1912] Neio Neotropical Tipulince 351 



produced into short obtuse points; valves of the ovipositor very short. 

 divergent, the basal piece longer than the tips; lower valves (see Fig- 

 Wi, I) ; very short, broad at the base, truncated at the tip. 



Holotype, 9 , Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil (H. H. Smith). 



Type in Am. Mus. of Nat. History. 



This handsome species is named in honor of the pioneer 

 collector, Mr. Herbert H. Smith. 



Tipula inca, sp. n. 



Grey; wings indistinctly spotted; legs short, stout. 



cf Length, 11.5 mm.; wing, 13.4 mm.; antennEe, about 8.5 mm. 



Fore leg, 21 mm.; middle leg, fern. 6.8 mm.; tibia, 5.6 mm.; tarsus, 

 6.5 min.; hind leg, fern. 7.8 mm.; tibia, 8.3 mm.; tarsus, 7.9 mm. 



Head: Anterior prolongation of the front white, very pale,_ with 

 niunerous bromi hairs on the distal half above; nasus not prominent; 

 palpi bro\\Ti, first segment light brown, shorter than the second, slender; 

 second, paler browm basally, greatly thickened distally; 3d segment 

 again slender except at the base; 4th very irregular, brown, except at 

 the extreme base where it is yellowish; mouth parts dark brown. Anten- 

 na;, 1st segment short, much thickened distally; 2nd short; 3d one and 

 one-half the length of the 1st; remainder very flexible, elongated, at 

 the basis anned with four or five strong, black hairs, the whole surface 

 covered with a fine pubescence. Basal segment light yellow, somewhat 

 darker at tip; 2d browniish-yellow ; 3d silvery greyish-brown; remainder 

 light bro\\Ti. Front pale silvery-wliite; vertex and occiput grey with a 

 dark brown median line beginning between the antennae, nmning 

 caudad. Head closely applied to the pro thorax. 



Thorax: Pronotum silvery-grey, medially with a broad_ brown 

 stripe. Alesonottun, grey wnth a very narrow dark brown median line, 

 broadest before, gradually narrowing toward the suture, lateral mar- 

 gins of pnescutum dark bro^vn except extreme edge; between this 

 browTi and the median stripe, an indistinct pale brown stripe on the 

 caudal half, ending at the .suture; scutum, grey medially, yellowish on 

 the sides; scutellum grey, a large flattened brown area on the sides 

 above the wing-roots; post-notum grey, brownish medially and on the 

 sides. Pleurce and sterna silvery-whitish, tinged with grey. Halteres 

 long, yellowish. Legs short, stout, femora somewhat incrassated at 

 tip, pale vellowish-brown, tip rather darker; tibiae and tarsi brown. ^ 



Wings: Hyaline, cells C and Sc tinged with yellow; stigmal area 

 pale greyish; a vague grey suffusion around cross-vein m and on outer 

 deflection of .I/3; caudal third of cell M along vein Cu, grey, this also 

 continuing onto Cih and C112 as a very narrow seam; cells of v\4ng 

 in vicinity of anterior (cephalic) half of the cord, greyish; two pale 

 clouds in base of cell Cu; margin of anal angle grey. Venation as in 

 Fig; c. 



Abdomen: Pale brownish-yellow; middle of 1st tergite brown, 

 which color continues back over the succeeding three segments a.s a 

 narrow line; stemites brownish-yellow, the sclerites at pleural margin 



