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Of the great amount of ma- terial collected, comparatively few specimens have been deter- mined, and these are mentioned herewith. The species, Erioptera dulcis O. S., Limnophila lenta O. $., Hexatoma mega- cera O. S., Pachyrhina macrocera Say, Tipula trivittata Say, and T. flavicans Fabr., are not recorded in Prof. Needham’s list of the New York crane-flies (23d Report of New York State Entomologist, Bull. 124 of the State Museum). Many of the species are comparatively uncommon. The New York Tipulidae have been sadly neglected by the majority of collectors. The two most important collections made in the State are those of Baron Osten Sacken and Profes- sor Needham. ZTHSONES, AUG 2 1961 248 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, ’10 Fulton County, in which all of my collecting was done, contains about all of the varied situations in which the different _ crane-flies occur. The Adirondack Mountains, with their scores of little lakes, occupy the northern half of the county; a river flows through the northeast corner; while great tracts of marshland (the Vlei) lie in the eastern part. The altitude ranges from about 500 feet up to 2,700 feet. My main col- lecting grounds are as follows: 1. The Woodworth’s Lake and Canada Lake country, in the central, or west central, portion of the county. Small mountain lakes, lying between 1,500 and 1,600 feet above sea level. The character of the fauna and flora is typically Cana- dian. Most of the species of Tipulidae secured by Osten Sacken at Trenton Falls, and by Needham at Old Forge, occur here. 2. The Sacandaga Park country, in the extreme northeast of the county, is on the Sacandaga River, a branch of the Hudson. Sport Island, in the river, is about half a mile in length, and several hundred feet in width. The ground is mostly low, with grassy fields in the center, the margins of the island being overgrown with rank shrubbery, ferns, etc., forming choice haunts for many insects. The island is con- nected with the mainland (Sacandaga Park) at the northwest end, by a large wooden bridge. There is a broad strip of low land bordering the northeast coast of the island for several hundred feet. On each side of the island is a dam of about six feet drop, skirting the east shore of the island from the dam y several hundred feet to the south, are broad, pebbly beaches. On the southeast side of the island is a deep indentation into the land, an offshoot of the main stream, but filled with quiet water ; this is called the “bayou.” The altitude of the island is about 875 feet. The fauna and flora shows an intermingling of Canadian and Transition forms. 3. Gloversville, N. Y., in south-central part of the county ; altitude, 900 feet. 4. Johnstown, N. Y., in southern part of the county; alti- tude, 700 feet. —s- Vol. xxi] ' ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 249 These last two localities are in the township of Johnstown. Both cities are situated on the Cayudetta Creek, and only three miles apart. The fauna is mainly Transition. The determinations have all been made, or confirmed by, Professors C. W. Johnson and J. G. Needham, to whom my sincere thanks are due. 1. Rhipidia maculata Meigen. Woodworth’s Lake (Bleecker township) ; altitude 1,600 feet ; August 24, 1909; a few specimens, hovering about the crevices in a small cliff. 2. Discobola argus Say. Canada Lake (Caroga township) ; altitude 1,550 feet; July 10, 1909; one in a spider’s web, still alive. Woodworth’s Lake (Bleecker township), altitude about 1,625 feet, August 22, 1909 ; One specimen, swept from rank, palustral vegetation. 3. Limnobia parietina O. S. One fine specimen, Woodworth’s Lake, August 20, 1909, from a small cliff along the outlet. My field notebook says, “From a crevice high up on the face of the cliff, I drove out a large crane-fly. It flew out of the cranny with sluggish, lum- bering flight and lit on the top of a hemlock tree a foot or two away. By jumping up, I managed to sweep the specimen into my net.” 4. Toxorrhina muliebris O. S. I swept one specimen from tall, rank vegetation at Sacan- daga Park. It was taken along the railroad embankment, north of the railroad station, about sunset, July 5, 1909. 2 5. Rhamphidia flavipes Macq. Two specimens at Mountain Lake Bog Pond (Johnstown township) ; altitude 1,580 feet, June 26, 1909. One specimen swept from rank grasses at Sport Island, Sacandaga River, June 20, 1909. One specimen, southeast of Johnstown, INE Yes September 6, 1909. 6. Cladura indivisa O. S. Woodworth’s Lake, August 24, 1909, two specimens flying about in the woods. Johnstown, N. Y., September 12, 1909, 250 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, ‘10 one specimen. It was extraordinarily abundant in a woods near Gloversville, N. Y., on September 22, 1909. The following is from my field notes : “T went to Simmon’s Woods, southeast of Gloversville, N. Y., this afternoon, and was very agreeably surprised at the occurrence, in large numbers, of this usually uncommon in- sect. Near the entrance of the woods, where Simmon’s Brook emerges, the insects were found in numbers. “At each step they flew out of the bushes to others farther away. They are wary insects, and when sitting on the upper side of a leaf, slip over the edge and hang inverted from the lower side when alarmed by an observer. “They present a very characteristic attitude, sitting on the leaf of a tree, with their wings folded flat over the abdomen, and the six long legs stretched out over the leaf. A few were taken in copulation; these were all hanging on the under side of a leaf. Their habit of clinging to the under surface of a leaf is quite remarkable and I found several by looking for them there. “There were hundreds of specimens in the low bushes of the woods, usually on the broad leaves of deciduous trees at a height of two or three feet. Sometimes they would-alight on hemlock, and, occasionally, in ferns near the ground. It was the only Tipulid observed here to-day.” 7. Rhypholophus monticola O. S. Woodworth’s Lake (Bleecker township), August 24, 1909. Several specimens flying about a small cliff along the outlet. 8. Rhypholophus rubellus O. S. Along the Mountain Lake Railroad track, about two miles north of Gloversville, N. Y. One specimen, July 3, 1909, swept from ferns, in a damp woodland (Power House Woods). 9. Erioptera (Mesocyphona) caloptera Say. Very common about Johnstown, N. Y.; first taken on the evening of June 1, 1909, several specimens swept from tall meadow grass. Very common throughout the summer, into September, in similar habitats. Sacandaga Park (Northamp- ton township), July 5, 1909, a few specimens taken. Vol. xxi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, 251 10. Erioptera (Mesocyphona) dulcis O. S. One specimen in company with the last, which it somewhat resembles. 11. Erioptera (Hoplolabis) armata O. S. Not at all rare about Johnstown, N. Y., from May and June until September 12, 1909, when I took a few specimens. It frequents shady places, such as gullies. Power House Woods (see R. rubellus), July 3, 1909,a few. Sport Island, Sacandaga R., July 5, 1909, very common. 12. Molophilus hirtipennis O. S. Johnstown, N. Y., June 30, 1909, at twilight; July 1, 1909, one flew to a lamp in my house; not rare during the summer months. 13. Goniomyia subcinerea O. S. Taken at the same time and place as Rhypholophus rubellus O. S. (No. 8) ; two specimens. 14. Trichocera ¢cumalis Fitch. Very common at times during the winter months. During November and in February and March it is found on cellar windows and, on warm days, out of doors. In late March and April it occurs in small swarms in sunny places in woods and along the edges of brush lots. On May 12, 1909, a very large swarm was observed at Johnstown, N. Y., hovering over a large fallen beech trunk. My latest record is May 19, 1909, one specimen at Johnstown, N. Y. 15. Limnophila macrocera Say. Sacandaga Park, very common on damp vegetation along the railroad embankment north of the station. It was taken in large numbers on June 20 and 21, 1909. One specimen was taken near the Johnstown cemetery on July 2, 1909, and an- other on September 12, 1909. These are my only records. The species is generally not very common. 16. Limnophila adusta O. S. East of Johnstown, N. Y., June 20, 1909, one specimen. 17. Limnophila lenta O. S. Woodworth’s Lake (Bleecker township), August 24, 1909. 252 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, ’to0 It was not uncommon in the cool woods along the outlet of the lake. 18. Limnophila (Dactylolabis) montana O. S. On May 16, 1907, I found this species very abundant around a stone quarry near the Gloversville Reservoir. The flies lurked in the crevices of the rocks and large numbers were collected as they hung inverted from the roof of the crannies. This is the only Limnophila that I have taken in such a situation. (This is mentioned in Needham’s list, quoted before.) 19. Hexatoma megacera O. S. This remarkable little species was not at all rare on Sport Island, Sacandaga R., June 6, 1909. It occurred on semi- palustral grasses along the northeast coast of the island and along the “bayou.” It was very sluggish and not at all diffi- cult to capture. A large number were secured. 20. Eriocera longicornis Walker. Of this remarkable species I secured a single male specimen on May 18, 1907, flying at twilight over a grassy field near Gloversville, N. Y. On June 6, 1909, it occurred in large num- bers on Sport Island, Sacandaga River. In the late afternoon a few scattered individuals were observed. Just after sunset the insect became very abundant along the north end of the island, hovering in small swarms over the water’s edge and dancing about like many of our smaller Tipulids. Toward dusk, many species of may-flies and caddice-flies joined the little companies of dancing flies. Of the specimens secured. the males slightly predominated in numbers. 21. Tricyphona (Amalopis) inconstans O. S. Canada Lake (Caroga township), July 10, 1909, two speci- mens. Not at all rare about Woodworth’s Lake in August. Johnstown, N. Y., in June, July, August and, especially, early September. 22, Liogma nodicornis O. S. Mountain Lake Bog Pond (Johnstown township), altitude 1,585 feet, June 26, 1909. It was very common toward sunset Vol. xxi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 253 on rank, semipalustral vegetation. One specimen in the ceme- tery gully, Johnstown, N. Y., June 15, 1909. 23. Phalacrocera tipulina O. S. East end of Canada Lake (Caroga township), altitude 1,550 feet; one specimen only on July 10, 1909. 24. Dolichopeza americana Needham. One specimen under the bridge at the outlet of the Mountain Lake Bog Pond (Johnstown township), altitude 1,585 feet. It was taken during a rainstorm, in company with Bittacomor- pha, on June 13, 1909. 25. Pachyrhina macrocera Say. One specimen in the gully on the north side of the Johns- town cemetery, June 30, 1909. 26. Pachyrhina incurva Loew. Two specimens, male and female, in Johnstown cemetery gully on June 30, 1909. 27. Pachyrhina ferruginea Fabricus. Two specimens near Johnstown, N. Y., June 24, 1909. 28. Tipula abdominalis Say. Very common along the Park side of Sacandaga River from July 6 to 16, 1906. It was kindly determined by Prof. E. P. elt: 29. Tipula trivittata Say. Two specimens on Sport Island, Sacandaga River, June 12, 1909 (northeast coast). One specimen on Sport Island, June 20, 1909. 30. Tipula flavicans Fabr. In early September this species became very common in most of the grassy fields and scanty brush lots about Johns- town, N. Y. Specimens were secured from September 3 until September 22, 1909, when I left that locality. 31. Bittacomorpha clavipes Fabr. The phantom crane-fly is one of the most striking of our Tipuloidea. It is abundant and very widely distributed in the county. I have taken it in marshy woodland about Glovers- — 254 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ June, ’1o0 ville (Cold Spring Woods) and near Johnstown, from June throughout August. It occurred at the Mountain Lake Bog — Pond, June 13, 1909 (altitude 1,585 feet). It is a very com- mon species at Sacandaga Park, frequenting the rank vegeta- tion growing along the bottom of the railroad embankment. Specimens were observed June 20 to 22, 1909. 32. Ptychoptera rufocincta O. S. One specimen in the Power House Woods near the govern- ment shooting range, north of Gloversville, N. Y., July 3, 1900. 33. Idioplasta fitchii O. S. This was probably the most interesting species taken. Over half a century has elapsed since the discovery of this wonderful crane-fly by Asa Fitch. I secured five specimens on Sport Island, Sacandaga River (Northampton township) from June 6 to 19, 1909. All five specimens were swept from the rank, tall vegetation along the northeast coast of the island, exactly opposite Wolf Island. The first two specimens were taken on June 6, two more on June 12, and the last on June 19. The beautiful ocellate mark- ings on the wings are quite variable in shape and character. They are, however, generally arranged in three bands, a basal one, a medial one and a sub-terminal one, with a few scattered rounded apical marks. In one specimen the bands are almost complete, there being but one detached apical spot. In an- other specimen (June 12, 1909) the marks are separated. rounded spots, about three apical ones, five sub-apical ones, six medial ones, and three or four basal ones. These separated spots are usually contiguous but separable by their light color with a broad dark ring surrounding the marking. The markings of the wings of my specimens are very con- spicuous and, as Prof. Johnson suggests, bear a great super- ficial resemblance to those of Epiphragma fascipennis. x MN atthore Procter Pa fark Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 66 Fulton County (New York), Tipulidae (Dipt.).—II. By Cas. P. ALEXANDER, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N. Y. This is a continuation of the list in ENTomMoLocicaL News, June, 1910. Since the publication of that article, much of the undetermined 1909 collection has been worked over and an im- mense amount of new material collected. The total number of species definitely known from the county to date is about 125, which is more than is known from most States of the Union. A few errors in the first part, most of which must be charged against the author, should be corrected: On page 248, thirteenth line in under 2, should read, “for several hundred feet.’ The altitude of the island is 750 feet (average), not 875 feet. On page 251, Trichocera crwmalis should be T. brumalis. New collecting grounds: Some of the new localities visited proved to have an extremely rich Tipulid fauna. The more notable of these are: “Psocid Glen,” on the west bank of the Cayudutta creek, between Johnstown and Sammonsville; a small creek flowing into the Cayudutta at the electric-light dam. Although at a low altitude (550 feet), the fauna is distinctly Canadian. “Prairie Lake Bog’ in Caroga Township (1,870 feet); a bog in the tertiary stage, supporting a perfectly normal oxy- lophytic type of vegetation, such as: Solidago uliginosa, Gen- tiana linearis, Acer pennsylvanicum, A. rubrum, A. spicatum, Nemopanthus mucronata, Kalmia angustifolia, Andromeda polifolia, Chamaedaphne calyculata, Chiogenes hispidula, Vac- cinium macrocarpon, Aronia melanocarpa, Sarracema purpu- rea. Drosera rotundifolia, D. intermedia, Myrica gale, and a variety of sedges. Since the publication of the first part, the acceptance of Meigen’s 1800 paper by most Dipterologists has changed many of the genera used in tne Tipulidae. The names are given in Coquillett’s “Type-Species of North American Diptera,” but are widely scattered amongst the other genera of flies, so that 67 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., ’12 a compact record of the recent changes in nomenclature, as now held by many students of the family, may be of value. Sub-fam. LIntNoBINAE: % Aa: 0s cconeaeen ae cee cece eee A MPHINOMINAE Heide LIMNOBING 22.52 ef..< «oes since same ae eed AMPHINOMINI Genus Limnobia Meig. 1818 ...............-. Amphinome Meig. 1800 Genus Dicranomryia Steph. 1829 ............- Furcontyia Meig. 1818 Tribe ANTOCHINI, RHAMPHIDINE .............0c..s. MEGARHININI Genus Rhamphidia Meig. 1830 ....Megarhina St. Farg. et Serv. 1828 Genus Dicranoptycha O. S. 1859 .......... Marginomyia Meig. 1818 ‘Tribe ERIOPrERIND: 2. 25s 7... encase oe eae eon ere PoLy MEDINI Genus Erioptera Meig. 1803 ..........--...-+- Polymeda Meig. 1800 Genus Rhypholophus Kol. 1860 .....-....--..-- Ormosia Rond. 1856 Genus Helobia St. F. et S.; 1828; (preocc.) Symplecta Meig. 1830 Tribe LimNopHILINI, TRICHOCERINI ............-.---- PETAURISTINT Genus Trichocera Meig. 1803 ................-- Petaurista Meig. 1800 Tribe “ANTSOMERTIEN 7 .rce dor st aretclie eats otsae ttn ae HEXATOMINT Genus Eriocera Macq. 1838 .........-...--..- Caloptera Guer. 1829 Genus Asmalopis Ealv8560 52-112 veins Tricyphana Zett. 1837 Genus Ctenophora (of authors, non Meigen) ..Phoroctema Coq. 1910 Genus Xiphura Brulle 1832; Ctenophora Meig. 1803. Flabellifera Meig. 1890 Genus Stygeropis Loew. 1863 ..............-- Prionocera Loew. 1844 Family PLY CHOPRERED A eran ace ae eerste LIRIOPIDAE Genus Ptychoptera Meig. 1803 .........+.+--+-++ Liriope Meig. 1800 Genus Idioplasta ©. S. 1878 ..--- 2200+ ee ees Protoplasa O. S. 1860 The present paper deals with the tribe Amphinomini, and begins the Polymedini. The remainder of the Polymedini, and the Megarhinini, Petauristini, Hexatomini, and Pedicini, as well as the Cylindrotominae, Tipulinae and Liriopidae will be considered in succeeding parts. New stations and new records for the species included in Part 1 are here given, with the orig- inal number in parentheses. As in the previous part, I must acknowledge the kind advice of Prof. Needham and Prof. Johnson upon certain difficult questions. 34. Geranomyia canadensis Westw. Rare. Canada Lake; Caroga T’sh’p; one ¢ only, June 23, IOIT. 55. Geranomyia rostrata Say. Common and widely distributed. Sacandaga Park; several Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 68 along the R. R. embankment, June 21, 1911. On Aug. 24, 1910, the species occurred in extraordinary abundance. Thou- sands of specimens occurred here and I secured about a dozen at each sweep of the net. They are very active and usually fly directly from the bag, not making their way up the side of the net after the fashion of most crane-flies. Sport Island, N. E. Coast, Aug. 24, 1911; some ten specimens. Johnstown, N. Y.; Sept. 14, 1909. “Psocid Glen”; Aug. 24, 1910. VanDenburgs Pond; Bleecker T’sh’p; Aug. 30, 1909. “Camp Naturalist,” alt. 1428 feet; Bleecker T’sh’p; Sept. 14, 1910. 30. Rhipidia fidelis O. S. Rare. Sport Is.; Sacandaga R.; June 27, 910; 2. (4) Rhipidia maculata Meig. Pinnacle Mt.; Bleecker T’sh’p.; alt. 2000 feet; Sept. 15 LOO or ’ 37. Furcomyia longipennis Schum. Common locally. Sacandaga R.; Sport Is. (bayou); Aug. 24, 1910. Hillside Park; Burrs Pond; abundant on marsh veg- etation consisting of Leersia, Bidens, etc.; Aug. 4, 1909, and Sept. 9, 1910. 38. Furcomyia immodesta O. S. Commonly and widely distributed. Sacandaga R.; Sport Is. ; Aug. 24, 1910; both sexes; on the mainland, along the R. R. embankment, common; June 2r and 28, 1911. Johnstown; common; June 10, 1910. Gloversville; Power House Woods; Sept. 23, 1910. Woodworth’s Lake; Aug. 21, 19009. 39. Furcomyia gladiator O. S. Local. Extremely common in B. P. H. U. Swamp, Wood- worth’s Lake; Aug. 22, 1910; males were more common than. females. 40. Furcomyia rostrifera O. S. Common, especially in late summer and autumn. Sacandaga Park; along the R. R. embankment; June 27, 1910; June 28, 1911; Aug. 28, 1911. Sammonsville; Sept. 22, 1910; common. 69 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb; <12 Gloversville; Power-house Woods, Sept. 23, 1910; very abun- dant on low vegetation. Prairie Lake Bog; Aug. 31, IIT. 41. Furcomyia liberta O. S. A well distributed species at low altitudes. Sacandaga R.; Sport Is.; June 17, 1910; a few, Aug. 24, 1910; June 21, 1911; rare. Johnstown; June 10, 1910, not rare; June 17, 1911. 42. Furcomyia stigmata Doane. Not uncommon about the face of cliffs. Gloversville; stone quarries near the reservoir; June 19, 1910, and June 16, 1911. A species described from California. Neither Mr. M. D. Leonard nor I can separate the New York specimens off as distinct. It is possible that an actual comparison of specimens would reveal differences. Stigmata is distinguished from haer- etica, O. S., by the shortness of Sc 1, a distinct stigmal spot, and the plain brown mesothoracic praescutum. 