22 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 
NEW NEARCTIC CRANE-FLIES (TIPULID^, DIPTERA). 
PART II.* 
BY CHARLES P. ALEXANDER, ITHACA. N. Y. 
This paper is a continuation of the first part under this title 
(Can. Ent., vol. XLVIII, pp. 42-53, February, 1916). Unless 
stated otherwise the types of the new species are in the collection 
of the author. 
Family 7 ipulidce. 
Subfamily Lim?iobincp. 
'Tribe Limnobini. 
Genus Dicranomyia Stephens. 
Dicranomyia mel'eicauda, sp. n. 
AntennjE black throughout; thorax dark brown, the mesonotal 
stripes very dark brown, wings with the stigma short, oval, very 
dark brown; abdomen dark brown with the ventral lobes of the 
male hypopygium light yellow. 
Male. — Length 5.8-6.7 mm.; wing 6.5-7.6 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi black. Antenna? black throughout; seg- 
ments of the flagellum uniformly oval. Head black with a very 
sparse, grayish bloom. 
Mcsonotum dark brown with a golden yellow bloom, most ap- 
parent on the lateral margins of the praescutum and the median 
area of the scutum, prsescutal stripes shiny, dark brown, particu- 
larly without pollen; scutellum dark brown, postnotum with a 
dense, yellowish gray bloom. Pleura dark brownish black with a 
grayish bloom on the posterior sclerites, more golden yellow on the 
anterior sclerites. Halteres dark brown, the base of the stem more 
yellowish. Legs with the coxcc brown, sparsely gray pruinose; 
trochanters and femora dull yellow, the latter soon passing into 
dark brown; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wings with a slight 
dusky or grayish tinge; stigma very prominent, oval, dark brown; 
veins dark brown. Venation: Sc short, ending about opposite 
the origin of the sector; Sc2 rather distant from the tip of Sc\, 
this distance about equal to the short, oval stigma; Rs elongate, 
arcuated at origin, more than twice the length of the basal deflec- 
* Contribution from the Entomological l-aboratory of Cornell University. 
January, 1917 
