8 c Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 



r-m cross-vein connects with vein R b rather than with vein j? 4 -f 5 as in most 

 species of the genus. 



It is a much smaller species than either exoloma or diapkana which have the 

 wings measuring over 10 mm. I am inclined to believe that it is this species 

 that ('oquillett records as dniithami in the Harriman reports, from the following 

 Alaskan localities:- 



Localities: One cf, Yakutat, Alaska, July 21, 1899; one d 1 , Berg bay, June 

 10, 1899; one d% Popof island, July 15, 1899. 



It may be that this represents a still undescribed species of the group. 



I have the following records for T. diaphana: 



Localities: ( )ne 9 , Pullman, Wash., May 4, 1898 type; five cf, 9,Olympia, 

 Wash., March 16, 1896; one cf, Seattle, Wash.; one cf, Vancouver, B.C., March 

 29, 



Subfamfy TIPULINE. 



Tribe TIPULINI. 



Genus Stygeropis Loew. 



Sti/t/<r<>i)ix Loe\v; Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, vol. 7, p. 298; 1863. 



A small genus of northern and Arctic Tipuline crane-flies, occurring in 

 both hemispheres. The generally accepted belief that this genus is closely 

 related to Ctenophora and its allies is entirely erroneous. This is best proved 

 by a study of the immature stages which are very Tipuline in nature, in some 

 respects uniting the Longurio and Tipula types. 



Stygeropis parrii (Kirby). 



C1( nopliora i>wrii Kirby; Supplement to Capt. Parry's First Voyage; 1824. 



MALE. Length, 11-13 mm.; wing, 14-15 mm. 



I 'I:\IALE. Length, 17-5 mm.; wing, 15-8 mm. 



Palpi short, black. Frontal prolongation of the head short, black. 

 Antenna* (PL II, tig. 12) black, the first segment elongate, transversely wrinkled; 

 flagellar segments narrow basally, enlarged distally into a blunt serration on 

 the inner face. Head dull black with a sparse yellowish grey bloom, the sides 

 of the vertex clothed with elongate, pale hairs. 



Thoracic dorsum light grey with three broad, darker grey stripes, the 

 median one broadest anteriorly; thoracic interspaces with an abundance of 

 long, erect hairs; an indistinct, narrow, blackish, median stripe runs the length 

 of the not uni. Pleura grey, the dorso-pleural membrane more yellowish. 

 Halteres brown, the knobs darker. Legs with the coxic and trochanters dark, 

 the former grey pruinose; femora reddish brown, the tips broadly blackened; 

 tibia- and tarsi black. Wings with a slight brownish grey tinge, the costal 

 and subcostal cells more brownish; stigma dark brown; obliterative streak 

 before the cord not very (list inct ; venation (PI. I, fig. 7) R 2 + 3 long, very slightly 

 arcuated at origin; petiole of cell M\ present but often greatly shortened as in 

 parrioides. 



Abdomen dark blue-grey, the segments very narrowly ringed with paler 

 on the caudal margin; lateral margins of the tergites broadly paler. Lobes of 

 the male hypopygium conspicuously yellow; female ovipositor with the tergal 

 valves rather high, narrowly blackened at their tips. Male hypopygium having 

 the ninth tergite (PI. II, fig. 2(>) large 1 , the caudal margin with a very deep, 

 ("-shaped, median notch, the lateral lobes prominent, obliquely truncated; 

 tergite black, the apices of the lobes broadly pale. Ninth pleurite rather exten- 

 sive, the pleural suture indistinct beneath; outer pleura! appendage (PL II, fig. 23) 



