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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 

 Fourth Series 



Vol. XI, No. 8, pp., 103-107 September 29, 1921 



VIII 



UNDESCRIBED TIPULIDiE (DIPTERA) FROM WESTERN 

 NORTH AMERICA, PART II 



BY 



Charles P. Alexander, Urbana, Illinois 



The first part under this title appeared in 1920 (Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. X, no. 5, pp. 35-46). The few additional 

 species that were included in the 1920 collections of crane-flies 

 are discussed at this time. The types of all the species are 

 contained in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences. 

 I am indebted as heretofore to the collector, Mr. E. P. Van Duzee. 



Subfamily Limnobiinae 

 Tribe Eriopterini 

 Genus Rhabdomastix Skuse 

 Subgenus Sacandaga Alexander 



1 . Rhabdomastix (Sacandaga) calif orniensis, new species 



Antennae black; head dark, yellowish gray pruinose; pronotum 

 light yellow with a narrow dark brown median line; mesonotum 

 yellowish gray, the praescutum with four narrow dark brown 

 stripes; pleura grayish plumbeous, variegated and striped with 

 yellowish; halteres pale; wings grayish subhyaline; stigma pale 

 brown; vein Sc long; R 2 moderately long, from one-third to 

 nearly one-half R 2 +z; abdomen dark brown, the segments in- 

 distinctly and narrowly ringed with paler. 



Male. — Length, 4.6 mm.; wing, 5.6 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae black, the first 

 scapal segment grayish pruinose; flagellar segments oval, the 



