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at the tip; tibite yellowish brown, a little darker at the tip; tarsi 
dark brown. Wings pale brownish gray, the stigma brown, the 
costal cell brownish yellow; wings streaked with hyaline, this 
colour including the basal cells and cell Rh except the tip; cell 1st A 
hyaline, except the broad apex. 
Abdomen brownish gray, clearer gray laterally, the caudal 
margin narrowly brownish yellow; ninth tergite broadly tipped 
with bright yellowish; sternites grayish brown. 
The female is similar to the male, but the antennae are shorter, 
the wings reduced, extending about to the end of the third ab- 
dominal segment; valves of the ovipositor rather short, the tergal 
valves only a little longer than the sternal pair. 
Holotype, d^. Bred from larvae taken at Alvarado, Texas (Hill) ; 
issued March 5, 1881. 
Allotype, 9 , topotypic. 
Pamtypes, cf, 9 's, topotypic; d", Dallas, Texas; April 16, 1906 
(W. D. Hunter). 
The type, allotype and paratypes are in the collection of the 
United States National Museum, additional paratypes in the 
collection of the author. 
This interesting species of the tricolor group was bred from 
larva' received in Washington, February 26, 1881, by Mr. Pergande 
from Mr. Jesse M. Hill, Alvarado, Texas. The specimens were 
given the lot-number 846 and the first fly issued March 5, 1881, 
the last on March 22, 1881 a total of some 13 males and 11 females, 
most of which ^are still in existence. This insect was determined 
as T. eluta Loew with a question by Coquillett, which, however, 
has a long-winged female and the antennas bicolorous. In its 
unicolorous antenna^ it likewise differs from Tipula siibeluta 
Johnson, which has bicolored flagellar segments, as clearly stated 
in the original characterization of the species, although Dr. Dietz's 
key is misleading in this regard. 
Tipula Comanche, sp. n. 
Male — Length 11.2 mm.; wing 12.4 mm. 
Female — Length 10.9 mm.; wing 11 mm. 
Palpi brown. Frontal prolongation of the head rather long, 
light gray, the nasus very short. Antennae with the first segment 
