 

 very narrow base, the knobs clothed with sparse elongate hairs ; 

 eighth sternite rather extensive, the caudal margin broadly 

 concave with a brush of long golden hairs on each side of the 

 base of the concavity and slightly smaller tufts behind them, 

 these hairs concealing a very long, delicate, decussate, reddish 

 bristle. 



Holotype, male, Georgia. 



Paratype, male, topotypic ; male, New Rochelle, New York ; 

 male, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Type, Cat. No. 19984, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



The topotypic and the New York paratypes are in the col- 

 lection of the author. The Massachusetts paratype is in the 

 collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The New 

 York specimen appeared in the Loew collection of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology under the manuscript name of "in- 

 ornata" in Loew's writing; the specimen has the antennal fla~ 

 gellum very pale, more yellowish than the type. The Massa- 

 chusetts specimen is the largest and here the antennal flagel- 

 lum is a very dark brown. 



Tipula catavi^ba, new species. 



Male. — Length, 12.8 mm. ; wing, 13.7 mm. 



Palpi with the first segment pale brownish testaceous, the 