43. Furcomyia halterata O. S. Local and northern in distribution. Sacandaga Park; along the R. R. embankment; Aug. 24, 1910; @’s. Prairie Lake Bog; Aug. 31, 1911; a few. Woodworth’s Lake; very com- mon along B. P. H. U. Creek and in the bog-swamp at the head of the creek; Aug. 22, 1910. 44. Furcomyia badia Walk. Not common. ‘“Psocid Glen,” Aug. 31, 1910; a few only. Stone quarry on the mountain side, near the Gloversville reser- voir; Aug. 29, 1910, and Sept. 7, 1910. Woodworth’s Lake; B. P. H. U. Creek; Aug. 22, 1910. 45. Furcomyia morioides O. S. Common and widely distributed. Sacandaga Park; along the R. R. embankment; June 21, 1911. Hillside Park; Sept. 9, 1910. Johnstown; Aug. 6, 1909. “Psocid Glen,” Aug. 26, 1910, a few; June 14, 1911, common, both sexes ; Aug. 30, 1911, a few. 46. Furcomyia pubipennis O. S. Not rare; Canadian life-zone. Sacandaga Park; along the Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 70 R. R. embankment, June 21, 1911; VanDenburg’s Pond, June 19, 1911; in a sphagnum bog. Mountain Lake, June 15, 1911: common around the bog-pond. Woodworth’s Lake, Aug. 19. 1909; very common about cliffs; both sexes. 47. Furcomyia globithorax O. S. Rare; Canadian life-zone. One fine @ of this peculiar little species; Woodworth’s Lake, along the outlet, Aug. 22, 1910. 48. Furcomyia simulans Walk. Not common. East Canada Creek, near Ingram’s Mills, Sept. Il, IQLI. 49. Amphinome immatura O. S. Rare. Sammonsville, Sept. 22, 1910; a broken specimen in a spider’s web. Pinnacle Mt.; near cliffs; 2 ; Sept. 16, 1910. 50. Amphinome solitaria O. S. A common species of the Canadian life-zone. “‘Psocid Glen,” Aug. 26, 1910; four $’s; Aug. 30, 1911, common, both sexes. Woodworth’s Lake; B. P. H. U. Swamp; Aug. 22, rgro. 51. Amphinome triocellata O. S. Rare. Woodworth’s Lake; B. P. H. U. Swamp, Aug. 22, IQ10, one é only. 52. Amphinome indigena O. S. Common. Sacandaga Park; along the R. R. embankment, June 21, 1911. “Psocid Glen,” Aug. 21, 1910. Canada Lake, June 24, 1911. Woodworth’s Lake, Aug. 22, 1910; June 23, 1910. e 53. Amphinome tristigma O. S. Abundant, northern in distribution. Gloversville; Power- house Woods, common on ferns, etc., July 3, 1910. Wood- worth’s Lake, B. P. H. U. Swamp, Aug. 22, 1910. 54. Cryptolabis paradoxa O. S. Abundant. Gloversville; Power-house Woods, July 3 and 17, 1909; abundant on low vegetation, such as ferns, etc. Sac- andaga R.; Sport Is., July 5 and 25, 1909. Not rare on herb- mi ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., ’12 age growing amongst shrubbery. June 27, 1910, “Very com- mon on the rank herbage of the northeast coast and specimens could be found in my net at every sweeping. Hundreds—if not thousands—of specimens about.” June 21 and 28, 1911, common on Sport Is. 55. Sacandaga flava Alex. Locally common. Since describing the genus Sacandaga (Ent. News, Oct., tgtt), I have come to the conclusion that the insect is most closely related to the genus Rhabdomastix, Skuse* of Australia. The differences between the two genera are rather numerous, but the resemblances, especially in the genitalia of the male and in the venation, are great, and it is possible that Sacandaga will, upon further study, be relegated to subgeneric rank. The genera should have been compared in the original description, but I was not in possession of Skuse’s detailed description of Rhabdomastix at the time. This comparison is supplied in the following key :— A.—Antennae very long, filiform, nearly twice the length of entire body. Wings cuneiformly narrowed towards the base, with only a slight indication of an anal angle. Halteres, long, slender. Vena- tion: Se rather short, tip of Sct remote from the tip of Rr; Se beyond origin of Rs, twice the length of the cross-vein r-m. Sc2 absent or indistinct at tip of Sct. R2+3 (petiole of second sub- marginal cell of Osten Sacken) one-half of cell R2. Cross-vein r-m as long as the basal deflection of Cur. Second anal short, CUTVEd 24 icc ops praie Pee ene ees Rhabdomastix Skuse. AA.—Antennae normal reaching about to the root of the wings. Anal angle present and prominent. MHalteres short, abruptly capitate. Venation: Sc long so that Scr and Ri are somewhat approxi- mated at the tip; Sc long, beyond the origin of Rs, four times the length of the cross-vein r-m. Sc2 conspicuous, removed from the tip of Ser. R2+3 equal in length to, or longer than, cell R2. Cross- vein r-m much shorter than the deflection of Cur. Second anal Prominent. |PiSiniace ye celle eens ee erie Sacandaga Alex. *Diptera of Australia, by F. A. A. Skuse. Proc. of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales; vol. 4 (series 2nd) (25th Sept., 1889) ; P. 828, 829; Pl. 22, Fig. 15 (wing) Pl. 24, Fig. 57 (¢ genitalia). Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. a2 Although the two species are almost antipodal in their re- spective ranges, it is not exceptionally remarkable to find such a distribution. Sport Island is the home of two other insects which are almost equally isolated from their near allies. The primitive crane-fly, Protoplasa, occurs here, and finds its only living relative (Tanyderus) in Chile and Australasia. The remarkable may-fly, Siphlonisca aerodromia Ndm. described from this island, finds its near relative in Oniscogaster wake- fieldi, McLach., of New Zealand. The present occurrence, therefore, merely adds one more difficulty to the explanation of the geographical distribution of animals and plants. 1g09—June 12, not rare on Sport Island; July 5, a few. 19to—June 27, male; Aug. 24. 1911—June 21, one male; June 28, several. Gloversville, Power-house Woods, July 3, 1909. Seasonal distribution, June 12-Aug. 24. The species has been taken only on Sport Island, with the exception of a single specimen at Gloversville, and mainly on the east and northeast coasts, where it may be swept from rank herbage. The vegetation in the places where the species is commonest consists of a dense tangle of herbage, composed mainly of such plants as Onoclea sensibilis, Osmunda clav- toniana, Veratrum viride, Polygonatum biflorum, P. commu- tatum, Laportea canadensis, Actaea rubra, Cryptotaenia cana- densis, Galiwm lanceolatum, Eupatorium urticaefolium, Solidago canadensis, S. rugosa, S. graminifolia, Rudbeckia laciniata and Helianthus decapetalus. The whole undergrowth is thickly in- tertwined with creepers, such as Smilax herbacea, Clematis virginiana, Menispermum canadensis, Celastrus scandens and Convolvulus sepium. It is not common, as a rule, but in June several specimens can generally be taken by sweeping. On June 13, 1909, I found the species swarming and made the following observations: The species came out at about 7.45 P. M. and at 7.51 P. M. began its flight in under an elm tree at the northeast end of the island. The flight was generally forward, but continually from side to side for a few inches. The flight was quite irregular, always toward the slight north breeze. The whole 73 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. | Feb., ’12 swarm would often move away and return, a little later, to the first place. It swarmed within four feet of the ground, generally much lower, averaging, perhaps, two feet. The flight is so irregular that it is difficult to describe. The num- ber of individuals participating in the swarm was about twenty. Other species swarming nearby at the same time were Chir- onomus hyperboreus, var. meridionalis, Joh., and the may-flies, Ephemerella excrucians Walsh, and Siphlonisca aerodromia Ndm. kody. C. I. Potiuern, Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 349 Notes on Two Tipulidae (Dipt.). By Cuartes P. ALEXANDER, Ithaca, N. Y. The following species were taken in Fulton County, New York, during 1909 and 1910. The first species is a novelty and cannot be referred to any of the known genera of crane flies. After a careful examination of the literature, I have de- cided to erect the following genus: SACANDAGA ¢gen. nov. Subcosta, long; vein R? very short, oblique; no radial cross- vein; Mri+2 fused to margin. Antennae of 16 segments; basal segment rather globular; second globular, cyathiform; Fig. 1.—Sacandaga flava—dorsal aspect of head; Cotype No. 2. first segment of the flagellum globular; second to ninth gradu- ally cylindrical; tenth to fourteenth, elongate-cylindrical; all 350 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct., 1911 of the segments of the flagellum armed with from two to four stiff hairs. Palpus of four segments; fourth segment ir- regularly cylindrical, longer than the third; second about as long as the fourth; first longest; all armed with many stiff hairs. Eyes large, rather approximated behind. Legs rather short, fore legs about 13.5 mm. long; middle, 10.5 mm. long; hind, 13.5 mm. long. Last four tarsal segments very slender at their point of attachment with the segment preceding. The last tarsal joint is small, irregular in shape, rather smooth on the outer face; inner face, concave, with slight convexities at each end, the proximal with from six to eight hairs, the distal one with a single conspicuous bristle on each side, the whole inner face being rather finely clothed with hair; at the base of the segment on the outer face, are about four stiff hairs. Penultimate segment generally similar to the fifth in shape and Fig. 2.—Sacandaga flava—middle leg, showing last two tarsal segments. size, but more thickly covered with stout hairs. Claws long, slender, smooth, those of the posterior legs nearly two-thirds as long as the fifth tarsal segment. This genus belongs to the tribe Polymedini (Eriopterini of authors.) It is most similar in venation to Empeda and Goniomyia, which it approaches in the shape of cell R2. It is easily distinguished by the much greater length of subcosta, lack of radial cross-vein, the deflection of Cu! fusing with M$ a Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 351 under cell first M2 (discal cell of Osten Sacken), not proxi- mal to it, and the consequent insignificant fusion of Cu’ with M%. The resemblance to these two genera is probably merely accidental, as, in general appearance, the flies are very different. The type, and only known species, is: Sacandaga flava sp. nov. Type—Alcoholic 9, in C. U. collection; Sport Is., Sacan- daga River, June 12, ‘09. Cotypes; (1) Sport Island, July 5, ’o9 (collection Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.). (2), 8 ; June 27, ’10; same locality. (3), ¢ 5; June 12, ‘09; same locality. (4), Gloversville, N. Y., July 3, ’oo. Length 5 mm.; wing, from 6 to 7 mm. See table of leg measure- ments at the end of description. Antenne blackish-brown; first segment, head and palpi, reddish- brown; eyes black. Thoracic dorsum with a broad median stripe of reddish-brown on a more yellowish ground, beginning on the anterior margin of the prescutum, terminating within a short distance of the posterior margin. To the side of this, and more or less distinctly separated from it, is a broad stripe, beginning near the caudal end of the scutum and extending forwards on the side of the prescutum to near the middle of the latter. A narrow brown stripe extends from the anterior margin of the prescutum to the cephalic margin of the neck. Sides of the neck and thorax, honey-yellow, becoming infus- cated toward the venter. Legs dusky yellow; halteres light yellow throughout. Abdomen dirty yellowish. Wings hyaline, opalescent; stigma somewhat distinct. Details of venation of the species: Subcosta long, Scr at least five times the length of Sc2. Radius quite long, parallel to subcosta till the latter ends, and then parallel to costa for a short distance, at its tip sharply turned upward. The radial sector arises near the middle of R. R2 is very short, oblique, shorter than the cross-vein r-m and only one quarter the length of R3. R3 a trifle longer than R2+3. Basal deflection of R4+5 as long as R2; beyond the r-m cross- vein, the vein runs nearly parallel between R2+3 and M1+2. Media: basal deflection of M1+2 about one-half the length of R2; thence, to the m cross-vein, twice the length of R2. Basal deflection of Mz equals R2. Fused portion of M3+ Cur equal to one and one- half R2. Second deflection of M3, two-thirds the length of R2. 352 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct., 1911 Cubitus: Basal deflection of Cur (great cross-vein of Osten Sack- en) two-thirds the length of C2 or one and one-half R2. 1st Anal, nearly parallel to cubitus, more divergent toward the wing-margin. 2nd Anal, gently bisinuate and diverging posteriorly, leaving cell 1st A very large. p< Ne Fig. 3.—Sacandaga flava—wing; Cotype No. 3. Cell R2 is triangular, small; cell 1st M2 (discal cell of Osten Sacken) hexagonal, small. The proportions of the veins holds good in the specimens examined but may vary somewhat in a large series. Leg measurements of cotype No. 2 (¢): FORE MIDDLE HIND Femora 3.6 mm. 3.6 mm. 4.9 mm. Tibia 4305 BE) ake Aout Tarsus... yep Bo) Vis 235).°° 2h afro: ae MOM Tai «go “ OO ssn waveeoccceoeeret eS ary 28h 2a) ct OE WT esas daawtnpeens oles bra iss STAR oe SCS SARE eee 5 13). ne Tay Sey pio tal Pessesapensneeeeates 13.27 mm. to.60 mm, 13.27 mm. More complete notes on the habits and occurrence will be given in “Fulton Co. (New York) Tipulide; Pt. IL.” Adelphomyia senilis. A second species which deserves mention is a little crane-fly of the tribe Limnophilini. It belongs to the genus Adel- phomyia, hitherto known only from the Old World, and is un- doubtedly the same as the common European, A. senilis Hali- day. The specimens at hand, over a hundred in number, agree Vol. xxii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 353 so closely with Loew’s detailed description (as Cladura fuscula, Beschr. Europ. Dipt. III, p. 65), that it must be referred to senilis until a comparison with European specimens proves it otherwise. The fly is very common in Fulton County, New York, in late summer and early autumn, and with the exception of the all-predominant Cladura flavoferruginea O. S., is the most common Amphinomine (Limnobine) at this season. The venation, as shown by figure 4, is, in general, similar to a Phylidorea (Limnophila), but Sc! is longer than in any of the species of this genus in Eastern America, at least. All of the distal cells possess long prominent hairs on the membrane. These hairs occur all over cells 2nd R!, R?, Rk’. R°, M1, M?, Fig. 4.—Adelphomyia sentlis—wing. M3, Cu!, a few in cell 2nd M? (discal cell of authors), and a few on the extreme distal edge of cells Cu, R and Sc!. There is never any of this hairiness on the proximal half of the wing as in Ulomorpha and the character of the hair is different in the two genera. Adelphomyia senilis might be mistaken for a small Phyli- dorea, but it is smaller than any of the described Eastern spe- cies. From Ulomorpha, it readily separates by its smaller size, presence of cell M! and characters mentioned above. In Fulton County, New York, the species is well distributed, as follows: (1) Woodworth’s Lake; alt. 1665 ft.; Aug. 21, 22, ‘og; Aug. 22, 1910. -(2) Sport Is.; Sacandaga R.; alt. 750 ft.; one only, Aug. 24, IQIO. 354 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct., 1911 (3) Johnstown; alt. 600 ft.; Aug. 31-Sept. 22, 1910. (4) Gloversville; alt. 1000 ft.; Sept. 23, 1910. Mr. M. D. Leonard, a most careful student of the family, took two specimens at Ridgewood, Bergen Co., N. J. (Brook, Ridgewood Heights, Sept. 16, 1910), thereby adding an inter- esting species to the New Jersey State list. Besides receiving help from a number of students at Cornell, I wish, especially, to thank Dr. J. G. Needham for his very kind assistance throughout the course of this study. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 287 NEW TIPULIDAE (DIPTERA). BY CHARLES P. ALEXANDER, ITHACA, ‘N. Y. The following crane-flies are believed to be new to science : Adelphomyia minuta, sp. Nov. Antenne, first segment light reddish-yellow, remainder light brown, with a thick, white pubescence ; rostrum reddish-brown, palpi brown ; front and vertex reddish-yellow, thinly grayish-pruinose ; a row of pale yellow hairs along the inner margin of the eye ; occiput reddish-yellow. Pronotum yellow ; mesonotum, preescutum brownish-yellow, with a thin white bloom, a row of long yellow hairs on either side of the median line ; scutum and scutellum pale yellow ; metanotum almost white. Abdomen: yellow, with a white pruinosity on the caudal margin and with long scat- tered yellow hairs ; ovipositor brownish-yellow. Halteres yellow, knob barely darker. Legs pale yellow, darker on the tibize and tarsi. Wings hyaline, stigma indistinct, yellowish ; veins pale yellow, C, R and Cu somewhat brownish. Subcosta quite long, extending almost to the anterior margin of cell R;; Sc, far distant from the tip of Sc,, so that Sc, is four times the length of Sc,. Radius long, cross-vein x far back from tip, about four times its length and near to the anterior end of cell R. As moderately long, arcuated at origin, about equal to Rg; R.,, from one to one and one-half the length of the basal deflection of Cu,; basal deflection of R,,; about one-half of cross-vein 7-m ; 7-m usually about as long as the basal deflec- tion of Cu,. Petiole of cell M, (M23) usually long, two-thirds the radial sector. Cu, usually about twice the basal deflection of Cu,. Basal deflection of Cu, under the middle of the discal cell. In most specimens the cross-vein 7 is much reduced, or even lacking, due to the great length. of the second deflection of Mg. Length, 2, 3.3-4.4 mm.; average, 3.6 mm.; wing, 4.1—4.2 mm. Length, 9, 4 5-4.9 mm.; average, 4.7 mm.; wing, 4.6-4.7 mm. Type.— ¢, Coy Glen. Ithaca, N. Y., May 21, ’rr. Co-types.—12 ¢s, 3 9S; same time and place as the type. This tiny species is quite similar in venation to the species which fF have determined, provisionally, at least, as Adelphomyta senilis Hal. In that species cross-vein 7 is always present in the scores of specimens examined. . The two species are of nearly the same size, with minufa averaging smaller. Although the distal cells of the wings of semz/is are notably August, 1911 = 288 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. pubescent, and of ménuta entirely glabrous, except in a few abnormal specimens, I have no hesitation in referring both species to the same genus, because of the similarity of venation and genitalia of the d. The valves of the ovipositor of the 2 are much more curved in méinuta than in senz/ts. The species was very common on rank vegetation near rapids in Coy Glen. Phylodorea subcostata, 0. sp. 3.—Eyes black, with a purple reflection. Antenne, first segment, elongate-cylindrical, somewhat broader distally ; second globular ; third to last similar to one another in shape, cylindrical-ovate, with four or five long black hairs arranged in a partial verticil about the center; the last few joints are more slender and shorter than those preceding ; antenne black, with a thick gray pubescence throughout; the extreme base of segment three is brown in some specimens. Rostrum and palpi black. Entire head black, with a gray pruinosity. Pronotum light gray pruinose ; mesonotum black, with a thin yellow bloom on the sides, middle of prae- scutum shiny black ; postscutum gray-pruinose. Metanotum gray. Sides of thorax, including base of cox, thickly gray-pruinose. Fore leg, tip of coxa, trochanters and basal third of femur light yellow ; remainder of femur, tibia and tarsus dark brownish-black ; middle leg similar to fore, but apical half of femur dark coloured ; hind leg similar to fore, but only the apical third of the femur is dark, tibia paler brown ; tarsus as in fore leg. Halteres rather long, yellow throughout. Abdomen above black, the dorsum of each segment being paler in the basal two-thirds ; genitalia black ; beneath dirty blackish-yellow. Wings hyaline, stigma rather indistinct, brown ; veins at base of wing strongly yellow, giving this colour to the wing at this region ; subcosta is yellow for its entire length, the other veins for a short distance only ; radius and costa of a paler brown than the other veins. 9 .—Similar to ¢, but genital segment light brown. Subcosta long, fork very close to tip, Sc, being about twice as long as Sc,, ending anterior to cell Ry. Radius long, cross-vein y at tip ; radial sector often angulate, with a spur at the angulation, rather short, longer than R,, but not as long as Rs. Vein Ry,; about equal to the basal deflection of Cu, Basal deflection of Ry,,; shorter than Rg, ; cross-vein r-m two-thirds the length of the basal deflection of Cu,. Petiole of cell M, (vein M;,»), variable in length, from as long as the 7-m cross-vein, to THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 289 one and one-half the length of the basal deflection of Cu, or from two- fifths the length of cell M, to nearly twice as long as this cell. Very considerable variation occurs in the two wings of the same specimen. Basal deflection of Cu,, under the middle of cell rst, Ms. Cu, equal to, or very little longer than, the basal deflection of Cu, Cu,+Mg, about equal to basal deflection of Cu, Cells Rs, R; and rst M, usually in one line. Length, $, 5.9-6.3 mm.; 92, 6.5-7.3 mm.; wings, ¢, 2, 6.5 mm. Type.