Scientific Results of the Katmai Expedition OF THE National Geographic Society. THE CRANE-FLIES (TIPULID^, DIPTERA). Charles P. Alexander. The crane-flies collected by Prof. James S. Hine and A. J. Basinger, members of the Katmai Expedition, have been sub-mitted to me for examination. The material is of exceptional interest in the high percentage of undescribed species that it includes. The types of the new species are deposited in the collection of Ohio State University. FAMILY TIPULID^. SUBFAMILY LIMNOBIIN^. Tribe Limnobiini. Genus Limnobia Meigen. Limnobia hudsonica Osten Sacken. 1861 Limnobia hudsonica Osten Sacken; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 289. One specimen, Savonoski, Naknek Lake, July, 1919. Limnobia sciophila Osten Sacken. 1877 Limnobia sciophila Osten Sacken; Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Survey Terr., 3, p. 197. One specimen, Katmai, July, 1917. The species had pre-viously been recorded from Kodiak Island by Coquillett. Limnobia indigenoides, sp. n. Allied to L. indigena; mesonotal prasscutum brown with three brownish black stripes; mesopleura and mesostemum broadly dark brown; femora brownish yellow, with a single narrow, brown ring before the apex; wings subhyaline with heavy dark brown seams to the cord and outer end of cell 1st M2; abdominal tergites brownish .black, narrowly ringed caudally with yellowish. Male. — Length 8 mm.; wing, lU mm. •193
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