136 inse;cutor insciti^ menstruus 



hairs and including one very long slender bristle on each side. 



Holotype, male, North Carolina. (From the collection of 

 C. V. Riley.) 



Type, Cat. No. 19985, U. S. Nat. Mus. ^ 



Tipula winnemana, new species. 



Male. — Length, 19.5 mm. ; wing, 22.8 mm. 



Female. — Length, 20 mm. ; wing, 20.5 mm. 



Palpi dark brown, the tips of the segments somewhat paler. 

 Frontal prolongation of the head quite short, light brown. An- 

 tennse rather short, the two basal segments dull yellow; the 

 third segment light brown, passing into dark brown at the 

 apex; remainder of the antennas dark brownish black. Head 

 yellowish brown, the inner margin of the eyes narrowly gray- 

 ish ; a delicate, indistinct, brown median vitta. 



Pronotum light gray, the scutum with three broad brownish 

 stripes ; scutelium light grayish white. Mesonotal prsescutum 

 dull brownish yellow with three indistinct stripes, the median 

 one very broad, narrowed behind, indistinctly bisected by a 

 paler vitta; lateral stripes more grayish, reduced in area; the 

 thoracic interspaces vv^ith abundant long yellow hairs ; scutum 

 yellowish brown with a slight grayish bloom, densely provided 

 with long yellow hairs and with two small areas unfurnished 

 with hairs ; scutelium and postnotum brownish yellow. Pleura 

 pale with a sparse grayish white bloom. Plalteres yellow, the 

 knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxae pale, whitish pollinose ; 

 trochanters dull yellow ; femora yellowish brown, the apex 

 narrowly dark brown ; tibiae and tarsi brown. Wings light 

 gray, the costal region and seams along veins Cu and 2nd Anal 

 yellow ; stigma and the veins dark brown ; a broad vitreous 

 band before the cord extending into the base of cell M^. 



Abdominal tergites dull brownish yellow, indistinctly and 

 narrowly trivittate with dark brown ; sternites yellowish brown. 

 Hypopygium with the ninth tergite black, deeply notched me- 

 dially, in the type-specimen the lateral angles bent strongly 

 ventrad ; ninth pleurite complete ; ninth sternite bearing a sub- 

 pendulous lobe which is practically hairless, tapering toward 