— ¢, Coy Glen, Ithaca, N. Y., May 21, ’r1. : Co-types.— 2? 2, Coy Glen, May 21,’11 ; 2, Six-Mile Creek, Ithaca, N. Y., May 21, ’11. (Thompson and Rutherford.) This species belongs to the /ratria group, and appears to be closest to costatz Coq. from New Mexico ; from frafria and costata it differs in being much smaller and decidedly distinct in coloration. 1911] Morse—Orthopterological Work of Mr. S. H. Scudder 191 masterly in execution, inspiring in word and deed; but in science— the pursuit of truth—it must not be done blindly, it is necessary to preserve an unbiased attitude and accept or reject conclusions independently. Personally Mr. Scudder was the highest type of a scholarly gentleman: a broad-minded, dignified, cultivated, courteous savant, in whom were united the finest attributes of the scholar and man of science; yet genial withal, and most kind and helpful to the inquiring student. Well do I remember the cordial weleome he extended to me, an unknown quantity, in response to the rat-a- tat of his laboratory knocker,—that quaint conceit, a knocker in the form of a locust, beating upon the door with its hind legs!— when I first called upon him, as well as the many delightful hours spent there afterward in the study of his collection. His unrivaled library, rich in everything entomological and as complete as possible in his specialty; his collection, unequaled in America, containing specimens from the ends of the earth; and most of all the man himself, well-versed in many branches of the science, made his laboratory the Mecca of every entomologist, resident or migrant, native or foreign. In those days (the 90’s) the Cambridge Entomological Club met there, its members few but determined to keep the lamp alive and maintain the high traditions of an earlier time. Mr. Scudder was a host in himself; Roland Hayward, now with the great major- ity, was very regular in attendance; Mr. Henshaw came frequently, less often in the later years; Messrs. Bowditch and Emerton, still with us, occasionally appeared; rarely, birds of passage visiting the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy or Mr. Scudder himself, among them Dr. Geo. H. Horn, Prof. Lawrence Bruner, and other entomologists of note; and among the younger men, while resident in Cambridge, I recall especially J. W. Folsom and W. L. Tower, both of whom have since made their mark. This period was at the flood tide of Mr. Seudder’s productive- ness on the orthoptera. Never a meeting passed but that he had something to communicate ;—additional or newly worked material, new discoveries based on his studies, or notes of interest gleaned from his wide reading of entomological literature. Those were indeed, golden days 192 Psyche [December “When every morning brought a noble chance, And every chance brought out a noble” theme from Mr. Seudder’s pen. In the spring of 1897 Mr. Scudder made a proposal which led to my spending the summer on the Pacific Coast in search of the Orthoptera of that region. On the way out I stopped for a few days in southern New Mexico with Professor Cockerell and col- lected there. The material thus secured, amounting to several thousand specimens, was shared between us, the bulk of it re- maining in my collection, but was determined almost wholly by Mr. Scudder, though the Xiphidiini and Tettiginse were worked up by me at his special request. No report on the collection as a whole has ever been prepared but upon it were based in large part a series of short papers by Mr. Scudder during the late 90’s, papers which form a very considerable contribution to the knowledge of the orthoptera of that region. The weekly, sometimes daily, postal card bulletins which Mr. Scudder sent me during the proc- ess of identification, announcing progress and new discoveries, remain among my treasured mementoes of a delightful and all too brief association with one of the truly great men of his time. SYNONYMICAL, AND OTHER NOTES ON THE TIPULID (DIPTERA). By Cuarues P. ALEXANDER, Ithaca, N. Y. The question as to whether, or not, the name Li mnophila, Mac- quart (Nat. Hist. Dipt., Vol. I, p. 95, 1834) can be retained for the well-known genus of crane-flies, has faced every student of Tipulide since the time of Rondani. Rondani in his “Prodromus Dipterol. Italice’’ (Corrigenda, IV, 1861) stated that this generic name was preoccupied in the Mollusca and proposed the new name, Limnomya. A careful study of conchological literature failed to find any mention of a genus Limnophila, but constant reference to a sub- order of that name. G. W. Tryon, Jr., “Structural and Systematic Cai CM frbesowc s ee Pricer Aeparte 1911] Alexander—Synonymical and Other Notes on the Tipulide (Diptera) 1938 Conchology” (Vol. III, p. 92, 1884), gives Limnophila, Hart- mann, as a synonym of the suborder Hygrophila, Ferrusac (order Basommatophora). Dr. Paul Fischer in his great work, “Manuel de Conchyhologie et de Paléontologie Conchyologique (Paris, 1887, p. 503) concerning the suborder Hygrophila, states that the suborder Limnophila is a synonym. It is, of course, possible that a genus Limnophila was erected in the Mollusea in 1828, in which case the name of the Tipulid genus would become Limnomya, Rond., this being the first term applied to the genus as a whole, although the sub-genera Ela@ophila, Ron- dani (56); Lastomastex, O.S. (60); Prionolabis, O.S. (60); Dac- tylolabis, O.S. (60) and Dicranophragma, O.S. ('60) were erected before this genus. One, [dioptera, Macq. (Nat. Hist. Dipt., I, p- 94) was proposed even before Limnophila. However, these names are used by many authorities as full genera, and by others as sub-genera, all applying to groups of species contained in the old genus Limnophila. If any change should have to be made, it would be better to use the name which first covers the genus as a whole. If there is no genus Limnophila in the Mollusca prior to 1834, then the Tipulid name is perfectly valid because that section of the rules of nomenclature that deals with synonymy decrees that “the laws of synonymy appertain only to genera, subgenera, species and sub-species’’ and consequently the Suborder Lim- nophila is outside the field. The late Mr. D. W. Coquillet on p. 590 of his invaluable publi- cation, “The Type species of the North American genera of Dip- tera’ has placed the American species of the genus Limnophila in Bigot’s genus Phylidorea (Bigot, Synoptic Table, etc., p. 456).2 As explained by Osten Sacken (Studies on Tipulidze, pt. II, p. 234, 235)° the genus Phylidorea is merely a synonym of Limnophila. Bigot, l. ¢., p. 456, states that “the species of Limnophila, Macgq., provided with a discal cell are my true Tipulid@ and re- ceive the new generic name, Phylidorea, Bigot.” But Osten Sacken, ]. ¢., p. 235, remarks, “what species Mr. Bigot places in 1 Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 37, pp. 499-647 (1910). 4Bigot. Ann. Soc. Entom., France, pp. 447-482 (1854). + Osten Sacken, C. R., Berliner Entom. Zeitschr., Bd. XXXI, Heft II, pp. 163-242 (1887). 194 Psyche [December his genus Limnophila without discal cell is not explained in his paper and I am not aware of the existence of any such species.” Consequently, the species in the New World, as well as the Old, should be known as Limnophila, but it would be better to accept the prior name Petaurista (Meigen, 1800) as the tribal name, 7. e., Petauristini instead of Limnophilini. There are a few corrections in synonymy to be made. Tvpula costalis, Say of the Eastern United States (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, IIT, 23.2, 1823) is preoccupied by Macromastix cos- talis, Swed. of Australia. (Tipula costalis, Swederus; Act. Holm, 286, 1787.) No other name seems to have been applied to the costalis of Say, and I propose the name Tipula sayi, nom. nov. (non Oropeza sayi, Johns). Dicranomyia brunnea, Grimshaw, of Hawaii (Fauna Hawaiiensis, III, 1901) is preoccupied by D. brunnea Doane (Eastern United States) (Jour. New York Ent. Soe. VIII, 1900) and its describer should propose a new name for the Hawaiian insect. In the “Type-species of Am. Dipt.,” the late Mr. D. W. Coquillet states that the type of Holorusia, Loew, is grandis, Bergr. Bergroth (Ent. Tidskr, TX, 1888) proposed the name grandis to replace rubiginosa, preoc., on the grounds that Holorusia is not distinct from Tipula. If the genus Hol- orusia is to be considered as distinct as is done by Mr. Coquillet, the type is still rubiginosa, Loew, and not grandis, Bergr. DescripTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. In the description of the following species of crane-flies, I have adopted many of the suggestions proposed by Mr. R. A. Mutt- kowski in his splendid article ““The Composition of Taxonomic Papers.” (Ann. Ent. Soe. Amer., June, 1911; Vol. IH, No. 2, pp. 194-217). Concerning the thoracic structure, the terminology given by Mr. R. E. Snodgrass, “The Thorax of Insects and the Articu- lation of the Wings” (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XXXVI, pp. 568, 569; pl. 62; figs. 173, 174; pl. 63, figs. 175-178) is largely used. The best paper on crane-fly genitalia, is, without question, that by Mr. Snodgrass on “The Hypopygium of Tipulidae.” (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., XXX, June, 1904; pp. 179-236, pl. VIII, XVIII.) The terminology used therein has been adopted in the present paper, 1911] Alexander—Synonymical and Other Notes on the Tipulidae (Diptera) 195 but it would be desirable could we have a common terminology for all of the Dipterous families, if not for all the orders of insects. I wish to thank Dr. A. D. MacGillivary, of Ilinois, for advise on certain points; Dr. J. C. Bradley, for the Georgia material herein included, and, especially, Dr. J. G. Needham for kind advice and assistance upon many points. Limnophila similis sp. nov. Male. Dark brownish-black; L. 7.5 mm.; wing, 9 mm. Rostrum brownish-yel- low, darker at the tip; palpi dark brownish-black; front, vertex and gene, light gray. Antenne: first segment elongated, cylindrical, as long as segments two, three and four combined, brown; second segment, globular, reddish-brown; remain- ing segments generally similar to one another in shape, cylindrical, armed with long black verticils and clothed with a fine yellow pubescence. Thorax: Pronotum, dark brown with a fine pubescence; mesonotum: anterior portion of the prescutum, glabrous, shining black; remainder with a yellowish- brown bloom; a regular V-shaped row of yellowish-brown hairs, extending from the caudal end of the naked patch described above, posteriorly to near the transverse suture; scutum, scutellum and postnotum with a gray bloom, the scutum with scattered hairs; scutellum with a transverse row of yellowish-hairs along the caudal margin. Metanotum gray. The pleura dull yellowish-brown; venter, pale yellow, its sides with a gray bloom. Hialteres, pale yellow, the knobs darker, brown. Legs: cox, bright yellow; femora, yellow, tipped with brown; tibiz, brownish-yellow, extreme tip darker; metatarsus yellowish-brown, the remainder of the tarsi, dark brown. Abdomen, dark brown, densely covered with long, pale brown hairs, the genital segment brighter brown. Genitalia: the pleura is moderately long, thickly armed with very long dark brown hairs; these hairs as long as the apical appendages. The dorsal apical appendage, pointing meso-caudad, chitinized at the tip, toothed; the ventral appendage thickened at the base, the slender apical portion short, di- rected caudad. (See fig. 8.) Wings of a whitish color; cells C and Se tinged with yellow; stigma, brown; basal deflection of Ri-+s, base of R, and the deflection of Cu: with brown clouds; distal portion of cells 2d R:, R:, Rs: and R:;, tinged with darker. Venation: al- most exactly as in L. adusta, O.S., both agreeing in the following essentials: Rs very short, arcuated at its origin; Rs rather short, oblique, with the radial cross- vein near its middle and at the tip of Ri; 2d Anal similar in the two species. (See fig. 4.) Female. Similar to the male; L. 8-9 mm.; w. 10-10.5 mm. Generally similar to the male, but the mesothoracic scutum and scutellum are covered with a yel- lowish-brown bloom; postnotum with a gray bloom; abdomen pale yellow with light brown apical rings on the segments; abdomen beneath, light yellow with brown caudal margins to the segments. 196 Psyche {December Limnophila similis is allied to adusta, O.S., but is much darker in coloration, dark brown, not red or yellow. In adusta, the ventral apical appendage of the male hypopygium (see fig. 9) is thick- ened on both sides of the base; in similis (see fig. 8) the thicken- ing is all on one side (cephalic margin in the normal position of rest). The slender portion of this appendage is much longer than the thickened base in adusta, shorter than this base in similis. The dorsal appendage in adusta is long, slender, thickened on the inner margin of the chitinized tooth, in similis much shorter. The gonapophyses are much smaller in similis than in adusta, but have not yet been studied critically. Holotype: male; Johnstown, N. Y. (Hale’s Creek) June 10, “10: Allotype: female; with the type. Para-type: female; Johnstown, N. Y., June 26, 10. Swept from vegetation near water; Coll. C. P. Alexander. Limnophila noveboracensis sp. nov. Male and female. Brownish-yellow; legs, yellow; L. male, 5.2-5.8mm. Female 7-8 mm.; W. male, 6.5 mm.; female, 7—7.5 mm. Rostrum, light brown; palpi with numerous long hairs, brown; front and ver- tex yellow with a light gray bloom, producing a silvery effect. Antenna: Ist seg- ment, elongate, cylindrical; 2d, more globular, both segments brown, armed with scattered black hairs; segments of the flagellum becoming gradually more and more elongated and slender, yellowish-brown, with a rather short pubescence and long scattered verticils. Front, vertex and the prolonged occiput, thickly beset with long, brown hairs. Thorax: surface opaque; Pronotum, brownish-yellow; the neck with a gray pubescence. Mesothorax: prascutum, yellowish-brown; a distinct humeral pit on the latero-anterior margin, brownish-black; no distinct thoracic stripes; a conspicuous double dot near the cephalic margin of the prescutum. Remainder of the mesothoracic and the metathoracie dorsums, light brownish yellow. Pleure pale brownish-yellow. Halteres pale, the distal portion of the knob darker. Legs: cox yellow; femora and tibi pale yellow, the extreme tips barely darker; tarsal segments excepting the metatarsus, yellowish-brown. Abdomen hairy, brownish above, paler, yellowish, beneath; genitalia, light. Wings hyaline, or nearly so; stigma indistinct; veins pale brown. Venation: Sc long, extending almost to the inner margin of cell Rs. Se: about twice the length of Ses. R long, the cross-vein r far from its tip, at least twice its own length. Rs long, gently arcuated at its origin; petiole of cell Rs, short, from one-fourth to two- fifths as long as vein R2; Rs long, sinuate; Ri+s between Rs and the cross-vein r-m, longer than this cross-vein. M1; beyond the cell Ist M:, longer than this cell. 1911] Alexander—Synonymical and Other Notes on the Tipulide (Diptera) 197 Basal deflection of Cu: anterior to the middle of cell Ist M2. R:+:, so arcuated that Rg is not in a direct line with Rs. 2d Anal vein curved sharply inward at its tip. Cell Rs is decidedly anterior to cell Rs and about on a level with cell Ist M:. M,-+: fused to the wing-margin, eliminating cell Mi. (See fig. 3.) Limnophila noveboracensis comes in the same category with lenta, O.S., quadrata, O.S.; nigrilinea, Doane and antennata, Coq. in that it lacks cell M,. It differs from these species as follows: L. lenta, O.S. (fig. 1) (E. U.S.) has: Se, slightly longer than Ses; petiole of cell Ry (R2+ 3) rather long, two thirds the length of R.; cross-vein 7 usually just beyond the fork; vein Ry short, ob- lique; R, almost on a straight line with Rg; cells R3, Rs and 1st Mz all on a level; distal portion of vein Mz rarely longer than cell Ist Mo; R, usually short, arcuated at origin; coloration, ochra- ceous-yellow. L. quadrata, O.S. (fig. 2) (E. U.S.) has: Ses longer than Se; petiole of cell R, (R2+3) nearly as long as Ry; the cross-vein 7 in- serted just beyond the fork; vein R» short, oblique; R, in a straight line with Rs; cells Rg, R; and 1st Mz all on a level; distal portion of vein M3 about as long as cell Ist Ms; R, long, gently arcuated near its origin; coloration yellowish-gray. L. nigrilinea, Doane (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., VIII, p. 190) (W. U.S.; Olympia, Wash.) has: Petiole of cell Ry one and one half the length of the basal deflection of Cu,; cross-vein r slightly re- moved from tip of R,; cell Rg slightly anterior to cell R;; general color yellow, with a black dorsal band. L. (female) 12 mm.; distal portion of wings pubescent. L. antennata, Coq. (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., XIII, pp. 58, 59) (W. Am.; Brit. Col.) has: Petiole of cell Ry obliterated or nearly so; cross-vein r at the tip of R,; cell Rg slightly anterior to cell R;; general color black; antennz of the male long, reaching the base of the 6th abdominal segment. Although noveboracensis agrees, superficially, with lenta and quadrata, it belongs to a very different group of species. In all respects except the presence of cell M,, this species is a typical member of the luteipennis group of the genus. ‘The four species, luteipennis, contempta, inornata and the present species, agree in possessing the following group characters: Structure of the head, narrowed and prolonged behind; neck produced forewards to 198 Psyche [December meet the caudal portion of the head; structure of the antennz; the pronounced humeral pits, and the double dot on the meso- thoracic praescutum; venation; cell R; longer than cell R;; vein R; arcuated; 2d A strongly incurved at tip, ete. Holotype: male. Sacandaga Park (Fulton Co.), N. Y., along the R. R. embankment, June 28, 1911. Allotype: female; with the Holotype. Para-types: 3, in the type-locality, June 21, “11. Para-types: 10, in the type-locality, June 28, °11. Para-types: 3, Coy Glen, Ithaca, N. Y.; July 11, *11. Common on rank vegetation, usually near running water; Coll. C. P. Alexander. L. noveboracensis is common, and apparently widely distributed in the North. The type locality is in the Southern Adirondack Mts. (N. Y.). The species is common about Ithaca, N. Y. (Coy Glen), and there are specimens in Dr. Needham’s - collection labelled “Walnut Lake, Mich., July 8, 1906.”” It has probably been confused with L. quadrata in collections. The figure in Dr. Need- ham’s Report on the Crane-flies of New York (23d Rept. of the N. Y. State Entomol., pl. 18, fig. 6) is not quadrata but belongs to this new species. The specimen of L. luteipennis, mentioned by Osten Sacken (Monographs, etc., IV, p. 218) where he says “I possess a specimen without petiolated (second) posterior cell in both wings” may possibly belong to noveboracensis. Limnophila (Prionolabis) simplex sp. noy. Male. Dark brown; L. 11 mm.; w. 11.5 mm. Described from an alcoholic specimen. Rostrum pale; palpi brown; front, occiput and vertex, dark brown; antennze, dark brown. Thorax: pronotum, dark brown. Mesonotum, prescutum and scutum dark brown, the scutellum lighter brown. Metanotum dark brown. Pleure dark brown. Halteres uniformly pale. Legs: cox brown; trochanters brownish- yellow; base of femora, brownish-yellow, gradually darker to the tip; tibis, yel- lowish-brown, the tip suddenly darker; tarsi dark brown. Abdomen: dorsum, light reddish-brown, the 8th segment rather darker; hypo- pygium, brown, the pleura medium-brown, paler mesally; apical appendages yel- low with the tips chitinized, brownish-black. Genitalia: hypopygium, tergal portion rather deeply notched, the notch obtuse, the sides produced posteriorly into short blunt points; pleura, rather short, armed with long, numerous black hairs. The apical appendages two, the ventral one produced posteriorly, elongate, 1911] Alexander—Synonymical and Other Notes on the Tipulide (Diptera) 199 toothed along the inner face of the tip; teeth relatively few, one tooth, near the middle, relatively larger than those below it. The anterior, or dorsal apical ap- pendage is simple, unarmed, projecting mesally, curved so that the tip projects slightly caudad. The Anal tube is long, almost concealing the guard of the penis; the second gonapophyses are long and slender; the guard of the penis is bent strongly ventrad near its tip. (See fig. 10.) Wings: light yellowish-gray, the cells all uniform in coloration; stigma rather indistinct, gray; a pale gray cloud at the base of Rs; pale clouds along R: +s, basal deflection of Ruts, cross-vein m, deflection of Mi-++2, and along the basal deflection of Cu; Cu tinged with brown. Venation as in Limnophila rufibasis, O.S. to which this species is related. This species belongs to the sub-genus Prionolabis, O.S., and is closely related to L. (P.) rufibasis, O.S. of the Eastern States. It differs in the following respects: L. rufibasis has the costal and subcostal cells much richer yellow than the other cells of the wing; stigma clear-cut, dark brown; markings along the cord of the wing and along Cu, much darker. Base of the femora bright yellow, not tinged with brown. The deciding difference lies in the shape of the anterior apical appen- dage of the male genitalia, which, in rufibasis (See fig. 11) is bifurcated with the ventral arm toothed, whereas in simplex (see fig. 10), it is simple. The species, L. munda, O.S., which is also referred to the subgenus Prionolabis is very distinct from either of the above. Holotype: male, Gainesville, Ga., April 2, 1911; Coll. J. Gy, Bradley. It is probable that some of Osten Sacken’s specimens of rufi- basis (Monographs, ete., IV, p. 226) belong to this new species, as he says “the wings are more yellowish in the larger specimens and more grayish in the smaller ones.’”’ The drawing of the genitalia (id., pl. IV, fig. 27) is highly diagrammatic. Polymera georgiae sp. nov. Male. Dark brownish black; L. 4.2-5 mm.; w. 5 mm., ant. 5.75 mm. Described from alcoholic specimens. Rostrum and palpi, light brown; front and vertex, dark brown; eyes, black, the ommatidia large, few in number; antenn: first segment, short, round, brown; second segment, rounded, brown; third, very elongated, cylindrical, brownish-yellow, the tip, pale, whitish; segment with short scattered hairs and a few long delicate ones; segment 4 to 16, generally similar to one another in shape, elongate-cylindrical, swollen near each end, the swellings armed with short, scattered hairs and on the third to fifth segments with scanty long delicate ones; segments brown, pale at the ends producing an annulated effect. Thorax: pro-, meso-, and meta-nota, as well as the pleure, dark brownish-black. Halteres brownish-yellow, the knob large, darker. Legs: anterior pair, coxe brown, trochanters light brown; femora, light brown, with a dark sub-apical ring, 200 Psyche [December the extreme tip yellowish white; extreme base of the tibiew, yellowish white, re- mainder of tibiz, brown; tarsus light yellow, the base of the metatarsus rather darker. Middle pair: femora brown, darkest before the tip; tip abruptly whitish yellow; tibise and tarsi as in fore legs. Posterior pair: coxze brown; femora brown, with a darker subapical band; tip yellowish-white; base of tibia yellow; remainder brown; tarsi, yellowish-white, the terminal segments somewhat darker. Abdomen dark brownish-black with long conspicuous hairs. Wings: grayish brown throughout; venation: quite similar to P. albitarsis. Will. (Dipt. St. Vincent; P. 296, 297; Pl. 10, fig. 71) (Copied in Needham, Crane- flies (23d Rept. St. Ent. N. Y.; Pl. 21, fig. 2) and Williston, Manual of N. Am. Dipt. (1908); p. 85, fig. 28). However the longitudinal veins in the distal por- tion of the wing are much longer than there shown, the free portions of M; and Cu, longer, the basal deflection of Cu: beyond the fork of M, not at it, ete. (See fig. 5.) This species differs from P. albitarsis Will. (Is. St. Vincent), in the conspicuous annulated antennz, darker color of the thorax and other colorational differences. From the unsatisfactory de- scription of P. fusca, Wied. (Brazil) (Wiedemann, Aussereur- opiiische zweifl. Inseckt, Vol. I, p. 58, pl. VI b, figs. 3 and 4) it differs in the color of the antennz and feet, and, if the drawing is accurate, in venation. P. obscura, Macq. is similar to fusca and considered a synonym by Kertesz. P. hirticornis, Fabr. (S. America) has white bands on the wings. The genus is new to the Nearctic fauna, having been recorded, hitherto, only from South America and the Lesser Antilles. Holotype: male, St. Simon’s Is., Ga., April-May, 1911. Coll. J. C. Bradley. Para-types: 2 males, with the holotype. Ormosia apicalis sp. nov. Male. Yellow and brown; L. 4.5 mm.; w. 5.25 mm. Described from an alco- holic specimen. Rostrum and palpi brown; front, vertex and occiput, yellowish-brown; anten- ne: Ist segment of the antenne, elongate, cylindrical; second globular; 3d to 8th oval, generally similar to one another in shape; remainder elongated, the segments covered with a short pubescence, and long, scattered hairs; antenne, pale yellowish- white. Thorax: Pronotum grayish-white. Mesonotum: preescutum yellow with two indistinct brown lines running forwards from the ends of the arms of the V-shaped suture; these lines with numerous black hairs which meet jn front of the suture; an indistinct brown median line; scutum yellow with a row of hairs on either side leading from the ends of the V-shaped suture toward the wing-roots; scutellum whitish-yellow, thickly set with dark hairs; postnotum very pale, almost white. 1911] Alexander—Synonymical and Other Notes on the Tipulide (Diptera) 201 Metanotum yellow; pleure whitish with a tinge of brown. Halteres, pale. Legs, brownish-yellow throughout. Abdomen, dark brown, pleure somewhat paler; genital segment yellow, tinged with brown in the apical half. Wings: hyaline, the costal margin somewhat darker. A large, dark spot above the base of the Rs, a second surrounds Sez and a third at the tip of Ses, extending down over cross-vein r. The whole apical portion of the wing from the stigma down to the median veins is blackish. Dark clouds on the basal deflection of Cur and cross-vein rm; base of wing between R and Cu dark; veins brown; deflec- tion of M:+:, very pale. Venation (see fig. 6): Se long, Sc: ending at a point slightly anterior to the cross-vein r. Sc: remote from the tip of Sc:, about midway between that point and the base of Rs. Rs long, feebly arcuated. Cross-vein r far back from the tip of R; and just beyond the fork of R2+s. R:2+:s longer than the basal deflection of Cu:. Cell Ist M: closed. Basal deflection of Cu: anterior to the fork of M. (Most of the pubescence of the wing disc has become detached due to its being in alcohol with other specimens.) This species does not seem very closely related to any of the described American forms. The three species with spots on bands on the wings, innocens, O.S., fascipennis, Zett., and nubilus, O.S. are quite distinct in that the spotted and banded effect is brought about by dark hairs, and not by the color of the membrane itself, as in apicalis. It agrees with innocens in the essential features of venation, closed cell Ist Ms, divergent Anal veins, etc. Holotype: male, Burton, Ga. (May 20, 1911); Coll. J. C. Bradley. Furcomyia monticola sp. nov. Male and female. Light yellow and brown; L. male 6-6.5 mm.; female, 7.5-7.8 mm.; w. male, 6.5 mm.; female 7 mm. Rostrum brownish-yellow; palpi brown, the first segment lighter colored. Front and vertex, brown. Antennz: first segment, cylindrical, light yellow, with a few scattered black hairs; remaining segments rounded-oval, almost monili- form, brown. Thorax: Dorsum light yellow, marked with brown. Pronotum, very light brown medially. Mesonotum: a straight band of brown beginning near the ce- phalic margin of the prescutum, running backward and expanding out over the caudal portion of the sclerite, in the middle ending just before the V-shaped suture on the sides running to the suture and meeting the mark on the scutum; scutum with two lunate brown marks on each side of the yellow median line; scutellum largely brown; postnotum brown, yellow on the cephalic margin. Metanotum brown. Pleurw clear light yellow, unmarked. Halteres pale, knob slightly darker. Legs light yellow throughout, with numerous black hairs. Abdomen: dorsum yellowish-brown, the joints of the sclerites darker. Ven- tral surface light yellow; genitalia brownish-yellow. Genitalia of male. (See figs. 202 Psyche (December 12, 13.) The ventral soft fleshy lobes, very large, resembling boxing gloves in shape, covered with scattered hairs pointing posteriorly. From its inner margin, pointing inwards, is a slender arm, terminating in a stout chitinized tooth, armed with denticulz along the cephalic margin; on the caudal margin of this arm, and pointing posteriorly, are two stout bristles. The dorsal arm is chitinized, rather slender, the free portion short, curved, pointing cephalad. The guard of the penis, when viewed from above, is almost straight, the second gonapophyses pointing inwards. Viewed from the side, the penis-guard is strongly decurved ventrally, with a protuberence beyond the middle on the ventral side; the second gonapo- physes, conical, pointing ventrad and armed with numerous hairs at the tip. Wings: hyaline; stigma light brown, distinct. Venation (see fig. 7); Se mod- erately long, the fork at the origin of Rs, or (usually) somewhat beyond it. Sei, from one to two times as long as Se2. Cross-vein rat the tip of Ri. Deflection of R.+: about one half as longas Rs. Basal deflection of Cu: at the inner end of cell Ist M:. Cross-vein m present, closing cell Ist Ma. On some of the cotype males, the basal deflection of Cu; is anterior to the fork of M. This species comes nearest to F. moniliformis, Doane (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., 1900, p. 184, pl. VII, fig. 8) but differs in the fol- lowing particulars: antennz and palpi brown; markings on tho- racic dorsum very different, as well as decided differences in color of legs, abdomen, wings, ete. Sc, ends beyond the origin of R,, never before it; no pubescence in distal portions of the wings, ete. The forceps of the male are notable and agree in some respects with the brief description of this part in haeretica, O.S. (Mono- graphs IV, p. 70.) Holotype: male, Black Rock Mt. (Rabun Co.) Ga., alt. 3,000 ft., May 24, 11. Coll. J. C. Bradley. Allotype: female; with the holotype. Para-types: 7 males, 1 female, with the holotype. EXPLANATION OF PLATE 1. Limnophila lenta, O.S.; wing. (Ithaca, N. Y., Aug. 12, ’10.) 2. Limnophila quadrata, O.S.; wing. (Ithaca, N. Y., May 21, 711.) 3. Limnophila noveboracensis sp. nov. Para-type; wing. (Ithaca, N. Y., July 1 een L) 4. Limnophila similis sp. nov. Para-type; wing. (Johnstown, N. Y., June 26, °10.) 5. Polymera georgia sp. nov. Para-type No. 2, wing. (St. Simon’s Is.; Ga., April- May, 11.) 6. Ormosia apicalis sp. noy. Holotype, wing. (Burton, Ga., May 20, °11.) 7. Furcomyia monticola sp. nov. Para-type, wing. (Black Rock Mt., Ga., May 24, ’11.) —_ Psycue, 1911. Vout. XVIII, Pratre 16. ALEXANDER— TIPULIDZ 1911] Wheeler—New Ants from Mexico and Central America 203 8. Limnophila similis sp. nov. Holotype, male genitalia. (Johnstown, N. Y., June 10, °10.) Pleura of the hypopygium; left side; ventral aspect. d. dorsal apical append.; vy. ventral ap. app. 9. Limnophila adusta,O.S. Male genitalia. (Ithaca, N. Y., July 16, ’11.) As in No. 8 (similis). 10. Limnophila simplex sp. noy. Holotype, male genitalia. (Gainesville, Ga., April 2, °11.) Pleura of the hypopygium; right side; dorsal aspect. p. posterior, or ventral apical app.; a. anterior, or dorsal apical app.; g. 2d gonapophyses; h. hypopy- gium; w. anal tube; x. guard of the penis; y. pleura. 11. Limnophila rufibasis, O.S. Male genitalia. (Ithaca, N. Y., May 22, ’11.) As in No. 10 (simpler). 12. Furcomyia monticola sp. nov. Holotype, male genitalia. (Black Rock Mt., Ga., May 24, 11.) Hypopygium, lateral aspect. m. guard of the penis. j. 2d gonapophyses. |. ventral apical app. 13. Furcomyia monticola sp. nov. Holotype, male genitalia hypopygium; dorsal aspect. h. hypopygium; i. pleura; j. 2d gonapophyses; k. dorsal apical app.; |. ven- tral apical app.; m. guard of the penis. THREE NEW ANTS FROM MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA! By Wituram Morton WHEELER. Pheidole tisiphone sp. nov. Soldier. Length 5.6 mm. Head large; from above subrectangular, longer than broad, a little broader in front than behind, with nearly straight sides and very feebly excised posterior broader and a short, shallow occipital groove; in profile truncated anteriorly, flat- tened above in front and feebly convex below, with a narrow and very deep scrobe on each side, running obliquely backward and downward just over the eye to the outer border of the gula and ending abruptly at the middle of the head. The edges of the scrobes are sharp and parallel, the upper edges passing anteriorly into the frontal carinee which are very widely separated. Frontal area small, deeply im- pressed, rounded behind. Frontal groove obsolete. Eyes small, about 1-6 the distance from the anterior to the posterior border of the head. Clypeus short and very convex, with a faint, median, longitudinal impression, and entire and deflected 1 Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, Harvard Uni- versity, No. 51. 204 Psyche [December anterior border. Mandibles very convex, with two large, incurved apical teeth. Antenne very short and slender, the scapes curved, but scarcely flattened, less than half as long as the scrobe; funicles longer than the scapes; all their joints longer than broad. Thorax robust, especially in front, without humeral callosities; pro- and mesonotum in profile forming a simple subangular convexity, without a con- striction at the pro-mesonotal suture; mesoépinotal constriction well-developed; epinotum small, its base and declivity sloping, not separated by an angle; spines short, slender and rather blunt, longer than broad at their bases, directed upward and slightly backward, less than half as long as the distance between their bases. Petiole from above about 11% times as long as broad, broadest behind, with con- cave sides, its node rather high, strongly compressed anteroposteriorly, in profile with concave anterior and posterior declivities and seen from behind with straight, entire upper border. Postpetiole 114 times as broad as the petiole, convex above, nearly twice as broad as long, with the sides projecting as blunt angles, which are rounded in front and slightly concave behind. Gaster smaller than the head, ellip- tical. Legs long and stout, with distinctly incrassated femora. Whole surface, especially that of the gaster, shining. Mandibles coarsely stria- topunctate. Clypeus transversely rugulose-punctate. Head in front longitudi- nally punctate, transversely and arcuately rugulose on the posterior two thirds except the posterior corners which are rather densely reticulate-rugose. Gular surface more shining, punctate. Thorax above, including the epinotal declivity, transversely rugose, pleur shining, more indistinctly rugose. Petiole and post- petiole rather smooth, the latter coarsely punctate on the sides. Gaster and legs glabrous, with small, indistinct, scattered piligerous punctures. Body, legs and scapes covered with very long, suberect, golden yellow hairs, which are very abundant on the upper surface of the head and clypeus and sparser elsewhere. The hairs on the upper surface of the head are directed backward, those on the clypeus, mandibles and gula forward. Ferruginous red; legs slightly paler and more yellowish; gaster, borders of man- dibles, clypeus, gula and antennal scrobes, black. Described from a single worker taken by Mr. Frederick Knab at Almoloya, Oaxaca, Mexico (Nat. Mus. Coll. Type No. _ ). Two workers taken by the same collector in the same locality may belong to this species but they are so unlike the soldier that I deem it best not to describe them. This extraordinary species is very distinct from all the species of the genus known to me. In the possession of deep antennal scrobes running obliquely downward to the sides of the head, it resembles Ph. aberrans Mayr of South America and Ph. scrobifera Emery of Costa Rica; but the head in these species is much shorter and of a very different shape, the scrobes are shallower and broader, the pilosity and color are very different, and the latter species measures only 2.75 mm. Ph. cavifrons Emery of Uruguay seems THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 83 1909. Idem.—Genera Insectorum (dirigés par P. Wytsman), Bruxelles, 97 me fascicule, Family Chalcidide. pp. 427, 464, 465, 468. Table to the genus as in Ashmead (1904) ; brief diagnosis of the genus, listing cod/iguaye, melleus, persimilis and virtdt- cyaneus, Euderus columbianus (p. 427). (See also Kieffer, bionomic note on codliguaye, Révista Chilena de Historia Natural. Organo del Museo de Valpaiso, VII, p. 111.) NEW AFRICAN 77PULIDA. BY C. P. ALEXANDER, ITHACA, N. Y. The following species were given by Mr. Chas. W, Howard to Prof. Needham, and later turned over to me for examination. ‘There were four specimens, representing three species, of which two are herein character- ized asnew. Mr. Howard’s remark, that “the species were as thick as gnats,” is interesting. Styringomylta howard, n. sp. ‘ Holotype.— ¢, brown and gray ; length, 5.25 mm.; wath 74.75 mm. Mouthparts dark brownish black ; palpi, first segment very short ; second segment large, oval, brown, apical third black ; third more slender, brown, apical two-thirds black ; terminal segment about as thick as the penultimate. Antenne: first segment elongated, gray ; second oval, en- larged at the distal end, remaining segments oval, gradually becoming more elongated to the tip; segments with a short pubescence and long irregular hairs, which are scarcely verticillate ; first segment gray, second dark brown at tip, yellowish at base ; remaining segments pale brownish yellow, the hairs darker ; ommatidia large, coarse, black ; front, vertex, genie and occiput gray, with stout, scattered black bristles. Pronotum large and prominent, showing an unusually generalized condition ; the scutellum U-shaped, encircling the cephalic margin of the mesothoracic prescutum, with about three prominent bristles on the lateral margin ; the scutum is narrower, running to an obtuse point cephalad, with a group of bristles along the lateral margin. Mesonotum: prascutum with a row of bristles along each side of the median line and a row along the lateral margin, this row incurving near the cephalic margin of the sclerite ; scutum with four bristles on each half; the scutellum with a bristle on either side of the median line ; postscutum and metanotum un- armed. Pronotum brown, pale ‘apically, with an inverted U-shaped pale mark on the scutum ; mesonotum priescutum, middle line pale, remainder March, 1912 St THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST brown ; scutum grayish brown, yellow along the cephalic margin passing around the black bristle ; scutellum yellow medially, brown laterad of the bristle , postscutum brown ; metanotum brown; sterna yellow; epimera and episterna reddish brown, forming a narrow longitudinal band. Halteres pale brown, subapically darker brown ; tip yellow. . Legs short and stout, thickly covered with appressed hairs; coxze short, cylin- drical, in the fore leg about as long as the trochanter; in the middle leg shorter than the prominent trochanter ; in the hind leg prominent, much exceeding the shorter and narrower trochanter. Femora rather short, slender proximally, soon thickening so as to become almost clavate distally ; the fore femora have stout, long hairs, which are scattered irregularly amongst the appressed hairs, becoming very numerous near the apical portion of the lower surface of the segment. Tibi slender through- out, tibiz and metatarsi with a few prominent hairs regularly disposed ; the other tarsal segments with a single hair at the tip. The fore femora are as long as the succeeding segments combined ; the hind legs are longer than the others. Fore legs lacking (in the holotype); middle leg, coxz and trochanter light yellow ; femora yellow, with a medial and subapical brown band ; tibiz yellow, with a dark band before the middle and at the tip ; tarsi yellow-tipped with dark brown ; fifth segment and claws dark brown. Hind legs, coxz, trochanters and femora as in the fore leg ; tibiz and tarsi yellow, excepting the last tarsal segment, which is darker. Abdomen with numerous scattered hairs, yellow ; the apical margins of the segments brown. Wings with a faint yellow tinge; costal border and radial veins yellow ; remaining veins darker; a dark suffusion around cross-vein 7-7, at the union of M, with M,,, and along the basal deflection of Cu,. Venation (see fig. 2): S, short, approximated with R basally; its tip opposite the origin of R,; R short, the tip of R, before the middle of the Fic, 2.