256 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., '14 



Genus Tipula Linnaeus. 

 Tipula gladiator sp. n. (PI. XV, figs. 6, 7). 



Antennae of the male elongate, basal segments yellow, flagellum 

 dark brown; thorax dark grayish brown; wings dull j'ellowish; 8th 

 sternite of the S genitalia produced caudad into a long curved sabre- 

 like appendage. 



Male. — Length, 16.2 mm.; wing, 14 mm. 



Palpi with the basal segments a little darker than the dull yellow 

 apical segments; frontal prolongation of the head short, nasus dis- 

 tinct, darker brown above, more yellowish beneath and on the sides ; 

 antennae elongate, if bent backward extending about to the 3rd ab- 

 dominal segment; segments i and 2 light yellow, flagellar segments 

 dark brown covered with short pale hairs; the segments not cylin- 

 drical, but feebly incised on the lower face; head gray, a little clearer 

 on the occiput. 



Pronotal scutum dark brown bordered with gray. Mesonotal prae- 



scutum brown with indistinct darker brown stripes of which the me- 



_dian one is double; scutum brownish gray; scutellum brown; post- 



notum light gray. Pleurae pale with a clear light gray bloom on the 



mesopleurae. Halteres brown, pale at the base. 



Legs, coxae pale yellow with a sparse grayish bloom, most pro- 

 nounced on the fore coxae; trochanters dull yellow; remainder of 

 legs broken. 



Wings with a brownish yellow suffusion; stigma oval, brown. 

 Venation as in Plate XV, figure 6. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown ; a large triangular yellow blotch 

 on the sides of the second segment on the caudal half ; genitalia yel- 

 lowish; two basal sternites dull yellow, ^-7 dark brown. Hypopygium: 

 Eighth tergite broad ; 8th sternite with the caudal margin produced 

 backward in a long curved appendage, much exceeding the remaining 

 parts of the hypopygium ; its dorsal face concave, the appendage 

 sparsely clothed with short appressed hairs. Ninth tergite with a 

 .blunt lobe on the caudal margin on either side of the concave median 

 portion, the latero-caudal angles produced backward into long, slen- 

 der, chitinized spines which are directed caudad and slightly ventrad ; 

 9th sternite small. Appendages which seem to come from the pleural 

 region are : first, a ventral appendage, irregular, rather chitinized 

 apically, its dorsal margin near the tip with a rounded notch ; second 

 appendage, above the first, a sharp, heavily chitinized spine directed 

 caudad ; third appendage, large, feebly chitinized, its apex notched 

 (possibly median in position as it seems to be unpaired) ; fourth, 

 dorsad of these three appendages and just underneath the spines of 

 the 9th tergite is a sub-fleshy lobe more chitinized apically, clothed 

 with long delicate hairs (not shown in the figure). Lateral aspect 

 of the hypopygium shown in Plate XV, figure 7. 



