48 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
small black chitinized point on either side of the middle line con- 
nected transversely. 
Holotype, cf, North Carolina. From the collection of C. \. 
Riley in the United States National Museum. 
Paratypes, 3 cf 's, topotypic. 
The type and a paratype are in the collection of the United 
States National Museum, the remaining paratypes are in the 
collection of the author. 
This species falls in the same group with angustipennis Loew. 
balioptera Loew, centralis Loew, serta hoew,, seplenirionalis Loew, 
etc., from all of which it is easily separated by the structure of the 
male genitalia. 
Tipula texensis, sp. n 
Male — Length n.3-12 5 mm.; wing n.5-15 mm. 
Female — Length 13.4-13.6 mm.; wing 12.5-14 mm. 
Palpi dark brown. Frontal prolongation of the head dark 
brown, with a sparse light gray bloom. Antenna? with the first 
segment yellowish brown, with a sparse grayish bloom; second and 
third segments yellow or brownish yellow, the remaining flagellar 
segments yellow or dark brown basally, the terminal segments 
more uniformly dark brow^n. Head light gray, more yellowish on 
the occiput on either side of the median area; a delicate impressed, 
median, brown, dorsal line. 
Mesonotal prccscutum light gray with dark brown stripes, the 
middle stripe broadly bisected by a vitta of the ground colour, 
which in turn is split medieilly by a delicate brown line; lateral 
stripes almost confluent with the median stripe; scutum light gray, 
the lobes with an oblique brown mark; scutellum grayish testaceous, 
with a very delicate median brown line; postnotum light gray with 
or without a rather indistinct, impressed, median, brown line on 
the caudal fourth of the segment. Pleura light gray, indistinctly 
spotted with brown, the dorso-pleural membrane dull yellow. 
Halteres with the base bright yellow, darkening into brown on the 
knob. Legs yellowy with a grayish white bloom; trochanters yellow; 
femora dull yellow, the apex dark brown; tibia? yellowish brown, 
only a little darkened at the apex; tarsi dark brown. Wings light 
gray, the stigma rectangular, brownish yellow; brownish blotches 
