1912] New Western Tipula 49 
reaching about to middle of upper valves; wings long and broad, brown, 
with whitish spots in all the cells, a spot in the beginning of the basal 
cells, the origin of the preefurca, the stigma, the tip of the seventh vein 
and less distinct spots near the middle of the second basal, anal and 
axillary cells, darker brown; the margin of the wing is marked with 
larger or smaller whitish spots in all the cells; irregular whitish spots in 
the region of the stigma, the discal cell and in the basal anal cells; veins 
brown, some of them with a narrow brown border. Length male 
26 mm., female 33 mm., wing 27 mm. 
ne@bitat: Weer Park. Placer:Co., Cal. (3 males, 2 females: 
(Types). Keyport, Wash. 1 female. 
One of the males is much smaller measuring only 20 mm. 
wing 20 mm. In size and general appearance, this specimen 
looks somewhat like T. abdominalis Say, but the antenna; the 
markings on the thorax and the structure of the hypopygium 
are quite different. 
Tipula californica n. sp. 
Brownish yellow; head yellowish slightly darker above; palpi brown, 
yellowish toward the base; first and second and the basal half of the 
third segments of the antennze yellow, other segments brown, darker at 
the base; dorsum of thorax light brownish yellow with four broad, brown 
stripes; scutellum and metanotum brownish yellow; pleura hoary; 
halteres whitish, knobs brown, tips lighter; legs yellowish, tips of the 
femora, tibia and tarsi darker; abdomen yellowish, brownish posteriorly, 
sides with a distinct broken brown line; posterior margin of eighth 
sternite with a rounded incision, the middle with a short rounded pro- 
jection above which arises two slender pencils of yellow hairs; lateral 
angles with a pair of triangular tooth-like projections which bear a 
fringe of long yellow hairs on their inner margins; ninth tergite with a 
deep median furrow and a rather deep V-shaped incision from the apex 
of which arises a short triangular black-tipped tooth; ninth sternite 
with a very broad, deep U-shaped incision in which hangs a pair of 
large, tumid, yellow-haired appendages; apex of this incision with fine 
short, reddish-yellow hairs which almost conceal two short, conical 
projections; pleural sutures complete; first pair of appendages somewhat 
conical, furnished with rather long, black hairs; second pair broad, 
somewhat flattened edges black; third pair more strongly chitinized, 
oblong, somewhat twisted, ending in a blunt point; wings hyaline with 
a slight brownish tinge particularly in the apex; the stigma and a small 
spot over the tip of the subcostal vein and the beginning of the preefurca, 
brown; veins with an indistinct whitish border; a whitish spot just before 
and just behind the stigma. Length 16 mm., wing 20 mm. 
Habitats Palo Alte:-Cal” ~Z-males; 
