Number 55 ^Iay 4, 1918 



OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



Ann Arbor, Michigan Pubi^ished by the University 



A COLLECTION OF TIPULID.t: FROAI SCHOOL- 

 CRAFT COUNTY, MICHIGAN 



By J. Speed Rogers 



The collection upon which the following list is based was 

 made by the writer while he was a member of the Bryant 

 Walker Expedition to Schoolcraft County in the Northern 

 Peninsula of ^Michigan during July, 191 5. \\"hile the writer's 

 main interest was centered on the Tipulidse, yet he attempted 

 to do considerable general collecting of Diptera with the result 

 that a number of species of crane-flies were missed, particu- 

 larly Limnobinse. The region was a very favorable one for 

 the family, and would undoubtedly repay further work. As 

 far as known, this is the first paper devoted entirely to the 

 Tipulidje of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan. 



All the field work was done about a locality known as Flood- 

 wood, situated on the Manistique River some twenty-six miles 

 northeast of the city of Manistique. The surrounding coun- 

 try was largely the typical cut and burned-over pine land of 

 Michigan, undulating sandy plains bearing a scattered growth 



