1006 CHARLES PauL ALEXANDER 
This is evidently the larva taken by Dr. Needham in the Adirondack 
and referred by him with some doubt (Needham and Betten, 1901:575 
576) to T. abdominalis. ‘This dubious reference has created considerabl 
confusion ever since the species was figured on the cover of Entomologica 
News under the facetious name “ Quisnam sexcaudatus?’”’ Malloch (1915 
17-b: 200-201) mentions the same larva under the name 7’. abdominalis 
As stated elsewhere, the larva of abdominalis is very different. 
Larva.— Length, 45-55 mm. 
Diameter, 4.8-6.8 mm. 
Coloration above, dark brown or brownish green; segments beautifully marked with smal 
white spots, especially anterior segments; a broad, dark brown, median stripe, and a mor 
or less distinct pale lateral stripe (in preserved specimens the pleura is usually dark brown 
more distinct behind, with numerous pale white dots); sternum dark greenish. (In olde 
specimens the color is very dark and the pattern is more or less obliterated.) 
Form stout, terete. Body smooth, segments with indistinct posterior tubercles. Chaeto 
taxy very weak, a few weak pleural setae on posterior ring, sternal and tergal setae minut 
Spiracular disk rather small, surrounded by six subequal, moderately narrow, lobes whic 
are fringed with short hairs; margins of disk and lobes somewhat as in 7’. bella, each lobe wit 
a delicate capillary brown line; two brown spots beneath each spiracle. . Spiracles smal 
separated by a distance about equal to twice diameter of one. Anal gills six, very long an 
slender (Plate XCII, 508). : 
Head capsule as in genus. Mentum broad; antericr margin nearly transverse, with thre 
subacute teeth on either side, median point not conspicuously elongated. 
Pupa.— Length of cast skin, about 32-35 mm. 
Characters almost as in 7. bella. Pronotal breathing horns short, cylindrical, tips n 
expanded. Abdominal spines prominent, projecting, few in number, on intermediate te 
gites 9 or 10; pleurites with a single strong spine on each ring; sternites with a posterior ro 
of seven or eight strong spines; on segments 5 to 7 two strong spines at base of posteri 
ring, those of seventh segment the largest. Cauda almost as in 7’ bella. 
Nepionotype.— Ithaca, New York, April 26, 1917. No. 16-1917. 
Neanotype.— Cast pupal skin, reared May 138, 1917. _ 
Paratypes.— Larvae and cast pupal skins from type locality. 
Tipula dejecta Walk. 
1856 Tipula dejecta Walk. Ins. Saunders, vol. 1, Dipt., p. 442. 
1901 Tipula fumosa Doane. Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., vol. 9, p. 99. 
Tipula dejecta is a characteristic vernal species flying in April and Ma 
The flies are notable inhabitants of swamps, especially alder swamps. 
On April 20, 1917, the writer found larvae of this fly in Larch Meadow 
near Ithaca, New York, in association with larvae of Rhamphidia mai 
ensis, Pseudolimnophila lutecpennis, and other swamp inhabitants. T 
