210 Journal New York Entomological Society. tVoi. xxi. 



21. Tipiila mocoa new species. 



Size medium (wing, 5, 20 mm.) ; color light brown, thotax with five 

 darker brown lines, the median one narrowest, femora brown, with a con- 

 spicuous yeUow subapical ring, wings hyaline variegated with numerous gray 

 and brown blotches. 



Female, length, about 18 mm.; wing, 20.8 mm. 



Palpi and frontal prolongation of the head dark brown ; antennae with the 

 scapal segments yellowish, first flagellar segment with the basal two thirds 

 light brown, remainder yellow, next five segments with the basal third black, 

 rest yellow, apical flagellar segments dark brownish black ; vertex and occiput 

 dark grayish brown, the region adjoining the eye paler, yellowish. 



Pronotum dark brown, darkest medially. Mesonotal praescutum light brown, 

 with darker brown stripes, the median one very narrow and runs the length of 

 the sclerite ; on cither side of it is a broader brown stripe which bends slightly 

 distad near the middle of the sclerite and then becomes confluent with the 

 median stripe near the suture, in front spreading out and occupying the region 

 in front of the pseudosuture, lateral stripes rather short surrounded by the 

 pale ground color of the praescutum, sides of the sclerite behind rather bright 

 yellowish ; scutum gray, the lobes with two dark brown spots of which the 

 anterior one is the smaller; scutellum and postnotum dull yellow with a 

 narrow brown median line. Pleurae grayish with two large blotches on the 

 raesepipleurae. Halteres brown, the knob a little yellowish. Legs, coxae brown- 

 ish yellow, gray pollinose, trochanters dull yellow, femora dull yellow basally, 

 soon darkening to the tip with a broad yellow subapical ring, tibiae and tarsi 

 brown. Wings hyaline, cell C pale yellowish brown, wings with numerous 

 gray and brown clouds on the disc as follows: a large one at the stigma, at 

 the fork of Cu, in the anal cells, in the middle of cell M, at the origin of Rs 

 and in the middle of cell R ; a gray blotch in the radial cell and clouds at the 

 ends of the longitudinal veins. Venation as in PI. 4, fig. 6. 



Abdominal tergites rich brown with indications of a darker dorsal stripe, 

 pleural region a little browner, especially on the basal segments, stemites yel- 

 lowish brown. Ovipositor with the tergal valves very long and slender, the 

 tips rather obtuse, sternal valves rather long, slender, extending about one 

 half the length of the upper valves. 



Holotype, ?, Valle de las Papas, March 29, 1912. 

 The specific name is that of a native Indian tribe, dwelling on the 

 banks of the upper Caqueta. 



22. Tipula miranha new species. 



Size large (wing, 5. 25 mm. or over) ; color yellowish, thorax with three 

 brown stripes, the median one bisected, abdomen brown or yellowish brown, 

 with three darker brown lines on the tergum and a median one on the sternum, 

 wings infumed with brownish yellow. 