—Styringomyia howard?, holotype. wing, the sector originating a short distance back from the tip; R, straight, rather long; R,,, very short, oblique; deflection of R,,; very short, scarcely equal to the 7-m cross-vein ; R,,, long. M forks anterior to the THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 85 fork of R.; deflection of M,,, rather long; M, in a line with M, strongly deflected cephalad toward M,,.. nearly, if not quite, obliterating the cross- vein #. Basal deflection of Cu, under the middle of cell rst My. First anal fused with Cu at extreme base ; 2nd anal strongly curved at tip with a spur at the curve, which may be a remnant of a forked anal. Paratype.—¢@. This specimen is much darker than the type; the first six antennal segments are dark, remainder yellowish ; thoracic dorsum dark brown, where it is light brown in the type; yellow of abdo- men replaced by dark brownish gray, etc. This is butan extreme in colour. This species is remarkably similar to the species mentioned by Osten Sacken (Mon. Dipt. N. Am., IV, p. 102, 103). The main differences are in the venation, the elongated cell 1st M, and incurved second anal with a spur at the curve being peculiar to S. howard. Holotype— ¢, Queliniani, Zambesi R., Dec. 20, ’o8 ; coll. Mr. C. W. Howard. Paratype.— ¢, with the type. The only species described from Africa is S. cornigera Speiser (Dipt. aus Deutschland Afrikanischen Kolonieen, p. 130-132, fig. 1*). This insect differs so remarkably from the remaining species of the genus, which otherwise form a homogenous compact group, that I propose to set it off in a new subgenus. Neostyringomyta, subgen. n. Char.—Radius long, its tip beyond the middle of the wing; R, re- markably shortened, no longer than the 7m cross-vein; R,,, sinuate, leaving cell R, very different in shape from that which obtains in the sub- genus Styringomyia; cross-vein m long and prominent ; basal fusion of Cu and ist A very long ; prothorax narrow, scarcely one-fourth as wide as the head ; above the antenne a short, bent spatulate horn. Type.—S. cornigera, Speis. Cornigera is obviously of more recent derivation than the members of the subgenus Styringomyia, and its venation is almost normal ; the retreat of R,,, toward the base of the wing may give a hint to the manner in which the remarkable venation of Zoxorhina came about, perhaps by the fusion of R,,, with some other vein, such as R,. A species was described from the Pacific Islands by Grimshaw in rgor, as S. didyma (Fauna hawatiensts, Vol. 3, pt. 1 (Dipt.), pl. 1, figs. 14-16), from Honolulu, Oahu De Meijere, in his recent paper, “Studien “Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., 52 (1907). 86 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. uber Siid-ostasiat. Dipteren, V,”’+ records the species from much farther west (Batavia, Java, etc.). Styringomyia didyma belongs to the typical subgenus, and is extremely similar to the fossil species described by Loew** and Osten Sacken, as well as to the species under consideration. All of the species of the subgenus Styringomyta, as here limited, are very similar to one another in venation, and the coloration is inclined to be variable. S. didyma differs from the new species as follows: The wings are shorter in ddyma; R,,; is in a direct line with R,, whereas there is a deflection at the origin of Ry,; in S. howard. Didyma has no spur at the curve of 2nd anal. The coloration of the thorax of the two species is different. The male genitalia of the species have not been studied critically, and must furnish the ultimate criterion. It is, of course, possible that when further collections are made, intermediate stations for the genus will be discovered, and then it may be proved that S. howard: is merely a vari- ant of S. didyma. However, I prefer to describe it as distinct at present. In the end of Vol. III of the Monograph, p. VII, Osten Sacken came forward with the surprising intelligence that the genus Sty7ingomyia still existed. Hesays: ‘During my passage through Stockholm in 1872, I made the interesting discovery that the genus, besides its occurence in amber and copal, is found living in Africa. I saw several specimens among the unnamed Diptera from Caffraria (from Wahlberg’s voyage) in the Stockholm Museum. ‘The species was apparently different from that included in the copal, which I possess.” Later, in ‘Studies on Tipulide,”* he states, ‘This singular genus, originally described from specimens included in copal from Zanzibar, and also in amber, has been discovered since as still living in South Africa. In the museum in Stockholm I have ~ seen recent specimens brought from Caffraria by Wahlberg.” Despite Prof. Speiser’s statement (l.c., p. 132), that Osten Sacken probably referred to Lvephantomyia wahlbergi Bergr., when he made the last-quoted statement, I have no doubt but that Osten Sacken saw speci- mens of a true Sty/7ngomyia in Stockholm; an error of this calibre was not customary with Osten Sacken. Mongoma zambesi@, 0. sp. Pe Holotype.— ?, brown; length, 5.75 mm.; wide, 5-5 mm. Rostrum and palpi dark brown; antenne, first two segments dark + Tijschr. voor Entomol., April, 1911, Pp. 40. **Loew, H. Dipterol Beitrige, I, p. 7, with f. (1847). *Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., Bd. XXXI, 1887; Heft., If, pp. 185, 186. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 87 brown, third light brown, remainder lacking. Front, vertex, gene and occiput dark brown. Thorax: Mesothoracic prescutum strongly produced cephalad, entirely covering the pronotum; cervical sclerite elongated, prominent ; transverse suture scarcely V-shaped ; mesothoracic prescutum, dark brown anteriorly, posteriorly with a pale brown median line, which extends back across the scutum, remainder of thoracic dorsum dark brown. Sterna, episterna and epimera brownish yellow ; halteres pale ; legs long, dull brown, at the joints somewhat darker; no processes on the fore femora, as described for AZ. fragillima and M. curtipennis. Abdomen uniform brown. Wings hyaline, costal margin yellow, stigma rather indistinct. Vena- tion (see ~fig. 3), Sc very long, as in all members of the genus; R= long, cross-vein 7 near its tip. R, gently arcuated, forking far before the tip ——< Fic 3.—Mgngornia zambezia, holotype. of Sc, and in a line with R,,,; the cross-vein 7 far before the fork of Rees; R, short, oblique ; R; long, in a line with R,,,. R,,; fusing with M,,, to form the proximo-anterior border of cell M,, thus obliterating the 7-1 cross-vein. M forks at the lower corner of cell M,, M,,, departing cephalad, fusing with R,,,; for a distance and finally separating, free at the margin; M, in a line with M. Cu short, its fork far back, the free position of Cu, very long, fusing with M, at the fork of M, and continuing to the margin so fused. Cu, fuses with rst A far back from the wing-margin, so that 1st A+ Cu, is over twice the length of the free portion of Cu, alone. 2nd A is very short, suggesting the condition found in Petaurista. Helotype.— ?, Queliniani, Zambesi R., Dec. 20, ’o8; Mr. C. W. Howard. The genus AZongoma, of which ten species have been described, has a world-wide distribution in the tropics ; two species have been described from the West Indies, five species from the East Indies and Australia, and three species from Africa. The genus is distinguished by the excessive length of Sc, the obliteration of the radio-medial cross-vein by the long $8 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, fusion of R,,; with M,,,., and the decided tendency of Cu, to fuse with rst A. The West Indian species (manca and pallida Will., Dipt. St. Vincent, p. 291-293, figs. 6, 7, of paddida) and possibly 17. albitarsia Dol. (E. Ind.), also, which I have not seen, are the most generalized members of the genus, in that Cu, and ist A are distinct to the wing-margin. The inter- mediate group, containing /rentepohlit Wied. (see Wiedemann, Aussereur. Zweifl. Insekt., I, 551; 18, tab. VIb, fig. r2 ; a better figure in De Meijere, Tijd. voor Ent., rgi1, pl. IV, fig. 42); /ragi//ima Westw. (see Westwood, ‘Trans. Ent. Sce. Lond., 1881, pl. 17, fig. 1; also Needham, 23rd Rept., N.Y. St. Ent., pl. 20, fig. 6), and exornata Berg. (Bergr., Entomol. Tidskrift, 1888, opp. p. 130, fig. 3), has Cu, fused with rst A for a short distance back from the tip (Cu,+ tst A less than one-half Cu,),- A third stage in the specialization of this part occurs in JZ. pennipes O. S. (E. Ind). (See De Meijere, l.c., pl. IV, fig. 39.) The maximum of specialization, as far as I know, occurs in the present species, where the fusion of Cu, with rst A is notable, and suggests the condition obtained in the families Empidide and Dolichopodide. Of the three described African species, JZ. zambeste, comes closest, apparently, to exornata. M. fragillima (and probably AL. curtipennis also, according to Speiser, who compares it with /ragi//ima), has vein My; separating from Cu,, and continuing distinct to the wing-margin ; both of these species possess a curious spur-like structure at the base of the fore femora, which does not occur in JZ. sambesie. I havea ¢ of AZ. exornata Bergr., taken at Queliniani, Zambesi R., Dec. 20, ’08, in which the fore legs are lacking, and I am unable to state whether or not this structure occurs there. JA/. exornata has been recorded from Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa ; Caffraria, KE. Cape Coiony, and Amani, German E. Africa. It is apparently widely dis- tributed throughout Eastern Africa. ON THE OCCURRENCE OF A EUROPEAN SPECIES OF MYMARID IN NORTH AMERICA. BY A. ARSENE GIRAULT, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, Up to the present I have been successful in finding but a single species of the family Mymaride, common to Europe and North America. This species is Anaphes pratensis Foerster, which I have captured in Illinois, and of whose characteristics I write of in a paper on Chalcidoidea, to be published soon in Germany ; the species is recorded from America March, 1912 [Reprinted from JouRNAL OF THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL Society, Vol. XX, No. 4, December, r912.] A REVISION OF THE GENUS BRACHYPREMNA OSTEN SACKEN (TIPULID, DIPTERA).' By Cuas. P. ALEXANDER, IrHaca, N. Y. The genus Brachypremna was erected by Osten Sacken in 1886.7 for Tipula dispellens Walker; at the same time Tipula breviventris Wiedemann was definitely referred to this genus. The following year, in part 2 of his “Studies on Tipulide,” the same author described two new species, pictipes and wnicolor, and gave a key (J. c., p. 239) for the separation of the four known species. In 1900, Wil- liston* described the fifth species, similis. I have had for study some fifty specimens of Brachypremne@ received from the various Eastern Museums, and in this material I found all of the known forms except- ing pictipes. There was also included a new species, hereinafter described, and a single specimen of the hitherto unrecognized Tipula albimana of Wiedemann. This name is preoccupied by T. albimana Fabricius (Mantissa Ins., vol. 2, p. 232, 1787) and I propose the name candida for the South American species. The seven species at present known are separated by the included key. Brachypremna eocenica Meunier was recently* described from the baltic amber. 1 Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory, Cornell University. 2 Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., Vol. 30, p. 161. * Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., Vol. 31, pt. 2; pp. 239, 240. * Biologia Centrali-Americana, Dipt., Vol. 1, Supplement, p. 229. 5 Monograph of the Tipulide and Dixide in the Baltic Amber, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zodl., Vol. 4, p. 394; pl. 16, fig. 6. (Paris, 1906.) 225 226 Journat New York Enromotocicat Society. [Vol. XX. I am under obligations to Mr. E. T. Cresson, Jr., for the loan of the material in the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; to Mr. Grossbeck for the American Museum forms; to Mr. Samuel Henshaw for the especially desired specimens of Brachypremna uni- color from the Loew Collection, now in the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge; to Mr. Fred’k Knab for the extensive collec- tions of the U. S. National Museum, collections which contained all of the six species that I have examined; to Dr. J. Chester Bradley for the Cornell University specimens, especially rich in B. dispellens, and to Mr. E. B. Williamson for some very interesting material, collected on the author’s recent trip to British Guiana. I express my gratitude to all of the above gentlemen, and to others hereinafter mentioned. CHARACTERS OF THE GENUS. Head: rostrum elongated; nasus distinct, cylindrical, bearing a number of elongated hairs at its apex; maxillary palpi elongated; segments one and two short, subequal; segment three, half again as long as the second; last as long as two and three together; antennz short; first segment cylindrical; second, globular; flagellar segments elongate-ovate, gradually more slender and elongated, bearing scat- tered hairs. Thorax: pronotum and collare slender, distinct, so that the head is separated from the mesonotum; legs long and slender, the tarsi almost as long as the femora and tibie combined; hind tibie spurred; the fore and middle tibie apparently spurless. Wing venation: Sc long, ending opposite (unicolor) or beyond the fork of Rs; Rs strongly arcuated at its origin, almost square but not spurred, longest in unicolor, shortest in candida; R,,, of varying length, shortest, relatively, in unicolor, longest, relatively, in candida; crossvein r long connecting R,,, at the fork; R very pale, vertical, basal deflection of R,,, prominent in all the species excepting unicolor; cross-vein rm, when present, always short; cross-vein m very long, forming the distal face of cell 1st M,; petiole of cell M, moderately long except in unicolor where it is very short; basal deflection of Cu, slightly beyond the fork of M, except in unicolor where it is located at, or proximad of, the fork; fusion of M, and Cu, short, almost nil in unicolor, moderate in most species, longest in Dee., 1912.) ALEXANDER: REVISION OF BRACHYPREMNA. 227 candida; cell 1st M, large, subquadrate in all the species, except unicolor where it is almost triangular; 2d anal very short, straight, leaving cell 2d A very long and narrow. From the above it will be seen that wnicolor is the most distinct species, venationally, with candida second. The other species show a great similarity as regards the course of the veins; a character that I have used, should be explained; in the comparison between the length of the sector, beyond the strong basal arcuation, the straight portion of the vein is compared with that portion of M,,, lying between the cross-veins r-m and m, i. e., cephalic margin of cell ist M, (discal). Abdomen: rather long and narrow. Hypopygium (see text fig- Hypopygium of Brachypremna dispellens Walk., dorsal aspect. ure): margin of the 9th sternite convex with a broad, obtuse notch; pleural pieces elongate, cylindrical (in lateral outline, triangular) ; with a deep groove on the ventral face; outer face beset with long hairs; apical appendage, elongate, hairy, the basal half rather fleshy, the apical half chitinized; viewed from the side the chitinized tip is strongly curved with the tip flattened and rather expanded; on the outer side at the base of the chitin, is a stout conical tooth; on the inner face at the end of the fleshy portion of the arm is a fleshy, 228 Journat New York Enrtomotocicat Society. [Vol. XX. elongated lobe, beset with stout hairs; the guard of the penis is short and stout; anal tube very short. In a position of rest, the appendages tightly fit into grooves on the ventral side of the pleural pieces. Ovipositor of the female with the valves rather short, straight, pointed. Key To THE Species oF Brachypremna O. S. 1. Basal deflection of F,,,; obliterated, so that R.,, and Ry, arise directly from the end of the radial sector; Rs elongate; cell 1st M, sub-triangular; legs mnitorm ‘brown. © (Antilles) Sey spree .emtate otetaiicte ected ieee unicolor O. S. Basal deflection of R,,,; prominent; Rs shorter; cell 1st M, sub-quadrate; legs variegated with white or yellowish-white...................+-se00e 2 2. Femora with the tip dark, brownish-blacke. ve ie uy Weraa, : : ‘ (eh ib Able Pi be THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 333 NEW SPECIES OF FURCOMYIA (TIPULID A). BY CHAS. P. ALEXANDER, ITHACA, N. Y.! The crane-flies herein characterized as new are, with one exception, Neotropical forms. There have been described by previous writers 15 species of South American Zimnodini that I have no hesitation in referring to the genus /urcomyia (= Dicranomyta of authors). With the single exception of /. muscosa End. (Ecuador), the forms are Chilian or Pata- gonian, and are species named by Macquart,* Bianchard,® Philippi‘ and Bigot.’ No species have been mentioned from the various countries of Middle America, and it is probably because of this fact that so many of the forms received proved to be novelties. The material included is the property of Eastern Museums, as follows : U. S. National Museum, received through Mr. Frederick Knab, and the American Museum of Natural History, received through Mr. J. A. Grossbeck. I express my sincere gratitude to both of these gentlemen for their kind help in this respect. A Key to the spotted-winged Furcomyie. (South America (northern portion), Central America and the Antilles.) 1. Sc short, ending before, or opposite, or only slightly beyond, the OPN GE INGe sodouvecepeacccsecsocnge onoacocdaceceecusedc Zs Sc long, ending far beyond the origin of Rs. ............5...... 5- 2. Wing-marking abundant, forming a network, ................--4- 3. Wing-marking scanty, confined to the neighbourhood of veins...... 4. 3. Legs with the femora uniform brown apically ; wing pattern neque oo 3 Su cponoce ocwpSeoede Do osephaAeseeer reticulata, sp. n. (Cuba) Legs with the femora yellowish apically with a broad gray subapical yor TAs PEKIN NAHE oso eo coon oodooO NDOn muscosa Enderl. (Ecuador) 4. Legs black, a reddish annulus far before the tip of the femur; no supernumerary cross-vein in cell R,; seam on cord of wing, dark brown, narrow ; antennz dark except at base..... osterhoutt, sp. n. (Panama) 1. Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory, Cornell University. 2. Macquart, Pierre Justin; Dipt. Exot., Vol. I, pt. 1, p. 72 (1838). 3. Blanchard, Emile; in Historia fisica y politica de Chili Zoologia, Tome 7, pp. 837-344, esp. pp. 340-343 (1852). 4. Philippi, Rodolfo; Verhand. zool-bot. gesells. Wien., Vol. 15, pp. 597, 598, 602-617, 780, 781; esp. 612-614 (1865). 5. Bigot, Jacques; Mission Scientifique du Cap Horn, 1882-1883; Tome 6, 2nd part, pp. 5-10; esp. pp. 8, 9, pl. 2, fig. 2 (1888). November, 1912 334 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Legs with the femora dark brown at the tip with an indistinct sub- apical ring ; a cross-vein in cell R,; seam on cord pale brown, broadsantennzespales <5... or erence eerie te translucida, sp. Nn. (Panama) 5. Wings with an abundant pattern in the cells..........g/oriosa, sp. n. (Guatemala) Wings with the markings scanty and more or less confined to the neighbourhood of veins. Ab ; aoduc ab oncolt 6. Wing hyaline, with the rents Sone ; iets Hee a brown band ; tibisetandltarsiuniformydarksyerisettel- peerless .cisent, Sp. 0. (Guatemala) Wing dusky, with the markings dark brown ; no pleural band; tibiz at tip, andi tarsi; Orange) DrOWDleernvteletetelerchelet-r-ietat-tetaieter lutzi, sp. n. (Brit. Guiana) Furcomyia reticulata, sp. n. Antenne brown; thorax yellow, with an irregular brown median stripe ; legs yellow, darkening to brown apically ; wings hyaline, reticulated with brown marks. ?.—Length, 4.5-6 mm ; wing, 5.3-5.4 mm. 9 .