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Five specimens: types, d^, ?, North Adams, Massachusetts, 
Aug. 8, 1907 (Owen Bryant), in New England collection, Boston 
society of natural history; Hanover, New Hampshire, July 5, 1908 
(C. W. Johnson). 
Brachypremna dispellens (Walker). 
PI. 16, fig. 16. 
Tipula dispellens Walker, Trans, ent. soc. London, new ser., vol. 5, p. 333, 
1858. 
Brachypremna dispellens Osten Sacken, Studies on Tipulidae, Berlin, ent. 
zeit., vol. 30, p. 162, 1886. 
This species previously recorded from Washington, D. C; Dallas, 
Texas; and Mexico, has been collected by the writer at Tick Island, 
Volusia Co., Florida, May 12, 1894; Jacksonville, Florida, May 22, 
1894; Pendleton, North Carolina, June 7, 1895; and one specimen at 
Shark River, New Jersey, July 12, 1897. There is also a specimen 
from Kentucky in the INIuseum of comparative zoology. 
A conspicuous insect of the more southern woods. Hovering up 
and down in the more densely shaded places, with a dancing motion 
covering a vertical space of three or four feet, it might well be called 
the king of the dancing Tipulids. 
Megistocera longipennis (Macquart). 
Tipida longipennis Macquart, Dipt, exot., vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 57, pi. 5, fig. 1, 
1837. 
Megistocera longipennis Osten Sacken, Berlin, ent. zeit., vol. 30, p. 161, 
1886. 
A specimen labeled Lake Okeechobee, Florida, is in the collection 
of the Museum of comparative zoology. 
Rhipidia bryanti new species. 
PI. 16, fig. 20. 
9. — Rostrum and occiput black, grayish pollinose, hairs black; 
palpi black, base of the antennae blackish, thickened, the flagellum 
yellow, joints monilliform, and unipectinate, the latter black and curv- 
ing forward; occiput grayish pruinose. Thorax grayish with a wide 
