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Polymeda bisulca (Alexander) 1948. Mariposa County 



Polymeda burra (Alexander) 1924. Placer County 



Polymeda cana (Walker) 1848. San Mateo, Mono, Riverside 

 Polymeda cinctipennis (Alexander) 1918. Los Angeles 



County 

 Polymeda crickmeri (Alexander) 1948. San Bernardino 



County 



Del Norte, Placer, 



Mono counties 



Plumas County 



Humboldt County 



Mariposa County 



Polymeda dulcis (Osten Sacken) 1877. 



Polymeda dyari (Alexander) 1924. 

 Polymeda laticeps (Alexander) 1916. 

 Polymeda melanderi (Alexander) 1944. 

 Polymeda melanderiana (Alexander) 1944 

 Polymeda pilipes var. anomala San Mateo, Monterey, 



(Osten Sacken) 1861. San Diego counties 



Polymeda rainieria (Alexander) 1943. Mariposa County 



Polymeda sparsa (Alexander) 1919. Alameda County 



Polymeda tripartita (Osten Sacken) 1877. Marin, San 



Francisco counties 

 P seudolimnophila luteipennis (Osten Sacken) 1859. 

 Rhabdomastix californiensis Alexander 1921. Monterey 



County 

 Rhabdomastix fasciger Alexander 1920. Santa Cruz County 

 Rhabdomastix trichophora Alexander 1943. 

 Tasiocera subnuda (Alexander) 1926. Alameda County 



Ulomorpha nigronitida Alexander 1920. Fresno County 



Ulomorpha quingue cellula Alexander 1920. Fresno County 

 Ulomorpha vanduzeei Alexander 1920. Fresno County 



Part I. Distribution 

 Mem. Cornell Univ. 



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ALEXANDER, C. P. 



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1934. Tipuloidea, In Curran, The families and genera 

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1942. Family Tipulidae. Guide to the insects of Con- 

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Coast of 



Fig. 14:6. Protoplasa fitchii O.S., larva, a, lateral view; b, 

 posterior end, lateral view; c, dorsal view; d, head capsule, 

 dorsal view; e, lateral view (Alexander, 1930). 



Family TANYDERIDAE 



ive 



The only species of this rare family of primitiv 

 crane flies whose immature stages have been dis- 

 covered is Protoplasa fitchii 0. S. of eastern North 

 America. They were found in wet sandy soil at the 

 margins of major streams. It is quite possible that the 

 larvae of the two known western species will also be 

 found in an aquatic environment so the family is 



Fig. 14:7. Protoplasa fitchii O.S., pupa, a, lateral view; b, 

 pronotal breathing horn; c, head, ventral aspect; d, genital 

 sheath, female; •» head, dorsal view (Alexander, 1930). 



