Sept. igoo.] DoaNE: NoRTH AMERICAN TlPULID^. 187 



Habitat: Tokeland, Wash., one female (type). Collins, Ida., 

 one male. (Doane.) Type no. ii6. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Dicranoptycha borealis, sp. nov. (PI. VII, fig. 15.) 



Brownish yellow ; head yellowish brown ; palpi and the first two segments of an- 

 tennae brown, remaining segments of antenna: pale yellow, darker at the base ; tho- 

 rax yellow^ dorsum with three rather broad brown stripes ; pleura with a hoary reflec- 

 tion ; metanotum with a brownish tinge ; halteres pale yellow ; lighter toward the 

 base ; legs yellow ; femora with a brown ring at the tip and another a short distance 

 before the tip ; last segment of the tarsi brown ; abdomen yellowish brown ; wings 

 rather broad with a yellowish or brownish tinge ; small rather faint brownish spots at 

 the origin of the prsefurca, at the tip of the auxiliary vein, at the tip of the first longi- 

 tudinal vein, and over all the cross veins ; veins yellowish, those in the apical portion 

 faintly margined with brown. Length, male 9 mm.; wing 11 mm. 



Habitat: Unalaska, one male. (Kincaid.) Type no. 117. 

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



Rhypholophus fusiformis, sp. nov. (PI. VII, fig. 16.) 



Light brown ; head grayish brown; palpi brown; first two joints of antenna 

 yellowish, others light brown, fusiform, with a rather long fine dense whitish pubes- 

 cence ; thorax uniformly brown ; halteres pale yellow, almost white ; abdomen brown 

 with a long rather dense golden yellow pubescence ; wings rather broad with a brown- 

 ish tinge, discal cell closed ; sixth and seventh veins widely divergent toward the tip ; 

 a very faint brownish tinge in the region of the stigma ; prrefurca very long, arising 

 at a sharp angle with the first vein some distance before the middle of the wing ; 

 posterior cross vein at the base of the discal cell ; inner end of the discal cell very 

 narrow; hairs on the wing rather short and sparse. Length, male 3.5 mm.; wing 

 5 mm. 



Habitat: Collins, Ida., one male. (Piper.) Type no. 118. 

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



Rhypholophus manicatus, sp. nov. (PI. VII, fig. 17.) 



Brown ; head and its appendages brown ; antennae with rather long verticels, first 

 two segments paler than the rest ; thorax brown ; pleilra, and sometimes the meta- 

 notum, with a hoary reflection ; halteres brown, whitish toward base ; legs brown ; 

 femora somewhat lighter toward base ; abdomen brown with a golden yellow pile ; 

 wings with a brownish tinge somewhat darker in the region of the stigma ; discal 

 cell open, coalescing with the third posterior cell ; veins brown, sixth and seventh 

 widely divergent toward the tip ; prrefurca arising before the middle of the wing ; 

 posterior cross vein at the base of the discal cell ; hair on the wings rather long and 

 dense. Length, male 4.5 mm. ; female 4.5 mm. ; wing 5 mm. 



Habitat : Collins, Ida., three males, one female. (Piper.) Type 

 no. 1x9. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



