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Mesonotal privscutuni light gray lateralh', the stripes reddish 
l^rown, narrowly margined with brown, median stripe narrowly 
bisected by a dark i)rown vitta, the interspaces dark; scutum 
reddish brown; scutellum and postnotum yellowish brown. Pleura 
brownish yellow, the posterior half, including the coxa? of the 
middle and hing legs, white pruinose. Halteres light brown, 
the knobs brown. Legs wath the trochanters yellow^ the fore 
coxai darker; femora dark brown, the basal portion brighter, 
tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wings like those of T. tricolor; red- 
dish gray, the costal region darker, a broad, pale streak in cell M 
and the anal angle paler; hyaline obliterativ'e streak interrupted 
before the stigma. 
Abdomen reddish yellow, the sides of the basal segments more 
yellowish, the terminal segments a little darker, the caudal margins 
of the segments very narrowly silvery. Male hypopygium with 
the ninth tergite produced caudally into an elongate median lobe, 
rounded across its tip which is darkened; no pencil of reddish 
bristles near the base of this lobe as in tricolor. 
Habitat.- — Eastern United States. 
Holotype.— &, Difificult Run, Virginia, July 25, 1915, (Alex- 
ander). 
Allotype.— 9 , Falls Church, Virginia, Sept. 26, 1915, (McAtee). 
Paratopotypes. — 2 d^s; paratype. — o^, Beltsville, Maryland. 
Aug. 8, 1915, (McAtee); cf, Stone Mt., Georgia, Aug. 3, 1913, 
(J. Chester Bradley); d", Ithaca, New York, Aug. 26, 1914, (Alex- 
ander). 
Type in the collection of the author. 
Similar to T. tricolor, but the entire body much more yellow, 
the thoracic stripes more reddish, the abdomen reddish yellow 
with the terminal tergites scarcely darkened; ninth tergite of the 
male without a pencil of hairs on either side of the median lobe. 
T. fraterna is smaller, the thoracic stripes brownish gray, sides of 
the abdominal segments broadly infuscated and the femoral tips 
brown. 
Tipula aprilina, sp. n. 
Dejecta group; closely resembling T. dejecta Walker, except 
in the male hypopygium. 
