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simple. Hypopygium yellowish-brown ; the ninth tergite a little longer 

 than wide and produced mesially into a short, obtuse lobe, the ninth 

 sternite deeply divided, the postero-inferior angle produced ; append- 

 ages yellowish-brown, the upper broad, irregular, the lower presents 

 an oval, outward bent lobe. 



5. — Length 15.5 mm.; wing 14.5 mm. Antennae short, first joint 

 grayish-brown, joints 2-4 reddish-brown, the remaining segments dark 

 brown, scarcely darker at base. The dark dots on the pale lateral 

 margins of the abdominal tergites less distinct. Ovipositor yellowish- 

 brown, upper valves long and slender, lower valves about two-thirds 

 the length of the upper, blade-shaped. 



Holotype, $ , Floodwood, Schoolcraft County, Michigan, 

 July, 191 5 (J. S. Rodger). 



Allotype, $ , topotypic. 



Paratypes, one $ topotypic, one $ Lancaster, New York, 

 May 31st, 1908 (M. C. Van Duzee). All in the author's col- 

 lection. 



Apparently close to T. aspidoptera Alexander, from which 

 it is readily distinguished by the narrow median mesonotal line 

 and all R^ entirely hyaline. 



Tipula conspicua spec. n. (Plate XI, fig. 3, 3A, SB). 



Joints of antennal fiagellum distinctly bicolored. Thoracic stripes 

 margined with fuscous, the median stripe divided by a dark mesial 

 line. The hyaline alar vitta reaches to the apex. Abdomen yellow 

 without stripes. 



$. — Length 15.5 mm.; wing 17 mm. Head grayish-fuscous, a 

 tuberosity behind the antennal insertion ; face and frontal prolongation 

 cream-yellow, nasus beset with short black hairs; sides of rostrum 

 brownish. Palpi yellowish-brown, joints 1-3 pale at tip, the last 

 joint shorter than the preceding joints together. Antennae slender; 

 bent back, they reach to the base of the postnotum; scapal joints 

 brownish with a whitish bloom above; flagellar joints slender, sub- 

 cylindrical with a whorl of black setae, the latter shorter than the 

 respective segments, yellow and, with the exception of the first joint, 

 black at the base, with a whitish bloom. 



Thorax — Pronotal scutum gray with a crescentic, fuscous line. 

 Praescutum grayish-white, stripes light-brown, margined with dark 

 brown, the median stripe of equal width throughout and divided by a 

 dark median line. Scutum brown, central part whitish. Scutellum 

 sordid white, a trifle darker anteriorly. Postnotum sordid white, 

 posterior margin darker, surface transversely rugulose, a brownish 

 spot each side. Halteres yellowish- fuscous, paler towards the base, 

 knob brown. Pleura and pleuro-dorsal membrane grayish-white. 



