Sept. I90O.] Doane: North American Tipulid.i;. I'U 



the tips of all the longitudinal veins ; the largest of these are along the anterior mar- 

 gin, one covering the origin of the praefurca and others at the tips of the auxiliary and 

 the first and second longitudinal veins ; veins brownish ; auxiliary vein ending far 

 beyond the origin of the prrefurca, subcostal cross vein A short distance from its tip ; 

 petiole of first submarginal cell about as long as the posterior cross vein ; five posterior 

 cells ; the second basal cell with a supernumerary cross vein. Length, male 7 mm. ; 

 female 8 mm. ; wing 8.5 mm. 



Ha^ifaf: Wsiwav,'a.\, Wash., one male, three females. (Doane.) 

 Type no. 127. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Limnophila lutea, sp. nov. (PI. VIII, fig. 4.) 



Yellow; head darker yellow, vertex brownish; palpi dark brown; antennse 

 brownish yellow ; thorax wholly ochraceous ; halteres light, knobs slightly infus - 

 cated ; legs tawny ; coxie and basal half of femora yellowish ; abdomen brownish 

 yellow ; wings with a faint yellowish tinge, immaculate ; stigma pale ; veins yellow ; 

 subcostal cross vein at the tip of the auxiliary vein, which is incurved toward the first 

 vein and is opposite the inner end of the second submarginal cell ; pra;furca of mod- 

 erate length about half as long as the first submarginal cell ; marginal cross vein at tip 

 of first longitudinal vein ; petiole of first submarginal cell about equal in length with the 

 posterior cross vein ; inner end of the second submarginal, first posterior and discal 

 cells nearly in one line ; posterior cross vein at or near the middle of the discal cell ; 

 petiole of second posterior cell rather long but not quite as long as the cell itself. 

 Length, male 7 mm. ; wing 9.5 mm. 



Habitat: Pa., six males. (Dietz.) Type no. 128. Wash. 

 Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 

 Limnophila badia, sp. nov. (PI. VIII, fig. 5.) 



Brown ; head brownish gray ; rostrum, palpi and antennae brown ; thorax brown ; 

 pleura hoary ; halteres pale ; legs tawny ; femora lighter at base ; abdomen brown, 

 posterior margin of segments somewhat darker ; wings with a very slight brownish 

 tinge ; stigma pale ; veins brown with a short pubescence in the apical portion of 

 the wing ; tip of the auxiliary vein opposite the inner end of the second submarginal 

 cell which is nearly in line with the inner end of the first posterior cell ; marginal 

 cross vein close to the tip of the first longitudinal vein ; petiole of the first submarginal 

 cell about as long as the posterior cross vein, the latter close to the middle of the dis- 

 cal cell ; petiole of the second posterior cell short. Length, male 10 mm.; female 

 10 mm.; wing 10 mm. 



Habitat: Olympia, Wash., three males, two females. (Kincaid.) 

 Type no. 129. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 

 Limnophila indistincta, sp. nov. (PI. VIII, fig. 6.) 



Brown ; head darker brown ; palpi dark brown ; antennae very light brown ; 

 dorsum of thorax yellowish brown ; pleura darker brown ; halteres pale, knobs slightly 

 infuscated ; legs very light brown ; the tips of the femora and the tibia and the tarsi 

 darker; abdomen brown ; ovipositor ferrugineous ; wings hyaline ; stigma brownish, 



