

IF.NCES OF PI 



NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN CRANEFLIES FROM THE UNITED STATES AND 

 CANADA. TIPULIDJE. DIPTERA. 



BY CHAHI.IOS ir AI.EXANDEl!. 



Durins the past few years the various collectioas of eranellies ia 

 the Eastern L'nited States have been examined l)y the author and 

 observations made upon the more uncommon and less-known species. 

 The following paper deals with the new species discovered, the 

 corrections in synonomy and the geographical distribution of insuf- 

 ficiently known forms. The collections examined are those of the 

 United States National Museum through the kindness of Mr. Knal), 

 The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia through Mr. 

 Cresson, the :Mus(Hun of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge through 

 Mr. Henshaw, the Boston Society of Natural History through Mr. 

 Johnson and the private collections of Dr. W. ' '>. Dietz, Mr. C. ^^ . 

 Johnson, and Mr. M. C. Van Duzee. 



The Loew and Osten Sacken types are in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology (excepting Triogma excujpta Osten Sacken, which 

 is in The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia). Coquillett's 

 types and the Linmobinip described by Doan(> in his first paper are in 

 the National Museum. The species described by Mr. Johnson are in 

 The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the Boston Society 

 of Natural History or in the jirivatc collecti(m of tlie describer. 



Family TIPULIDJE. 



Subfamily LIM^•OBI^^^^. 



Tribe Llmnobini. 



Genus DICRANOMYIA Stephens. 

 1829. Dicranomyia Stephen.-; Cat. Brit. Ins., vol. 2, p. 24.3. 

 Dioranomyia nelliana sp. n. 



Color gray; wings with vein .Sc short; membrane hyaline with 

 abundant brown sjiots and dots. 



Male, length, 5.5 mm.; wing, 7.5 mm. 



Rostrum, palpi and antenna* ilark brown, the segments of the^ 

 antennal fiagcUum rounded oval. Head gray. 



Thoracic dorsum gray, the prajscutum with a large dark brown 

 spot in front whose exact limits Ixihiml are uncertain, due to the 



