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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 415 



A Bromeliad-Inhabiting Crane-fly (.Tipulidae, Dipt.) 

 By CnAS. P. ALEXANoiiR, Ithaca, N. Y.* 

 To the rather long list of inhabitants of the Neotropical epi- 

 phytic, water-bearing Bromeliaceous plants, (as given by Dr. 

 Calvert in EiN'tomological News, Nov., 191 i, pp. 4>ij-4II), 

 there should be added the family Tipulidac. 1 have recently re- 

 ceived specimens of a Costa Rican Mongoma that were brtd 

 from Bromeliads by Sr. C. Picado. I am indebted to Mr. Fred- 

 erick Knab, of the U. S. National ]\Iuseiun, for the privilege 

 of examining these specimens. 



Mongoma bromeliadicola sp. n. 



Brown ; thorax indistinctly striped ; femora with a subapical black- 

 ring; apices of femora and tibix and bases of the tibis, white. 



Length, $ , 7.4 mm. ; 9 , 84-9.2 mm. 



Wing, S, 7.6 mm.; 9, 8.5-9.2 mm. 



Legs all detached and almost impossible to separate ; femora. 8.4- 

 9.8 mm.; tibia, 7.6- 10. i mm.; tarsus, 7.2-8.9 mm. What is probably 

 the fore-leg measures, femora, 8.4 mm.; tibia, lo.i mm.; tarsus. 8.9 

 mm. Middle leg: supp. 9-9 mm., tibia 76-8.1 mm., tarsus 7.2-7.3 mm. 

 Hind leg, supp., femora 9.6-9.8 mm., tibia 98-9.4 mm. 



Head : rostrum and palpi yellowish-brown ; antennae dark brown 

 the basal segments rather paler; front vertex and occiput light brown- 



♦Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of Cornell Uni- 



