148 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Apr., '17 



From aspidoptera Alexander and vicina sp. n., by the pale 

 median mesonotal line. 



Two specimens, males, in my collection from La Junta, Col- 

 orado (E. J. Oslar), I refer to this species, though apparently 

 differing. The head and thorax are dark brown, the mesonotal 

 stripes black. This difference in color is due to the process of 

 preservation. The abdominal stripes extend upon the seventh 

 tergite. 



Respectfully dedicated to Mr. Charles P. Alexander. 



Tipula vicina spec. n. (PI. XI, figs. 2, 2A, 2B.) 



Grayish-brown. Antennal flagellum brown. Alesonotal stripes mar- 

 gined with fuscous, the itiedian stripe divided by a blackish line. The 

 hyaline vitta of the wing extends through cell ist M- and cell R^ to 

 the apex. 



$. — Length 11. 5 mm., wing 13 mm. Head — Grayish-brown, paler 

 along the upper orbital margin, with dark median occipital line. 

 Rostrum sordid yellow, nasus beset with whitish hairs. Palpi fuscous, 

 the last joint shorter than the preceding joints together. Antennae 

 slender; bent back, they reach to base of halteres ; scapal and first 

 flagellar joints yellowish-brown, the following joints fuscous, basal 

 enlargement feeble, black, the setae shorter than the segments. 



Thorax — Mesonotum grayish-fuscous with a yellowish sheen, the 

 praescutal stripes scarcely darker than the ground color and margined 

 with fuscous, the median stripe divided by a black median line; pro- 

 notal scutum brownish ; scutellum and postnotum yellowish-brown. 

 Pleurodorsal membrane sordid yellowish. Pleura gray with a whitish 

 bloom. Halteres yellow at base, darker towards the club, the latter 

 fuscous. 



Legs yellow with whitish bloom; femora darker towards and in- 

 fuscate at the apex; tibiae yellowish-fuscous, their apices and the 

 tarsi fuscous. 



Wings grayish-fuscous; the fuscous costal border includes the basal 

 portion of cell R and all the radial cells except R^; a small hyaline 

 spot before the stigma, the latter dark brown ; the hyaline vitta of 

 cell M and outer part of cell R extends through cell ist M- and cell R' 

 to the apex; a conspicuous hyaline spot at apex of cell R and base of 

 cell 1st M"^; vein Cu and its basal deflection margined with fuscous. 



Abdomen above pale yellowish-gray, a broad, pale fuscous stripe 

 each side, a black transverse line each side, behind the anterior mar- 

 gin of segments 2-5, lateral margins of segments broadly, the posterior 

 margin very narrowly, paler, the former with a small brown dot on 

 tcrgites 2-7; venter gray, yellowish towards the base. Eighth sternite 