—Head: rostrum yellowish brown; palpi dark brownish black. Antenne, basal segments pale, whitish ; flagellum light brown, the seg- ments rounded, becoming oval and then elongated toward the tip of the antenne. Front, vertex and occiput dull yellow, the vertex and occiput prolonged caudad, with two brown stripes above and brown on the sides. Thorax: pronotum brown, thickly yellow pollinose ; a small brown median spot at the caudal margin of the scutum. Mesenotum, praescutum dull yellow sericeous , a broad, light brown median stripe, overlain by a dark brown stripe, whose margins are very irregular; two interrupted brown stripes on either side of the median mark, the outermost very pale on the margin of the sclerite ; scutum dull brown, with four brown stripes, c ntinuations of the lateral praescutal vitte ; the two stripes on each side unite at the caudal margin of the sclerite and run half across the scutellum ; scutellum very pale, whitish yellow, sending a median prolongation cephalad onto the scutum; postnotum brown. Pleure light brown, thickly pale yellowish pollinose. Halteres very pale yellow, the knob brown. Legs: coxe, trochanters and femora dull yellow, the femora darkening to brown apically ; extreme base of the tibiz whitish, rest of tibie and the tarsi dark brown. Wings, veins brown, except costa, which is light yellow and black alternated ; membrane hyaline, costal cell with THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 35 small, equally-spaced brown marks ; from the base to the tip of R, about 19, these marks a trifle narrower than the hyaline interspaces ; five large brown blotches along the radial cells, the first at the base of vein M ; second in m‘ddle of cell R; third just before the origin of Rs; fourth over the fork of Rs, and the last at the tip of R,,s, irregular; all the cells with narrow brown marks across them producing a net-work. Venation (see fig. p): Se short, Sc, ending before the origin of Rs, Sc, about opposite it ; Sc, longer than Sc,; Rs angular at base ; basal deflection of M,..2 long, so that the inner end of cell 1st M, is almost on a level with cell Rg; basal deflection of Cu, before fork of M, sometimes far before ; cross-vein m far out, so that the deflection of M, is much longer than mm. Abdomen, tergum, segments brown, darkest on caudal margin, paler on the sides ; sternum dull yellow ; a dark brown median spot on caudal margin of each sclerite. Holotype, @.—Pinar del Rio, Cuba ; 1900 (Palmer and Riley). Paratype, .—Type locality, March 27, 1900 (Palmer and Riley). Types in U. S. Nat. Mus. coll. (No. 15,133). Furcomyia osterhoutt, sp. n. Whitish ; mesothoracic preescutum with a broad median stripe and two short lateral ones ; femora black, with a postmedian reddish annulus ; wings with brown spots, bands and seams. ?.—Length, 6.5 mm (about) ; wing, 5.7 mm. @.—Head: rostrum and palpi dark brownish black. Antenne, basal segments yellowish brown, flagellum very dark brown, almost black. Front, vertex and occiput pale, whitish, tinged with brown. Thorax: pronotum dark brown above, abruptly pale, yellowish white on the sides. Mesonotum pale yellowish white, the median stripe broad, dark brown ; the lateral stripes appear on the hind margin of the preescu- tum and run back across the scutum and scutellum; at the caudal end of the latter sclerite they unite and form a very broad median band, which occupies the dorsum of the postnotum. Pleura pale, whitish. Hialteres, knob and most of the stem dark brown. Legs: cox and trochanters yellowish brown ; femora black, with a distinct reddish annulus at about three-fourths the length ; tibiee reddish at base, rest of tibiae and tarsi shiny black. Wing with a slight yellowish tinge, especially in the cephalic cells ; a very narrow brown mark from / caudad ; a brown mark from the tip of Sc, down beyond Rs; a brown mark at tip of R, and on7; a narrow seam along the cord; outer end of cell 1st M, seamed with brown ; most 33C THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. of the veins seamed with brown ; apical portions of the radial ceils suffused with brown, Venation: (See fig. gq.) Sc ends beyond origin of Rs, Sc, at its tip ; cross-vein 7 at tip of R,; Rs arcuated at origin ; basal deflec- tion of Cu, before the fork of M. Abdomen, tergum yellowish, the apex of each sclerite brown, with a narrow brown median band ; sternum, markings less clearly defined. Holotype, 9.—Bocas d’Toro, Panama; Sept. 28, 1903. (P. Osterhout, coll.) Type in U. S. Nat. Mus. coll. (No. 15,130.) Furcomyia translucida, sp.n. Whitish ; mesothoracic prescutum with a narrow median brown stripe ; femora darkened at the tip, pale subapically ; wings with brown spots and bands ; a supernumerary cross-vein in cell Rg. ¢.—Length, 5.8 mm.; wing, 6.9 mm.; middle leg, femur, 5.7 mm.; tibia, 5.2 mm. g.—Head: rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne, basal seg- ments brown, flagellum yellowish, the terminal three or four segments brown; segments of the flagellum short, globular, the apical segments more elongated. Front, vertex and occiput light yellow, the vertex with a large brown spot in the centre. Thorax: pronotum dark brown, becoming paler, yellowish white on the sides ; mesonotum, praescutum very pale, almost white, with a clearly- defined dark brown median stripe, rather narrow, ending at the suture ; scutum and scutellum pale, whitish, with a dark brown stripe on each lobe, running backward and meeting on the caudal margin of the scutel- Jum ; postnotum with a very broad brown median mark resulting from the confluence of the scutellar stripes. Pleurs very pale, whitish ; a brownish mark on the propleure above the fore coxa. MHalteres pale, knob dark brown. Legs: coxe and trochanters whitish; femora yellowish brown ; a cleirer yellow subapical ring, tip broadly brown, the extreme apex again rather lightened ; tibiz and tarsi brown, gradually increasing to dark brown. Wings: subhyaline or very faintly yellowish ; a brown mark at the humeral cross-vein extending down across the arculus ; a second mark at tip of Sc, and down across Rs almost to M ; a third, extending into a cross-band, from the stigma, where it is darkest, unbroken across the cord ; a brown seam on the supernumerary cross-vein in cell Rs; outer end of cell 1st M, seamed with brown. Venation: (See fig. r.) Se short, end- ing just beyond the origin of Rs ; Sc. just opposite origin of Rs; R, ex- tending beyond cross-vein 7-, 7 at its tip. Rs square at its origin and THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 337 spurred, in a line with R,,,; a strong cross-vein in cell Rg at about two- thirds of the length of the cell ; cell rst M, rather elongate ; basal deflec- tion of Cu, at the fork of M. Abdomen: tergum pale yellowish white, apical fourth dark brown ; apex sternum similar, but the dark apex not so clearly defined. Holotype.— 4. Bocas d’Toro, Panama; Sept. 28, 1903. (P. Osterhout, coll.) Type in U. S. Nat. Mus. coll. (No. 15,129.) Furcomyia gloriosa sp. n. Antenne brown; thorax gray, dorsum striped with darker; legs, femora dark on apical half, with a subterminal yellow ring ; wing spotted and suffused with brown. 2° .—Length about 6.5 mm.; wing, 8.4 mm. 2 .—Head: rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne, basal seg- ments very dark brown ; basal five flagellar segments lighter brown, apical segments dark brown. Front, vertex and occiput dull gray, with a black mark on vertex along inner margin of the eye. Thorax : pronotum dull greenish gray pollinose, with a broad black stripe on the side of the scutum. ‘Mesonotum, prescutum dark brown, thickly grayish pollinose, with a black stripe on either side of the narrow median gray line. running from the anterior margin of the sclerite almost to the suture. Lateral stripes short, broad, beginning behind the pseudo- sutural fovea, running across the suture and covering most of the scutum ; scutum in middle and along the caudal margin dark brown ; scutellum and postnotum dark brown. Pleure black, greenish gray pollinose. Halteres, stem pale yellowish brown, knob dark brown. Legs, coxee and trochanters dark brown, the former gray pollinose; femora light yellow, the apical quarter dark brown, with a subapical yellow ring. Wings hyaline or nearly so ; costal cell with four brown marks, the last at Sc, the 3rd over the origin of Rs ; a large square mark at the tip of R, (stigmal) extending down over the fork of Rs; cells 2nd R, and R, with large brown spots filling most of the cells ; cells R; to Cu, suffused with lighter grayish brown and with hyaline spots; basal and anal cells with smaller brown spots ; a series of about four in cell rst A. Ends of veins Cun, 1st and 2nd A, with broad, grayish brown suffusions. Veins brown; Sc and R yellow, except where located in the brown markings, where they are black. Venation: (See fig. j.) Sc long, ending far beyond the origin of Rs, but slightly before its middle ; Rs long; basal deflection of ‘Cu, far before the fork of M. 338 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Abdomen, tergum dark brown; sternum lighter brown, extreme caudal margins of the sclerites light yellow. Holotype.— ?. Totonicipan, Guatemala, Cent. Am., 1902. (Dr. G. Eisen.) Type in U.S. Nat. Mus. coll. (No. 15,132.) This insect agrees superficially with muscosa End.* of Ecuador, but has Sc much longer, legs very different in colour, and is a much smaller species. Juscosa has a supernumerary cross-vein in cell Rs, but this may not be normal, as it is not mentioned in the specific description. Furcomyia eiseni, sp. n. Antenne black throughout; body yellow; legs, femora yellow, passing into brown on the tibi and tarsi ; wings hyaline, with six brown spots along costa, the second, largest, at origin of Rs. ¢.—Length, from 4.5-5 mm.; wing, 6.3-7.5 mm. 9 .—Length, from 4.5-6 mm.; wing, 5-7-7 mm. Head: rostrum and palpi black. Antenne black throughout in the $, with conspicuous long hairs, not so noticeable in the 9. Front, vertex and occiput blackish, grayish pollinose in front. Thorax: pronotum dull yellow’; mesonotum dull reddish yellow, with a very indistinct darker median stripe and darker lateral stripes which are brownish, these continued back on the scutum, where they cover the lobes; scutellum and postnotum brownish. Pleure yellow, with a more or less conspicuous dark brown stripe running from the cer- vical sclerites to the postnotum. Halteres yellow at base ; apical half of the stem and the knob brown. Legs: coxz and trochanters light yellow ; femora yellow at base, passing into brown ; tibiz and tarsi darker brown. Wings hyaline ; cells C and Sz slightly yellowish ; six brown marks along the costal margin on the cross-veins, as follows: A brown mark at the wing base ; a large brown rectangular mark at the origin of Rs ; a third at the tip of Sc, where it is continued down over the fork of Rs, here meeting the fourth blotch, located at the tip of R,; the marks continuing across the cord ; wing subapically largely dark ; outer end of cell 1st My seamed with brown; a brown mark in the end of cell 2nd R, and cell Rs; ends of veins Cu,, Cu, and rst A, with small brown clouds ; a large spot at end of znd A. Venation: (See fig. s.) Sc long, ending just before the fork of Rs, Sc, at its tip ; Ks square at its origin ; base of cell rst M, arcuated, nearly on a level with the inner end of cell Rg (as in stu/ta O.S.); *1gt2. Z001. Jahrbuch.; pt. 1, pp. 75, 76; fig. W'. (Dicranomyia. ) THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 339 basal deflection of Cu, just beyond the fork of M ; Cu, generally shorter than the deflection of Cu,. Abdomen, tergum dark brown, the bases of the sclerites somewhat paler ; sternum light yellow, the caudal and lateral margins conspicuously dark brown. Holotype—¢. Aguna, Guatemala, Cent. Am. (2,000 ft.) ; Sept., 1902. (Dr. G. Eisen, coll.) Allotype—?. With the type. Paratypes.—5, ¢ 2. With the type. Types in U S. Nat. Mus. coll. (No. 15,131), except one paratype in author’s collection. Furcen yi lutet, sp. n. Antenne black ; body orange ; abdomen brown ; legs black, tip of tibize and the tarsi pale, orange yellow ; wings dusky, with brown marks. @.—Length about 6 mm.; wing, 7.3 mm.; middle leg, femur, 5.4 mm.; tibia, 5.8 mm. Head: rostrum and palpi dark brownish black. Antenne dark brownish black. Front thickly gray pollinose ; vertex and occiput dark orange brown, brighter orange on the occiput. Thorax: pronotum and mesonotal prescutum and scutum deep orange ; scutellum and postnotum much lighter coloured, yellowish orange. Pleurz orange yellow, lighter coloured ventrally. Halteres, stem yellowish basally, darkening to the blackish knob, Legs: cox and trochanters orange yellow, extreme base of femora yellow ; remainder of femora and most of the tibiz: dark brownish black ; tibize with the apical eight pale orange brown; tarsi orange brown. Wings suffused with dark brown, costal and subcostal cells and the radial cells very dark ; dark brown spots arranged as follows: a rounded mark at the origin of Rs ; one at fork of Rs, continued down the cord as a broken seam ; a round spot at end of R, ; outer end of cell rst M, seamed with dark brown. Venation : Sc long, ending nearer to the fork of Rs than to the origin, Sc, at tip of Sc,. Cross-vein 7 at the tip of Rs; deflection of Ry,; long ; basal deflection of Cu, far before the fork of M. Abdomen, tergum, segments dark brown ; sternum light yellow. Holotype—¢?. Tukeit, British Guiana; July 19, tgtr. (F. E. Lutz, coll.) Type in American Museum of Natural History. 340 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Furcomyia omissa, sp. n. Small; dark brown ; wings dark, stigma present ; Sc, short, Sc, ap- parently lacking. 9 .—Length, 3.7-4 mm.; wing, 4-4.2 mm. 9.—Head: rostrum and palpi dark brownish black. Antenne brownish black. Front, vertex and occiput brown. Thorax: mesonotum, prascutum with a thick brownish pollen, be- coming grayish on the sides of the sclerite ; a dark brown median stripe beginning near the anterior end of the sclerite, becoming narrower and finally obsolete before the suture ; scutum, scutellum and postnotum dark brown. Pleurz dark brown, with a sparse gray bloom on the middle of the thorax. Halteres dark brown ; remainder of femora, tibiz and tarsi dark brown. Wings somewhat suffused with darker ; a small oval brown stigma. Venation: (See fig.o.) Sc short, ending far before the origin of Rs, Sc, not evident. Rs rather short, about one and one-half times the length of the deflection of R,,;; cross-vein m present in the type, absent in the paratype. Abdomen dark brown. Holotype.— 9. Aguna, Guatemala, Cent. Am. (Dr. G. Eisen.) Paratype.— $. Same as the type. Types in U. S. Nat. Mus. coll. (No. 15,139.) Furcomyia knabi sp. n. Like /iberta O.S., but ventral lobe of ¢ hypopygium produced entrad in a long slender arm. ¢.—Length, 6.5-7 mm.; wing, 8.8-9 8 mm. ?.—Length, 7 mm.; wing, 9 mm. Head: rostrum and palpi dark brownish black ; antenne black. Front, vertex and occiput clear gray. Thorax : dorsum of the mesonotal prescutum suffused with brown, general colour brownish gray, much browner than the clear gray of the head ; stripes on thoracic dorsum ill-defined ; scutum dull gray, the scutellum very light gray ; postnotum gray. Pleure grayish. Halteres yellow, knob brown. Legs: coxz and trochanters brown ; femora, tibie and tarsi dark brown. Wings almost as in /erta O.S., not pallid at base ; a faint stigma at the tip of R,. Venation: (See fig. m.) Abdomen gray. Hypopygium: (See fig. w.) Dorsal aspect, gth fite yery convex, ending ina small knob deeply bifid; pleurx long, cylindrical, bearing two apical lobes; the dorsal lobe slender, chitinized, ending in an acute point; ventral lobe yellow, produced entad THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 34 into a long arm _chitinized, its apex blunt but slightly notched. Ventral aspect, gth tergite almost straight on caudal margin ; pleura short, the inner caudal angle produced into a long appendage, which is tufted with yellow hairs at its tip; guard of the penis long, enlarged basally, projecting slightly beyond the apices of the pleural appendage ; ventrad of the pleural arm is a slender acicular appendage. Holotype—¢. Totonicipan, Guatemala, 1902! (Dr. G. Eisen.) Allotype—¢. Antigua, Guatemala. (Dr. G. Eisen.) Paratypes.—¢ ¢. Totonicipan, Guatemala. (Dr. G. Eisen.) Types in U. S. Nat. Mus. coll, (No. 15,135). One paratype in author's collection. Like /iberta O. S. (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1859, p. 209; Mono- graph Dipt. N. Am., Vol. 4, p. 69), of the Eastern U. S., but larger, the mesothoracic prascutum browner and the stripes indistinct. In /tberta the # genitalia (fig. u) consists of short pleura, the swollen ventral lobes produced entad in a blunt knob, which bears two conspicuous caudad- projecting spines at its tip, the ventral one very stout, spine-like, the dorsal one more slender. In Avaés the pleurz are longer,.the lobes short, the ventral one produced into a long arm, which. is. slightly notched. apically. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI. Fig. h. Wing of /urcomyia andicola, sp. n. CO it f f. insignifica, Sp. 0. Lath s F. gloriosa, sp. n. ok. : EF: argentina, Sp. n. elt ss FP. liberoides, sp. N. Wes i, £. knabi, sp. n. ui S F. simillima, sp. n. ey ' iit, omissa, Sp. N. ap: sf Fi reticulata, sp. N. a fat : W osterhout?, sp. 0. ets ; F, translucida, sp. 0). ats Me ff. eiseni, sp. n. cone te OLS Siumosa, sp. n. “u. Hypopygium of / /iberta Osten Sacken. v=ventral apical appendage. d=dorsal apical appendage. “ vy. Hypopygium of /. /iberoides, sp. 0. is fF. knabi, sp. n. (To be continued.) Can. ENT., VOL. XLIV PLaTe XI. FURCOMYIA (TIPULIDAE, DIPT.). THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 361 NEW SPECIES OF FURCOMY/4 (TIPULID2:). BY CHAS. P. ALEXANDER, ITHACA, N, Y. (Continued from page 341.) Furcomyia libertoides, sp. 0. Closest allied to Zberta O. S. of the Eastern U.S., but differs as follows: The prascutal stripes are not clearly defined, the middle of the dorsum being suffused with bright brown ; tergum of abdomen brownish, not clear gray; wings with the stigma conspicuous, rectangular, not a narrow seam to cross-vein 7. Hypopygium from above—see fig. 5.). The pleural piece triangular, the ventral apical appendage fleshy, its inner margin produced into a point’ which is directed cephalad ; two short spines about equal in size, projecting caudad on the middle of this appendage ; dorsal arm, or apical appendage, rather short, gently curved. Venation, fig. |. Length about 6.5-7.5 mm.; wing, 8.7-8.8 mm. Holotype.—¢. Marin Co., Cal.; March 23, 1897. Paratypes.— gs 5. With the type. The material is part of the Wheeler collection ; one paratype in author’s collection. Furcomyia simillima, sp. n. Yellowish thorax, with a dark brown median stripe; halteres very long. ¢@.— Length about 5.5 mm.; wing, average, 6.8 mm. ?.—Length about 5 8 mm.; wing, average, 7.4 mm. Head: rostrum and palpi dark brown, Antenne, first segment dark brown, thickly gray pruinose, remaining segments dark brownish black. Front, vertex and occiput brown, thickly gray pruinose, producing a gray effect. Thorax: cervical sclerites dark, almost black ; pronotum light dull yellow, dark brown along the dorsal median line. Mesonotum bright brownish yellow, becoming grayish on the sides; a broad dark brown median stripe continued from the pronotum, ending just before the suture } lateral stripes indistinct, grayish brown, beginning behind the pseudo- suture, continued across the suture and suffusing the lobes of the scutum ; median line of the scutunr and the scutellum paler yellowish white ; postnotum brown; metanotum light yellow. Pleure light yellow, be- coming grayish toward the metapleure. _ Halteres very long, extreme bas¢ yellowish, rest dark brown. Legs: coxe and trochanters yellowish ; femora yellow becoming somewhat darker apically; tibia .and? tarsi December, 1912 362 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. yellowish brown. Wings subhyaline; no stigmal spot ; veins yellowish brown. Venation: (See fig. n.) Sc ending before origin of Rs, Sc, far before tip so that Sc, is long, somewhat shorter than Rs ; basal deflection of Cu, before the fork of M. Abdomen: tergum yellowish brown, apices of the sclerites narrowly paler ; sternum light yellow. Holotype.— 4. ‘Totonicipan, Guatemala. (Dr. G. Eisen.) Allotype— 9. Antigua, Guatemala. (Dr. G. Eisen.) Paratypes.—11 ¢s, 8 9s. Quichi (July, 1902); Antigua and Totonicipan (July, 1902) ; Guatemala. Types in U.S. Nat. Mus. coll. (No. 15,134.) Paratypes in author’s collection. Resembles particeps Doane (Ent. News, Jan., ’08, p. 7), from north- western U.S, but head is more gray, abdomen much lighter coloured and the thoracic stripes different. Furcomyia andicola, sp. n. Head gray ; thorax brownish yellow ; wings with scanty brown marks. 9 .—Length, 8.1 mm.; wing, 11.2 mm. 9 .