\^ol. Xxix] ENTOMOLOGICAL XEWS 285 



New Species of Crane-flies from California (Dip.). 



By Charles P. Alexander, Kansas University, Lawrence, 



Kansas. 



The following new species of crane-flies were included in 

 a collection of undetermined material sent to me for nam- 

 ing through the kindness of Mr. Millard C. \"anDuzee, to 

 whom I am indebted for this, as well as many other favors in 

 the past. 



The types are in the writer's collection. 



Family T.a.nvderidae. 

 Protoplasa vanduzeei sp. n. 



Size small (wing under seven mm.) ; wing long and narrow, spotted 

 and clouded with grayish, the pattern heaviest on the anterior half of 

 the wing, including the entire costal cell. 



(t . Length about 5 mm.; wing 6.3 mm.; greatest width of the wing 

 1.2 mm. 



Rostrum brown ; mouth parts and palpi dark brown. x\ntennae dark 

 brown, short, apparently i6-segmented, the segments with pale hairs. 

 Head light brown with a dark brown dorso- median line. 



Pronotum brownish. Mesonotal praescutum light grayish-brown 

 with three brown stripes, the middle stripe broad, split by a narrow- 

 pale line; lateral stripes less distinct; remainder of the mesonotum 

 grayish-brown ; the scutellum fringed with about 15 long hairs. Pleura 

 light grayish-brown. Halteres dark brown, the extreme base and the 

 stem paler. Legs with the coxae and trochanters pale yellowish-brown, 

 sparsely gray pruinose ; femora pale yellowish-brown, the apices dark- 

 er ; tibiae pale brown tipped with darker ; tarsi dark brown. 



Wings long and narrow, subhyaline with a heavy gray pattern, as 

 follows: costal cell: large clouds at the base of cells R and M, at the 

 base of Rs, along the cord and at the fork of veins R2+3; most of 

 these markings lie on the anterior half of the wing, those on the pos- 

 terior half located at the wing margin at the ends of the longitudinal 

 veins and scattered along the veins as rounded spots. Venation : all 

 veins long and slender, conforming to the extreme narrow shape of 

 the wing; m-cu cross-vein obliterated; anal angle of the wing not as 

 di.stinct as usual in the genus. 



Abdominal tergites light brown basally, dark brown on the apical 

 half, the extreme caudal margin narrowly ringed with pale ; sternites 

 paler. Hypopygium with the pleural appendages orange, bi-lobed, the 

 dorsal lobe elongate, slender, the ventral lobe short, stout, obtusely 

 rounded. 



