THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST ?^ 
Genus Crypteria Bergroth. 
Grypteria americana, so. n. 
Body coloration reddish, wings subhyaline, the radial cross- 
vein present. 
Female. — Length 5 mm.; wing 6.4 mm. 
Rostrum brownish yellow; palpi brown. Antennae dark 
brown throughout; fusion segment composed of the first five 
flagellar segments; remaining nine flagellar segments elongate-oval. 
Head clear, light gray. 
Thoracic dorsum reddish with a very sparse whitish l)loom; 
stripes indistinct; a small group of long, black bristles on each side 
of the pronotai scutum, mesonotal pnescutum with a row of similar 
bristles on each side of the broad median area; scutellum more 
yellowish. Pleura yellow, with a sparse, bluish bloom on the 
mesopleurites. Haltercs pale, the knobs a little darker. Legs 
with the coxa and trochanters light yellow; femora light brown, a 
little brighter basally, tibia and metatarsi light brown; remainder 
of tarsi dark brownish black. Wings grayish subhyaline; veins 
dark brown. Venation: Sc\ elongate, ending just beyond the 
radial cross-vein; Sc2 removed from the tip of Sci to a distance 
about equal to the basal deflection of Cuv, Rs elongate, arcuated; 
i?2+3 moderate, a little longer than cell 1st M2; cross- vein r 
present; basal deflection of i?4+5 short; cross- vein r-m long, 
arcuated, cell 1st M2 elongate, pentagonal; cell M very deep, a 
little longer than its petiole; basal deflection of Cm just before the 
middle of cell 1st M2; second anal vein very elongate, subsinuate, 
ending about opposite the middle of the long sector. 
Abdominal tergites brown; sternites light yellow; valves of the 
ovipositor elongate, strongly upcurved. 
Habitat. — Oregon. 
Holotype, 9 , Mt. Angel, Oregon (F. Epper). 
Type in the collection of the United States National Museum. 
This interesting crane-fly is the first described, New World 
representative of the genus. It agrees closely with the genotype, 
C. limnophiloides Bergroth of northern Europe, differing in the 
more reddish body coloration and in certain venational features, 
especially in the retention of the radial cross-vein. 