—Head: rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne, basal seg- ments brown, flagellar segments very dark brown. Front, vertex and occiput gray. Thorax: pronotum dull yellow, the dorsum indistinctly suffused with brown. Mesonotum dull brownish yellow, a broad brown median stripe and shorter, less distinct lateral ones ; scutum reddish brown, suffused with darker brown ; scutellum and postnotum brown, with a grayish brown bloom. Pleurze dark brown. Halteres, stem greenish at base, darkening to brown at the tip. Legs: cox greenish, femora brownish yellow, the tip clearer yellow ; tibiz light brown, darkened at tip ; tarsi brown. Wings subhyaline, veins brown, C, Sc and R, more yellowish ; a large, rectangu- lar brown stigma, which is continued back over the fork of Rs as a rounded spot ; narrow brown seams on the cord and outer end of cell rst M.. Venation (see fig. h.): Se ending just beyond origin of Rs; Sc, removed from the tip so that Sc, is rather more than half as long as Rs; Rs about one and one-half the length of the deflection of R,.;; basal deflection of Cu, before the fork of M. Abdomen: tergum and sternum brown, the apices of the sclerites yellowish. It is probable that, in life, the insect is quite greenish. Holotype.— ?. San Antonio, Bolivia. (Received from Staudinger- Bang- Haas.) THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 363 Type in author’s collection. Agrees most closely with pAatfa Phil, which has the thorax gray and the wing-pattern very different, three black spots in cells rst R, and 2nd Ry Furcomyia tnsignifica, sp. 0. Head brownish gray ; thorax reddish brown, dirker medially. 2.—Length, 8.5 mm.; wing, 9.6 mm.; fore leg, femur, 59 mm.; tibia, 7 3 mm. 2? .—Head : rostrum, palpi and antenne dark brown. Front, vertex and occiput brownish gray. Thorax: pronotum yellowish brown. Mesonotum, preescutum reddish brown, darkest brown medially on prescutum ; paler, yellowish, on the humeral angles ; pleur brownish yellow, brightening to yellow on the sternum. Halteres long, slender, brown, brighter at the base. Legs long, slender ; coxee and trochanters yellowish ; femora yellowish brown ; tibie and tarsi brown. Wings hyaline, veins light brown ; stigma barely indicated, rectangular, very pale. Venation (see fig. i.): Sc short, Sc, quite removed from the tip of Sc, ; Rs short, not much longer than the deflection of R,,;; basal deflection of Cu, far before the fork of M. Abdomen: tergum dark brown on the basal segments, lighter browm on the apical segments ; sternum light brown. Holotype.— 2. Iquico, Peru. (Received from Staudinger-Bang-Haas ) Type in author’s collection. This species cannot be referred to fad/ida Macq, which has a triangular cell rst M, which bears a spur, this character of an appendi- culate cell also separating e/guéfensts Blanch. The other species with unspotted wings, favida Phil. and chlorotica Phil., are quite different insects, specimens of which are before me, and will be redescribed in a later paper. Furcomyia argentina, sp. 0. Head gray ; thorax gray, darker on dorso-median line. 9 .—Length, 8 mm.; wing, 8.9 mm.; fore leg, femur, 6 mm.; tibia, 7 mm.; hind leg, femur, 7.1 mm.; tibia, 7.7 mm. @ .—Head: rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne dark brown, grayish pollinose ; segments submoniliform. Front, vertex and occiput gray. Thorax: pronotum brownish gray, the gray being pollen. Meso- notum, preescutum gray, with an indistinct, broad, brown, median stripe + scutum, scu‘ellum and postnotum pale, with a gray pollen. Pleure pale 364 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. gray poilinose. Halteres short, stem dull yellow, knob brown. Legs : «ox and trochanters du!l yellow ; femora similar, rather darkened toward the up ; tibiz and tarsi ligit brown. Wings hyaline, veins dark brown, conspicuous ; stigma indistinct, brownish. Venation (see fig. k.): Sc ends opposite the origin of Rs ; Sc, far retracted so that Sc, is almost as long as the stigma; Rs only a little longer than the deflection of R,.,; basal deflection of Cu, at the fork of M. Abdomen: tergum dull brown ; sternum yellowish brown. Holotype-— ?. Neuquen, Argentina, 1907. (Dr. Adolf Lenol.) Type in author’s collection. Differs frem the hitherto described species by the characters give in | under insignifica. From tusignifica it differs in its wing venation, colour of veins, and body tone. ? Furcomyla fumosa, sp. 0. Wings infumed, with darker clouds. @ .—Length about 5.5 mm; wing, 6.3 mm. © —Head: rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne dark brownish black. Front, vertex and occiput brownish, with a grayish pubescence. Thorax: pronotum dark brown. Mesonotum light brown, the postnotum darker. Pleurze dark brown. Halteres dark brown, base of the stem light coloured. Legs: cox and trochanters dark brown, rest of legs broken. Wings infumed with brown, darker brown clouds arranged as follows: At origin of Rs, at tip of Sc, at tip of R,, along cord ; most of veins and tip of wing clouded with dark brown. Venation (see fig. t.): Sc long, Sc, ending slightly before the fork of Rs, Sc, at its tip: R, bends down near its end and touches R,.g, obliterating the cross-vein 7 ; basal deflection of Cu, beyond the fork of M. Holotype.— @. Amatuk, British Guiana; July 14, 1911. (F. E. Lutz.) Type in American Museum of Natural History. This insect is closely allied to Zimnobia insularis Will. (Dipt. St. Vincent, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond, 1896, p. 287, pl. ro, fig. 58), but the wing has quite a different pattern, cell rst M, less elongated, basal deflec- tion of Cu, farther distad, etc The two species are certainly as close to furcomyia as they are to Limnobiz, but seem to represent a peculiar group which needs further study with more material. Mr. Epwarp P. Van Dezee, of Buffalo, leaves early in December for a four months’ vacation in California. His temporary address will be San Diego, Calif. THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. : 205 A NEW PALAEARCTIC GERANOMYIA (TIPULID&, DIPTERA). BY C. P. ALEXANDER AND M. D. LEONARD, ITHACA, N. Var The following species is described from material sent to the authors by Prof. Dr. M. Bezzi. It was received by him from a correspondent in Ile Djerba, off the northern coast of Africa. Our thanks are due to Dr. Bezzi, and we take pleasure in dedicating this interesting species to him. Geranomyia bezsit, sp. n. Male (alcoholic). Colour light yellow ; proboscis with a brown sub- apical band; thoracic dorsum with four longitudinal brown. stripes ; pleure with a few dark brown spots. Wings hyaline with four rather indistinct spots. Length, 7.2-75 mm.; wing, 6 3-6.4 mm.; head, total, 2.2 mm.; thorax, 1.7 mm.; hind femora, 5 mm. Head: Proboscis light yellow, with a conspicuous, brown, subapical band ; palpi brown ; antennz yellow. Front, vertex and occiput light brownish yellow. Thorax: Ground colour yellow ; dorsum with two median and two lateral brown stripes. Mesothoracic praescutum pale yellow, with two brown longitudinal bands, a little wider than the dividing median line, these bands darker on the outer margin; they begin near the cephalic margin of the sclerite and continue caudad. fading out at about two-thirds the length of the sclerite. Just cephalad of the end of the median stripes begin the dark brown lateral stripes ; on the praescutum they are arcuated, continuing back onto the scutum, where they are also broader ; end of the scutellum darker brown on either side of the pale median line ; caudal edge of the postnotum dark brown. Pleurz concolorous with the dorsum, lateral margin of the mesothoracic preescutum dark brownish black, most intense on the margin of the sclerite ; an intense brown semilunar mark on the pronotal pleure, midway between the anterior cox and the dark mark on the edge of the mesothoracic preescutum ; an irregular, interroga- tion-like mark below the wing root ; ventral portion of the mesothoracic episternum and sternum brown. Halteres light yellow, knob clear yellow. Legs light brownish yellow, tips of the segments not appreciably darker. Abdomen yellow, with a brown mark on the ventral edge of the tergites, the first elongate, expanded over two segments ; behind this there 1. Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of Cornell University. July, 1912 206 3 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. are five marks on successive segments. On the dorsal edge of the sternites are six corresponding marks, rather less distinct than the tergal marks. Hypopygium light yellow, fleshy apical appendages almost white. Wings: Hyaline or nearly so ; veins light brownish yellow ; very pale brown clouds around the base of Rs, around cross-vein 7, and in the middle of cell Sc. Venation: Sc ending about opposite the origin of Rs; Sc? slightly retracted proximad of the origin of Rs, about one-half the length R, ——— Fic. 6 —Wing of Geranomyia bezcit, sp. a. of Sc,. Rs moderately long, about twice the length of the basal deflection of R,.;; cross-vein 7 at the tip of Ry, which is abruptly upcurved beyond it, very indistinct ; R,,, and R,.; arcuated and parallel ; cross-vein 7-m short, pale ; basal deflection of Cu, about equal to Cu,; Cu, fusing M distad of the fork M. Holotype, ¢, lle Djerba, Tunis. (Museo Torino.) Paratype, 3 gs, Ile Djerba, Tunis. (One in Museo Torino, two in Cornell University.) Remarks: Some venational variation occurs in the paratypes. In some Sc, is exactly opposite the origin of Rs, and Sc, is only a little shorter than Sc,; basal deflection of Cu, at the fork of M, or even slightly proximad of it. (See figure.) The relative length of Cu, and the basal deflection of Cu, varies somewhat, Cug, however, being generally a little the shorter. Key to the Palearctic Geranomyie : 1. Wings unspotted’)..: 2.0... 52.5. coos» one (NOnPalecarchic species): Wings: ‘spotted ::,. «. <)-sicuccpediemsais esieneeberte tai suntey ois pire roe eee 2. Thoracic dorsum without distinct stripes.....................-.3: Thoracic dorsum. withydistinctystripes.-eiee eee elena et eae 3. Antenne and palpi yellowish brown ; femora and tibize black at lt SAAC OariS Soa ULC OmarOO Gd ossocnummoctl ectiigd Witoll ls: ie Wollaston—Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, I, p. 115 (as Limnobia ), (1858). THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 207 Antenne and palpi black ; femora and tibi not black at WN atog sb d00 4 oS ROU OO UD Od OO NOHO EM Lia hen RULE ATI) ES 4 ls 4. Thoracic dorsum with two dark stripes.......... divittata Becker.® Thoracic dorsum with more than two dark stripes................5. 5. Costal margin of wings with six large equidistant brown GViMNGcd OP we cower cwdo ns aot Osas eb eS Gb UB cule SOREL Aaa aay A son Costal margin of wings with four spots............... an oolh 6. General colour yellowish brown ; proboscis unicolorous. . w#éco/or Hal.° General colour light yellow; proboscis light yellow, with a dark sub- apiCaleban dine clever: + ekeeie on ates cise tentlg eters O » OCSSIE US Poon This key is based entirely on the published description of the species hitherto proposed. Some of these descriptions are very insufficient, for example, those of atlantica Wollaston and wunicolor Haliday. One, maculipennis Curtis,® is so brief and unsatisfactory that we have not attempted to include it in the above key. The complete description reads as follows: “Rather larger than G. uxicolor, and is of a lurid ochre, the wings tinged with the same colour. It may be merely a variety, differing principally in colour, arising possibly from age. Whether or not Aforosa Macq. (1838), in which Enderlein has placed maculipennis Macq. (=canariensis Berg.) and vicina Macq,, is distinct from Geranomyia is uncertain. The character of a radial cross-vein shou'd be sufficient to distinguish this group of species from the typical Geranomyia group. Enderlein’ states that vicina has but one marginal cell; however, Macquart (Diptéres Exotiques, V, 1, pt. 1, p. 70), states clearly that there are two marginal cells. It is doubtful whether vicina isa Geranomyia; the statement of “rostre un peu alongé” being quite insufficient to give it a position in the genus Geranomyia. Acknowledgements are made to Mr. Frederick Knab for his kindness in supplying a reference not otherwise obtainable. The drawing of the wing was made by means of the projection microscope in the Entomological Laboratory. 2. Macquart—Diptéres Exotiques, Vol. I, pt. I, p.63 (as Aporosa maculipennis ) (1838) ; changed to canariensis by Bergroth, Wiener Entomol. Z itung, Vol. 8, p- 118 (1889). 3. Becker—Berlin Mitt. Zo6l. Mus., Vol. 4, p. 187 (1g08). 4. Mik—Verhandlungen Zodl.-Bot. Gesellschaft Wien., Vol. 14, p. 791 (1864), as maculipennis, n. sp.; changed to caloptera Mik, Verh. Zo6l.-Bot. Geselischaft Wien., Vo!. 17, p 423 (1867). 5. Halidiay—Entomological Magazine, Vol. 1, p. 155 (1833); Curtis, Brit. Entomol., Vol. 12, p. 573 (excellen coloured figure); Macquart, Suit. A Buffon, Vol. 2, p. 652 (1835). 6. Curtis—Brit. Entomol., Vol. 12, p. 573 (1835). 7. Enderlein, G.—Zodlogische Jabrbiicher, Vol. 32. part 1, p. 79, 80 (1912). 208 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST DRAGON FLIES COLLECTED AT POINT PELEE AND PELEE ISLAND, ONTARIO, IN THE SUMMERS OF rgro AND tort. BY F. M. ROOT, OBERLIN, OHIO. Lestes unguiculatus Hagen.—Point Pelee. One specimen. Lestes forcipatus Rambur.—Pelee Island. Very common. Lestes vigilax Hagen.—Point Pelee. Common around ponds. Enallagma carunculatum Morse.—Pt. Pelee. Fairly common near ponds. Enallagma pollutum Hagen.—Pt. Pelee. Fairly common near ponds. Ischnura verticalis Say.—Pt. Pelee and Pelee Island. Common. Gombhus vastus Walsh.—Pelee Island. Five specimens taken near woods. Anax junius Drury.—Pt. Pelee and Pelee Island. Common. (See note at end.) Eschna clepsydra Say.—Pelee Island. One specimen taken. i schna constricta Say.—Pt. Pelee and Pelee Island. Fairly com- mon. (See note.) Epicordulia princeps Hagen.—Pt. Pelee. Fairly common about large ponds. Pantala hymenea Say.—Pelee Island. One taken, others seen. (See note.) Tramea carolina Linné.—Pt. Pelee. Rare. (See note.) Tramea lacerata Hagen.—Pt. Pelee and Pelee Island. Common. (See note.) Celithemis eponina Drury.—Pt. Pelee. Common near ponds. Celithemis elisa Hagen.—Pt. Pelee. Rare. Leucorrhinia intacta Hagen.— Pelee Island. Common at swamps. Sympetrum rubicundulum Say.—Pelee Island and Pt. Pelee. Fairly common. Sympetrum vicinum Hagen.—Pelee Island and Pt. Pelee. Very common. (See note.) Sympetrum corruplum Hagen.—Pt. Pelee. Rare. (See note.) Lrythemis simplicollts Say.—Pt. Pelee and Pelee Island. Common near ponds. (See note.) -achydiplax longipennis Burm.—Pt. Pelee and Pclee Island. Com- mon. (See note.) Libellula basalis Say.—Pt. Pelee and Pelee Island. Fairly common near ponds. July, 1912 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 209 Libellula incesta Hagen.—Pt. Pelee. Common at the ponds. Libellula pulchella Drury.—Pt. Pelee and Pelee Island. Common. (See note.) ; Plathemis lydia Drury.—Pt. Pelee. Rare, but seen regularly. Nore.—On Pelee Island in r9ro, about the middle of August, or a little later, there were three days when dragon-flies of species hitherto not seen in large numbers swarmed around the end of the Point, Presumably they were migrating. The principal species concerned were Anax junius, Eschna constricta, Tramea lacerata and Pantala hymenea. On Point Pelee in 1911, about the middle of August, the deer-flies became suddenly much more numerous, and on August 17 great numbers of dragon-flies appeared (perhaps following the deer-flies). The great bulk of these were teneral Anax junius (with reddish-purple abdumens), and towards evening they clustered so thickly on the cedars near the end of the Point that eight or ten could be captured any time by a single sweep of the net. With them were large numbers of Sympetrum vicinum (which preferred the low junipers to the cedars) and smaller numbers of Zramea lacerata and 4@schna constricta. There were also a few each of Zramea carolina, Sympetrum corruptum, Erythemis simplicollis, Pachydiplax longipennis and Libellula pulchella with the flocks. They remained until August 20. THREE DAYS IN THE PINES OF YAPHANK. RECORDS OF CAPTURES OF HEMIPTERA HETEROPTERA. BY J. R. DE LA TORRE BUENO, WHITE PLAINS, Noy. . The name Yaphank (with the stress on the “/awk”) has a truly barbarous cadence. It is an interesting relic, one of the few remain- ing vestiges of the great Shinnecock tribe, once Lords of Long Island. The place that bears this cacophonous name is, indeed, one of the very few regions near New York and its teeming millions not utterly spoiled to the lover of nature by the “improvements” of modern progress as exemplified by its advance agents, the real estate dealers. Here and there in this land of sand and pines and scrub- oak, are still to be found ancient trees that stood when Hendrick Hudson first sailed into the Narrows. The present holders of the land are descendants of original Royal Patentees, and they own great stretches of wilderness. So it comes about that insect life is abundant in numbers and rich in species, not the least among them being the July, 1912 210 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Hemiptera. The chief collecting grounds are about two miles from the railroad station and the vegetation consists mainly of pine, scrub oak and along the roads, maple trees, and the weeds and shrubs common to this latitude. Toward the end of September, 1911, 1 had the good fortune to spend three days there with Mr. G. B. Engelhardt, who was guide, philosopher and friend. We arrived about 11 a.m. the morning of the 23rd, and indulged in a little collecting before the noon-day mea!, after which we went out and did some sweeping and beating with good results, one being the capture of a new Corizus, described else- where. In the evening, between 8 and 1o, Engelhardt went sugaring, carrying a trap lantern, while I swept. The following day was rainy in the morning, but as soon as it cleared up sufficiently we took our way to the Carman River, a clear, shallow stream flowing over a bed of sand where a litle dredging was done, which yielded among other things one specimen of Belostoma dutartum Stal. (taken by Engelhardt), which is the farthest Northern authentic record for the species known to me. In the afternoon sweeping and beating made up the programme, in the brush and trees about a cranberry bog and in the grasses growing in it. Night sweeping vave good results, no less than 16 species being taken in clearings in the woods, while Ozophora picturata Say flew to light, its great agility making it hard to catch. The morning of the 25th dawned grey and muggy, the day finally clearing in the late afternoon. Sunshine or rain being one to the waterbugs, Engelhardt and I betook ourselves to the lake, where wingless Rheumatobates rileyi Bergr. was far from uncommon, but only one Zrepobates pictus H. S. was seen, although I was out in a boat looking for it. Here, in the floating duck-weed and alge I secured what seems to be a new species of Microvelia, in goodly numbers. On the way to and from the lake sweeping and beating were done with good results, and this part of the programme repeated in the afternoon yielded among other things, no less than rr specimens of the new Corizus, 2 being fully winged, the other brachypterous. In the evening our stay was wound up by Engelhardt visiting his sugared trees, while I watched the trap light and caught two Ozophora. Altogether, in the three days, in spite of unfavourable weather, we got between us some 300 specimens and 82 species of Hemiptera. The identified species are listed here- THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 211 after, with appropriate comment. Many of these are recorded from Long Island for the first time, and some of the other records are unusual or remarkable. Apateticus (= Podisus) cynicus Say.—Was taken at sugar in the evening—a most unusual manner. Apateticus maculiventris Say. Apateticus serteventris Uhler. Apateticus modestus Dallas. Apateticus plactdus Ubler. Flalcostethus (= Peribalus M. & R.) “imbolarius Stal. Trichopepla semivittata Say. Euschistus euschistoides Voll. (=fissilis Uhler.) Euschistus variolarius P. B. Thyanta custator Fabr. Nezara hilaris Say.—At sugar, taken by Mr. Engelhardt. Dendrocoris humeralis Uhler. Brochymena arborea Say. Tetyra bipunctata Fabr.—Was taken at light. Aradus shermani Heid.—This species was taken under bark of dead pine tree, a few adults and a number of nymphs in various stages. Apparently first notice other than the type loca.ity in Pennsylvania. Aradus cinnamomeus Panz. Meszira granulata Say. Corynocoris typhaeus Fabricius.