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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt:...Length, 20 mm. Diameter, 2.9-3 mm. Coloration, reddish brown. Spiracular disk as in T. collaris, the brown lateral margin to the lobes a little paler. Anal gills as shown in Plate XCII, 507.' Head capsule almost as in T. collaris. Mentum with apical point elongate, with three blunt teeth on either side. Hypopharynx with five moderately acute teeth. Antenna with a blunt conical papilla, larger and more conspicuous than in T collaris. Mandible with teeth very blunt. Pupa.--Length of cast pupal skin, about 18.5 mm. Pupa very similar to that of T. coUaris. Nepionotype.--Orono, Maine, June 19, 1913. No. 40-1913. Neanotype.--With type. Tipula bella Loew 1S63 Tipula bella Loew. Berl. Ent. Ztschr., vol. 7, p. 291-292. Tipula beUa is a common species, flying thruout the summer. Larvae and pupae are not rare in sandy or loamy soil along streams. A larva taken on April 28, 1917, in gravel at Ithaca, New York, where it was associated with larvae of Hexatoma, was placed in rearing. It emerged as an adult male on May 15. On May 27, 1913, three fully colored pupae were found along the sandy banks of Fall Creek, Ithaca, in association with Eriocera spinosa. They emerged as females on May 29 and 30. Larva.--(The description is from field notes on the larva mentioned above.) Length, 20-25 mm. Coloration light grayish brown, with a slight reddish cast most noticeable on venter; dorsum with two narrow, almost continuous, dark brown lines, these lines subparallel at anterior part of each segment, then strongly bellied out, and then parallel but finally divergent. Spiracular disk surrounded by six rather short lobes; ventral lobes with a linear, rather pale, brown mark, and a few sensory bristles at tips; lateral lobes with ventral margin lined with brown; dorsal lobes with both...