1912] New Neotropical Tipuline Bow 
produced into short obtuse points; valves of the ovipositor very short, 
divergent, the basal piece longer than the tips; lower valves (see Fig. 
wi, /); very short, broad at the base, truncated at the tip. 
Holotype, 9, Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil (H. H. Smith). 
Type in Am. Mus. of Nat. History. 
This handsome species is named in honor of the pioneer 
collector, Mr. Herbert H. Smith. 
Tipula inca, sp. n. 
Grey; wings indistinctly spotted; legs short, stout. 
o& Length, 11.5 mm.; wing, 13.4 mm.; antennz, about 8.5 mm. 
Fore leg, 21 mm.; middle leg, fem. 6.8 mm.; tibia, 5.6 mm.; tarsus, 
6.5 mm; hind leg, fem. 7.8 mm.; tibia, 8.3 mm.; tarsus, 7.9 mm. 
Head: Anterior prolongation of the front white, very pale, with 
numerous brown hairs on the distal half above; nasus not prominent; 
palpi brown, first segment light brown, shorter than the second, slender; 
second, paler brown basally, greatly thickened distally; 3d segment 
again slender except at the base; 4th very irregular, brown, except at 
the extreme base where it 1s yellowish; mouth parts dark brown. Anten- 
ne, Ist segment short, much thickened distally; 2nd short; 3d one and 
one-half the length of the Ist; remainder very flexible, elongated, at 
the basis armed with four or five strong, black hairs, the whole surface 
covered with a fine pubescence. Basal segment light yellow, somewhat 
darker at tip; 2d brownish-yellow; 3d silvery greyish-brown; remainder 
light brown. Front pale silvery-white; vertex and occiput grey with a 
dark brown median line beginning between the antenne, running 
caudad. Head closely applied to the prothorax. 
Thorax: Pronotum silvery-grey, medially with a broad brown 
stripe. Mesonotum, grey with a very narrow dark brown median line, 
broadest before, gradually narrowing toward the suture, lateral mar- 
gins of prescutum dark brown except extreme edge; between this 
brown and the median stripe, an indistinct pale brown stripe on the 
caudal half, ending at the suture; scutum, grey medially, yellowish on 
the sides; scutellum grey, a large flattened brown area on the sides 
above the wing-roots; post-notum grey, brownish medially and on the 
sides. Pleurze and sterna silvery-whitish, tinged with grey. Halteres 
long, yellowish. Legs short, stout, femora somewhat incrassated at 
tip, pale yellowish-brown, tip rather darker; tibia and tarsi brown. 
Wings: MHyaline, cells C and Sc tinged with yellow; stigmal area 
pale greyish; a vague grey suffusion around cross-vein m and on outer 
deflection of M3; caudal third of cell M along vein Cu, grey, this also 
continuing onto Cu, and Cu, as a very narrow seam; cells of wing 
in vicinity of anterior (cephalic) half of the cord, greyish; two pale 
clouds in base of cell Cu; margin of anal angle grey. Venation as in 
Bigs. 
Abdomen: Pale brownish-yellow; middle of Ist tergite brown, 
which color continues back over the succeeding three segments as a 
narrow line; sternites brownish-yellow, the sclerites at pleural margin 
