1914.] NATIHAL SCIENCKS OF IMllLADKM'MIA. (i05 



tip of /»',. In tills wise A'l is quite short, cxtciiiliiifi (inly ii slight 

 distance Ijcyond the forlv of the riuliid sector, anil tlie cross-vein r 

 is very long and sinuilates a section of vein R, ending at the outer 

 part of the stigma; according to this interpretation, /fi would l)e 

 separate, but usually very indistinct or lacking, lU is atrophied at 

 its tip except in two species of Phalacrocera {replicata and neoxena)^ 

 whereas the vein hitherto considered as being Rx^i^, is really R, 

 alone. This latter explanation of thesi; veins of the radial field is 

 probal)ly the correct one. 



Subfamily TIIMLIXK. 

 Tribe Tipulini. 



V Genus LONGURIO T-oow. 



1869. Lomjurio Loow; Bcrl. Ent. Zoitsc-hr., vol. 13, p. :i. 

 Longurio minimus up. n.l 



Size small (wing under IS mm.): wings with cell -l/i long-pet iolate. 



Male, length, 21 mm.; wing, 1-1.(5 mm.; abdomen, 17.G mm. 



Female, length, 27 mm.; wing, 16.4 mm.; abdomen, 22 mm. 



Frontal prolongation of the head very short, yellowish, the nasus 

 elongate, prominent. Palpi and mouth parts brown. Antennae 

 short, light yellow, the flagellar segments gradually decreasing in 

 size from the base outward. Eyes rather large, metallic, the front 

 between them narrowed. Head yellowish brown. 



Thoracic dorsum brownish yellow, the stripes indistinct in 

 alcoholic material. Pleurae dull yellow. Halteres yellow, the knob 

 a little darker. Legs, coxae and trochanters dull light yellow, femora 

 and tiljiae brownish yellow broadly brown at the tip, tarsi brown. 

 Wings with a pale brown suffusion, stigma prominent, a narrow brown 

 seam along the cord; venation (PI. XXVII, fig. 32): petiole of cell 

 ,¥, nearly as long as the cell itself. 



Abdominal tergites dull yellow, 7 to 9 dark brown, steruites light 

 yellow, each segment with an elongate brown suljterminal median 

 mark, on the 6th and 7th segments covering the caudal (nid of the 

 segment, 8th sternite dark brown, paler caudally, hyi)opygium 

 brown. 



Holotype, (f, Tallulah Falls, Rabun Co., (la., June 17, 1010 

 (J. C. Bradley). 

 Allotype, 9 , topotypic. 

 Paratype, cf , topotypic. 



I am referring this iasect to Longurio, although it does not agree 

 with Longurio testaceus Loew, the genotype, in some respects. L. 



