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Tipula diversa spec. n. 
Large, yellowish-gray. Wings gray, a fuscous dot at origin of R. s. 
and at end of S. c. Veins Cu and Cu? lightly seamed with fuscous. 
Ninth tergite of male with a narrow and moderately deep incision, its 
canthi acute. Lower apical appendages long, narrowly lanceolate, 
divergent and conspicuously extending beyond the ninth sternite. 
Male.—Length 19.5 mm.; wing 19 mm. 
Head: Rostrum yellow,. beset with rather long, black hairs. Three 
basal joints of palpi sordid yellow, terminal joint dark fuscous. Flagellar 
joints of the antennee emarginate above the basal enlargement, joints 
ten and eleven much more attenuate, the last thirteened joint, very 
short; pubescens very fine, white. Face yellowish-white, front and - 
occiput yellowish gray with a distinct median, dark line, extending 
from the tuberosity to the posterior margin; orbicular margin whitish. 
Thorax livid. Pronotal scutum margined with white anteriorly, a 
dark, median line and a dark spot externally. Pronotal scutellum 
whitish above, darker laterally. Lines of prescutum chocolate-brown, 
narrow; the inner pair strongly attenuated in their middle third; the 
median space with an ill-defined, irregular, darker median stripe; the 
space, exterior to the inner lines and exterior to the pale line surrounding 
the outer dark lines, is conspicuously studded with setigerous punctures, 
bearing blackish hairs. Scutum with a smaller, antera-exterior, and an 
elongate, inner, brown spot each side. Scutel and postnotum with 
median, darker line, the postnotum with a lateral, darker spot. Pleura 
yellowish-gray with whitish pruinosity. Wings grayish, more so in the 
apical portion. Cells C. and S. c. concolorous, scarcely a shade darker 
than the general color. A fuscous spot at the beginning of R. s. and at . 
the end of S. c. Antestigmal spot well marked, interrupted immediately 
behind R. s., extends through outer ends of cells R. and M., basal half 
of cell 1st M2, into bases of cells M* and Cul. Veins Cu, Cul and Cu 
lightly seamed with fuscous. Cells R. and M. more erayish along the 
center. Stem of cell M! scarcely one-sixth the length of the cell. Legs 
long and slender, yellowish, with a coarse, short, blackish pubescence, 
femora and tibize infuscate at the apex, the tibize longer than the meta- 
tarsi; tarsi infuscate. 
Abdomen yellowish-brown, lighter basally, segments three to six 
narrowly edged with white posteriorly, a dark-brown dorsal and ventral 
stripe, lateral stripes ill-defined; the whole abdomen hirsute with an 
ill-defined, whitish sheen. Eight sternite with a brush of long, yellow 
hair. Hypopygium (PI. I, Fig. 1), yellowish-brown, darker posteriorly; 
ninth tergite with a broad, deep, basal impression, and narrow, mod- 
erately deep, median incision, its canthi acute, exteriorly to the latter, 
