Sept. igoQ.] Doane: North American TiPULiDiE. 195 



Habitat: Pullman, Wash., two males. (Doane.) Type no. 138. 

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



Amalopis vitripennis, sp. nov. (PI. VIII, fig. 15.) 



Brown ; head brown ; rostrum and palpi darker ; antennae light brown, basal 

 segments somewhat darker ; thorax grayish brown with three brown stripes, the median 

 one divided ; halteres pale ; legs brownish yellow ; tarsi and tips of the tibia darker ; 

 abdomen brown ; forceps of male also brown ; ovipositor ferrugineous ; wings hyaline ; 

 veins and stigma brown ; first submarginal cell much longer than the second ; five 

 posterior cells ; discal cell closed ; small cross vein nearly as long as the posterior 

 cross vein, slightly arcuated. Length, male 8 mm.; female 9 mm.; wing n mm. 



Habitat: Wawawai, Wash., one male, one female. (Type.) 

 (Doane.) Olympia, Wash., two males, two females. (Kincaid. ) 

 Type no. 139. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Amalopis disphana, sp. nov. (PI. VIII, fig. 16.) 



Brown ; head brown ; vertex, palpi and antenna: darker brown ; thorax grayish 

 brown, with three distinct broad brown stripes ; halteres pale ; knob infuscated ; 

 legs brown ; base of femora lighter ; abdomen dark grayish brown ; male genitalia 

 darker brown ; ovipositor ferrugineous ; wings with a brownish tinge ; veins and 

 stigma brown ; first submarginal cell but little longer than the second ; anterior cross 

 vein short, connecting the third and fourth longitudinal veins ; five posterior cells ; 

 discal cells closed. Length, male 8 mm., female 9 mm.; wing 11 mm. 



Habitat: Pullman, Wash., one female. (Type). (Doane.) 

 Olympia, Wash., four males, one female. Seattle, Wash., one male. 

 (Kincaid.) Type no. 140. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Amalopis ampla, sp. nov. (PI. VIII, fig. 17.) 



Ochraceous ; head brown ; rostrum and palpi darker brown ; antennas reddish 

 brown ; first segment more yellowish ; thorax ochraceous, with three brownish 

 stripes, the median one is very broad and distinct, usually divided ; the lateral ones 

 are less distinct, sometimes being indicated only on the back of the suture ; halteres 

 pale, knobs slightly infuscated; legs yellowish; the tarsi and the tips of the tibia and 

 the femora brown; abdomen light brown, with a short golden yellow pubescence ; 

 posterior and lateral margin of each segment, and the forceps of the male yellow ; 

 the single female that I have before me has a much lighter, almost yellowish abdo- 

 men with a darker brown stripe along the middle ; ovipositor ferrugineous ; wings, 

 especially in the anterior portion, with a brownish tinge ; veins brown with a short 

 pubescence in the apical portion ; praefurca with a stump of a vein at its origin ; the 

 first submarginal cell longer than the second ; the second posterior cell petiolate ; 

 posterior cross vein near the base of the discal cell. Length, male 20 mm., female 

 24 mm.; wing 17 mm. 



Habitat : Seattle, Wash., eight males, one female. (Piper). Type 

 no. 141. Wash. Agric. Coll. & S. of S. 



Very like A. cakar but nearly twice the size and darker. 



