Vol. XXvii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 343 
New Species of Crane-Flies from the West Indies 
(Tipulidae» Dip.). 
By Charles P. Alexander, Ithaca, New York. 
The material upon which this paper is based is largely the 
property of the American Museum of Natural History and I 
am indebted to the curator, Dr. F. E. Lutz, for the loan of 
the same. 
Subfamily Limnobinae, Tribe Erioptcrini. 
Gonomyia (Leiponeura) helophila, sp. n. (Text figs. 1, 3.) 
Male. — Length, 4.6-5.2 mm.; wing, 5-5.3 mm. Female. — Length, 4.8- 
5.3 mm. ; wing, 5.4-5-7 mm- 
Rostrum and palpi dark brownish black. Antennae with the scape 
dark brownish black below, yellow above ; the flagellum light yellowish 
brown, the terminal segments blackish ; flagellum with an abundant 
pale pubescence and very elongate hairs. Head yellow with a vertical 
brownish mark. 
Pronotum with the scutum yellowish white, broadly grayish brown 
on the dorso-median area ; scutellum light yellow. Mesonotal prae- 
scutum light gray with four light brown stripes; middle stripes elon- 
gate becoming confluent behind and prolonged caudad on the mid-dorsal 
line of the scutum; tuberculate pits far up on the cephalic margin of 
* Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of Cornell Uni- 
versity. 