—Swept from weeds in a dry field. This appears to be the preferred habitat of this species. Alydus eurinus Say. Alydus pilosulus H. S. Megalotomus 5-spinosus Say.—Common on false indigo ( Baptista tinctoria). Some specimens were also swept at night. Hlarmostes reflexulus Say. Corizus lateralis Say. Corizus hirtus Bueno.—In a sandy spot, in short grasses, by sweeping. Jalysus spinosus Say. Lygaeus kalmit Fabr. Wysius providus Ubler.—Swept and taken at light. Wysius thymi Wolff. Ischnorhynchus geminatus Say. Geocoris piceus Say. 212 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Phlegyas abbreviata Uhler.—One long-winged specimen was swept. Crophius disconotus Say.—Beaten from oak. Ligyrocorts diffusus Uhler. Pamera basalis Dallas. Antillocoris (= Cligenes) pilosulus Uhler.—TYaken by sweeping grasses in dry cranberry bog. Pseudocnemodus bruneri Barber.—Two long-winged specimens were swept, one by daylight, the other at night. This is a pretty common and widespread species. Carpilis ferruginea Stal.—Two specimens taken by sweeping in a marsh. This species has apparently not been recognized since Stal described it in 1874, in En. IV, pp. 144, 153. This is a notable addition to our fauna, and serves to show how little is known of the Hemiptera of any given region. ; Ozophora picturata Uhler.—A number of specimens were taken at light and one was beaten from oak. This is a most agile species. Drymus unus Say. b Corythuca juglandis Fitch.—Taken by beating. Corythuca crataegt Morrill—Taken by beating. Corythuca pergandet Heidemann. Physatochetla plexa Say.—Beaten from oak. Reduviolus sordidus Rent. Reduviolus ferus Linné. Mesovelia bisignata Uhler. Rhagovelia obesa Uhler. Microvelia americana Uhler.—There are also 3 seeminglyaaihdes- cribed AZicroveliae. " Gerris marginatus Say. Gerris remigis Say. Trepobates pictus H.S. Rheumatobates rileyi Bergroth.—Abund int on the lake. Neogeus (= Hebrus Curtis) concinnus Uhl.—Quite abundant on the damp edges of a cranberry bog. Pygolampis, sp.—Nymph. Pselliopus (= Milyas) cinctus Fab.—Beaten and swept. Found mating. Zelus luridus Stal.—Nymphs. Fitchia aptera Stal.—One large fully-winged female was swept in a little meadow. we 12 [Reprinted from PsycHE, Vol. XIX, No. 6.]j NEW NEARCTIC TIPULIDAE (DIPTERA).' By Cuarutes P. ALEXANDER, Ithaca, N. Y. The following crane-flies, received from various correspondents during the past few months, are believed to be new to science. Limnobia argenteceps sp. nov. Antennz 15-segmented; pleure yellow, with a brown band; wings spotted; Se short, ending before the origin of Rs. o’, Length, 4.6 mm.; wing, 5.9 mm. Head: rostrum and palpi black; antenne 15-segmented, with the segments all black, flagellar segments rounded-ovate; front, vertex and occiput black with a conspicuous silvery-grey bloom; gen darker. . Thorax: pronotum light brownish-yellow; mesonotum, prescutum: in front and on the lateral margin, rather bright yellow; an indistinct broad, brown, median stripe which spreads out behind and covers the entire sclerite before the suture; scutum brown, paler, yellowish, medially; scutellum and post-notum brown. Pleure yellow, with a broad brown band extending from the cervical sclerites back to the halteres and base of the abdomen. Hallteres, pale at base; remainder, darker, brown. Legs: coxe bright yellow; trochanters yellow; femora yellowish-brown, toward the tip; tibie and tarsi brown. : hyaline, veins brown; a brown spot at the tip of Se, extending around the base of the sector; a large square stigmal spot; all cross-veins and deflections of veins, narrowly marginal with brown; tip of the wing and ends of all of the veins, faintly tinged with brown. Venation (See fig. 1): Sc short, Se: at the tip, end- ing before the base of Rs; Rs rather square at its origin; basal deflection of Cuz before the fork of M. Abdomen: tergum dark brown, the extreme apice of each sclerite and a broad median patch on the base of segments 1 to 6, yellow; sternum mostly pale yellow, the lateral margins and an indistinct, sub-apical, cross-band, brown. Hypopy- gium yellowish: margin of the 8th tergite almost straight; pleural pieces, cylin- drical, thickly beset with stout hairs, bearing apically, a large pale segment which is likewise beset with hairs, and armed at its tip with a slender, chitinized projec- tion, curved at its ends; guard of the penis long, prominent, enlarged apically and notched. 1Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory, Cornell University. 164 Psyche [December Holotype, o, Huachuca Mts., Arizona; Aug. 1905 (H. Skinner, Coll.) Type in coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. The reference of this insect to Limnobia is merely provisional; I do not care to add a new genus to our already too long list, nor do I know of any genus into which this species will accurately fit. It is remarkable in possessing antennz which are 15-segmented. The hypopygium is more like that of Limnobia than it is like that of Furcomyia, still the appearance of the insect, and its venation, are strongly suggestive of the last-named genus. It may be well to compare it with this genus; in Doane’s Key (Ent. News, Jan. ’08; p. 5-7) it runs down to couplet 30, but runs out because of its spotted wings. It is related to Furcomyia signipennis Coq. of California (J. N. Y. Ent. Soc.; vol. 13; p. 56; (1905). Elliptera astigmatica sp. nov. Wings without a stigmal spot. o Length, 8.75 mm.; wing, 14 mm. Head: rostrum and palpi brownish-black; antennz, segment one, elongate-cy- lindrical; flagellar segments oval, similar to one another in shape, gradually smaller; antenne black; front, vertex and occiput black; the occiput narrowed behind. (It is probable that the head is covered with a grey bloom in fresh specimens; the type is injured.) Thorax: very convex, prescutum large, greyish-brown, clearer grey along the margins and on the pleure; the prescutum is very large, so that the meso-thoracie legs are very widely separated from the prothoracic pair, but close to the metatho- racic; scutum, scutellum and post-notum dark grey, the caudal margin of the scutel- lum brown. Halteres light yellow, the knob brown. Legs: fore cox dark brown, yellowish at the tip; remainder lacking; middle and hind legs, cox yellowish- brown; femora and tibize obscure yellowish-brown; tarsi lacking. Wings: hyaline, with a faint yellow suffusion in cells C, Se, Ri and anterior por- tions of R;; stigma entirely absent; veins, brown, R: darker than the others; a brownish suffusion below Cu and 2nd Anal. Venation (See fig. 2.): Costa in vicinity of Sc bellied out cephalad and incrassated; Se rather long, lying closer to C than to R; Se: far retracted, so that Se: is about equal to Rs; R long, ending before the wing-tip, strongly incrassated to near the origin of Ris; Rs long, aris- ing at an extremely acute angle, diverging only slightly from Ri; Re,: in a direct line with Rs; basal deflection of R,s short, strongly arcuated, beyond cross-vein r-m, straight, parallel with R23 to near the tip when it runs somewhat caudad; M weak, on a line with M; and Cu:; deflection of M:,: almost as long as the cross-vein r-m; M:,: proximad of m longer than that portion beyond it, making cell Ist Ma very elongate; Cu strong, Cu: about two-thirds as long as Cuz; Cu: fuses with M just before the fork; 1st A very weak; 2nd A stronger, gently bisinuate; anal angle rather prominent. 1912] Alexander—New Nearctic Tipulidae (Diptera) 165 Abdomen greyish on dorsum, pleure darker, blackish; sternum testaceous. Holotype, co’, Roger's Pass, British Columbia; J uly 30,1908. (J. Chester Brad- ley, coll.) Type in Cornell Univ. coll. This species agrees with the other American species, clausa O. 5. of California, in its possessing a median cross-vein. It differs in the entire absence of a stigmal spot. I have seen the types of clausa in Cambridge, thanks to the kindness of Mr. Henshaw, and find that that portion of Ri, just underneath the stigma is bent caudad, and, beyond the stigma, regains its former level; no such condition exists in astigmatica. Erioptera (Mesocyphona) distincta sp. nov. Vertex variegated; mesonotum clear light grey; dorsal stripes rather broad, clear; pleural stripes very distinct, clear-cut; femora with two dark bands, except- ing the middle pair which has one; wings greyish, spotted and dotted, on the veins and in the cells, with white. co’, Length, 3.6—3.8 mm.; wing, 4.6 mm. Head: palpi brown; antenne light yellowish-brown; vertex with a large, clear grey, oval spot, surrounded by a brown border; the outer margins of the vertex, nearest the eyes, fawn-colored; occiput dark brown. Cervical sclerites pale yellow, dorsally with two dark spots. Thorax: pronotum whitish, the scutellum interrupted medially with a dark pit; mesonotum, preescutum clear light grey, the lateral margins narrowly greyish; a brown stripe on either side, beginning near the caudal end of the pronotum, con- tinuing backward; a brown stripe on either side of the grey median yitta. Pseudo sutural pits: elongate-oval, pale; the space anterior to this fovea is pale, fawn- colored; prescutal, or tuberculate, pits, distinct, black, separated from one another by a distance equal to one and one-half the diameter of one; these pits are located in the median ground stripe near the proximal edge of the dark dorsal stripes; scutum, greyish, the vitte of the prescutum continued backward onto this; scu- tellum light yellowish-brown, darker anteriorly; post-notum grey, tri-vittate with dark brown. Pleurz dark brown; a narrow yellowish-white pale stripe running from the lateral margin of the cervical sclerites, caudad; broadening out above the fore coxa and continuing to the wing basis; a broad, clear, silvery-white stripe, narrowest anteriorly, beginning back of the fore coxa, running back to the base of the abdomen; sternum clear grey. The pleura has the appearance of having three dark and two pale bands. Halteres, stem white, knob pale brown. Legs: fore and hind femur, yellow with a broad sub-basal, and a narrower, sub-apical, brownish- black ring; tibie and tarsi whitish; extreme tarsal segments darker; middle leg, similar, but femur has only the sub-apical dark band. Wings greyish, browner on the cephalic half, with numerous white spots and dots, these largest along the costa and on the cord; the cells are speckled with numerous fine dots. 166 Psyche [December Abdomen light brownish-yellow; a broad, brown, median stripe. Holotype, co, Highrolls, New Mexico; May 31, 1902. Paratypes, 3 o's; Highrolls, New Mexico; May 31, June 2, and June 10, 1902. Types in coll. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phil. \ This species differs from its nearest ally, caloptera Say, in its very clearcut pattern of coloration, clear grey with distinct pleural stripes, not yellowish with indistinct pleural stripes, ete. Trimicra pygmeza sp. nov. Small; brown; basal half of antenne yellow, remainder brown; wings greyish with a short pubescence in all the cells. 9, length, 3.2 mm.: wing, 3.5 mm. Head: rostrum and palpi dark brown; antennz, basal seven segments light yel- low, terminal segments dark brown; front, vertex and occiput dark brown. Thorax: dark brown, the lateral margin of the mesonotal prescutum dull yellow- ish; scutum, scutellum and post-notum dark brown, dark stripes not evident; pleure dark brown, more yellowish near the dorsal margin. Halteres yellow. Legs: coxee and trochanters yellowish-brown; femora, tibiae and tarsi brown. Wings: hyaline with a slight greyish tinge; stigma indistinctly grey; veins brown, R more yellowish. Wing covered in all the cells with a thick short pubescence. Venation: (See fig. 3) Sc. retracted far back from the tip of Sci; Rs leaves R: at an acute angle; fork of Re; deep, Rz,s being a little shorter than the basal deflection of Cui; cross-vein r just beyond the fork of R:;: and far removed from the tip of R:. Abdomen: dark brown; in the 2 with the valves of the ovipositor rather short, yellow. Holotype: o&, Woodworth’s Lake, Fulton Co., N. Y. (alt. 1660 ft); Aug. 22, 1910 (Alexander, coll.). Allotype; 9, with the type. Paratypes: 9, Wooster, Ohio; Sept. 20, 1911, on grass-lands. (Houser, coll.) In coll. John Houser. o@ Coy Glen, Ithaca, N. Y.; May 28, 1912; (Alexander and Sheffield.) The types are mounted in balsam, in the author’s collection. Related to T. anomala O. S. but much smaller and quite differ- ently colored; Mexican specimens which I have determined as T. anomala may, or may not, be conspecific with T. pilipes Fabr. of Europe (Compare Osten Sacken, Western Dipt., p. 200.) If so, it is easily separated from pygmaea by its non-pubescent wings. 1I have applied the term “pseudosutural pits’ to the deep impressions on the antero-lateral margins of the prascutum existing in many Tipulide (humeral pits of Osten Sacken). The ‘double dots’ of Osten Sacken are spoken of above as the ‘tuberculate pits.’ 1912] Alerander—New Nearctic Tipulidae (Diptera) 167 Limnophila laricicola sp. nov. Small; antenne of the co" elongate; color of the body light yellow; wings sub- hyaline. o', Length, uncertain, abdomen broken; wing, 5.4 mm. Head: antenne elongate, the segments indistinct, twisted, elongate-ovate, nar- rowed at the ends, brownish in color; front, vertex and occiput light brown, but discolored, and possibly different in fresh material. Thorax: pronotum brown; mesonotum, prescutum brown on the anterior mar- gin; a dark brown spot on the frontal third of the sclerite in a median position; remainder of the sclerite light yellow, sub-shining, with a sparse pale bloom; scu- tum and post-notum light yellow, the latter with an indistinct narrow brown median stripe; pleure yellow, darker near the dorsal margin. Hialteres, stem pale, knob darker. Legs: coxe and trochanters light yellow; remainder of the legs brown, rather darker outwards. Wings: subhyaline, stigma indistinct, brown. Venation (See fig. 4): Se rather long, extending to beyond the fork of Rs; cross-vein 7 at the tip of Ri; Rs short, less than M; or Mz in length; R:,: rather long, as long as Rs, gently arcuated; R: rather oblique, cross-vein r near its middle; deflection of Ri,s about as long as cross- vein r-m; petiole of cell M: moderately long, about three-fifths of cell Ms; basal deflection of Cu: beyond the middle of cell Ist M2. Cell R: very acute at its proxi- mal angle; cell Ist M: long and narrow. Abdomen broken. Holotype, @. Canada Lake, Fulton Co., N. Y.; June 20, 1911 (Alexander). Occurred in an extensive sphagnum bog, on vegetation growing underneath larch trees. (altitude 1550 feet) Type in author's collection. This species by its elongate antenne in thed’, is allied to poetica O.S. I thought that it was a small ¢@ of this species until I saw the types in Cambridge. Poetica is conspicuously larger, with quite different antennal structure. In Jlaricicola, the antennal segments are twisted, and the sutures between them indistinct, producing an appearance quite different from that which obtains in the male sex of poetica, tenuipes, niveitarsis, etc. Venationally, this new species differs from poetica in its longer Re,s, shorter petiole to cell M,, ete. Unfortunately my type, and only speci- men, was recently accidentally damaged. Eriocera albihirta sp. nov. Antenne short in the o’; cell M: present; body densely clothed with long white bairs. o Length, 15 mm.; wing, 15.6 mm.; antenna, 4.5 mm. Fore leg, fem. 8 mm.; tibia, 10 mm. Middle leg, fem. 9.2 mm.; tibia, 8.4 mm. Hind leg, fem. 12 mm.; tibia 12.6 mm. 168 Psyche [December Head: rostum and palpi dark brown; antenne, first segment large, cylindrical, brown; remainder of antennz black with black hairs. Front wide, the frontal tubercle not prominent; front, vertex and occiput, medium brown densely clothed with long pale hairs; a spot on the front just behind the base of the antennz, paler, golden-yellow. Thorax: mesonotal prescutum dark dull black without apparent stripes (though these may have been destroyed by some means or another), the entire sclerite densely clothed with elongated white hairs, very conspicuous; those on the dorsum darker and shorter, those on the lateral margin of the sclerite exceedingly conspicu- ous; scutum dull black; scutellum dark brown, also with numerous pale hairs; post-notum black. Pleur light grey with dense white hairs; the light color of the pleurz renders it probable that the dorsum is grey with darker stripes, in living material. Halteres, stem light brown, knob darker brown. Legs: coxze brown, with a grey bloom; trochanter brown; fore femora, basal half brownish-yellow; apical half dark brown, uniform throughout; tibia and tarsi dark brown; middle leg, femora with rather more than the basal half light-colored; hind leg, femora with only the extreme base yellowish. Wings: subhyaline or light brown, more brownish near the veins; cells C and Se brownish-yellow; stigma small, oval; veins brown. Venation: (See fig. 6); Se extending beyond the fork of Rz;3; R long, cross-vein r about one-half as long as that portion of Ri beyond it; r before the middle of R:; cell M: present. Vena- tion almost exactly like the eastern EF. brachycera O. S. Abdomen: tergum uniform dark brown, the lateral margin pale yellowish, and provided with long pale hairs, these longest on the basal segments; hypopygium yellowish-orange; sternum more greyish. Holotype: The labels read ‘22 California. No. 846. Coll. Hy. Edwards.’ Prob- ably from Marin Co. Related to E. brachycera O. S. but darker and clothed with long pale hairs much longer than in brachycera. The basal segments of the antennze in brachycera are very light yellowish-red, not brown; the front of brachycera in the vicinity of the tubercle is uniformly pale; the thoracic dorsum may or may not be simi- larly colored in the two species (see statement, above, concerning the condition of the thorax in albihirta). In brachycera the legs are much lighter-colored with narrow blackish tips to all the femora; in albihirta the femoral tips are uniform brown and very broad. Eriocera fultonensis sp. nov. Antenne short in both sexes; cell M; absent; body coloration dark brown; prescutum four-striped; wings light brown; cross-vein r far before the fork of Re,s. co’, Length, 9.6-10.2 mm.; wing, 9-10.4 mm. 9, Length, 11.2-11.5 mm.; wing, 10.5-11.5 mm. 1912] Alexander—New Nearctic Tipulidae (Diptera) 169 Head: palpi dark, blackish, rostrum much paler brown; antenna short in both sexes; scapal segments dark above, reddish-yellow underneath; flagellar segments black. Front, vertex and occiput black with a grey pruinosity, most distinct behind the eyes. Thorax: mesonotal preescutum light yellowish-brown with a dark brown stripe on either side of the paler median vitta, these stripes broadest in front, narrower behind, ending just before the suture; a shorter, curved, lateral stripe on the lateral edge of the sclerite, beginning just behind the pseudo-suture, continuing to the transverse suture; scutum, scutellum and post-notum blackish, scantily grey pruinose; pleure unicolorous greyish-black. Halteres, base of stem, pale, yellow; remainder of stem, and the knob, dark brown. Legs: cox light brown; trochanters and basal three-fourths of the femora, light brownish-yellow; apical fourth of the femora, brown; in the fore-legs, the apical half of the femur is brown; tibia light brown, the tip black; tarsi brown. Wings: veins dark brown; membrane rather uniformly tinged with light brown; stigma small, delimited externally by the radial cross-vein; extreme tip of the wing rather darker. Venation (See fig. 7): cross-veinr near the tip of Ri, situated far before the fork of Rz,.s; Rzmuch shorter than R2,3; cell M: absent; basal deflec- tion of Cur slightly before the fork of M. Abdomen shiny black, including the large hypopygium; in the 9, the valves of the ovipositor are likewise black. Holotype, co, Sport Is; Sacandaga R; Fulton Co.; N. Y. June 28,1911. (Alex- ander, coll.) Allotype, 2, with the type. Paratypes, 5 co’, 5 9, with the type. Types in author’s collection. Nearest related to E. fuliginosa O. S. (East. U.S.), from which it is readily distinguished by the lack of a grey bloom on the thorax, the shiny jet black abdomen and genitalia, etc. In normal indi- viduals of fultonensis, cross-vein r is far before the fork of Ro+3 (See fig. 7). In rare instances, however, the cross-vein is much nearer to the fork though never quite at it. Specimens which I refer to fuliginosa, provisionally, show a venation similar to that des- eribed for the species (See fig. 8); the coloration is very dark, however, and comparison with the type may prove them to be novelties. E. fultonensis differs from E. gibbosa Doane! (Mich.) in the same venational peculiarity. Eriocera cinerea sp. nov. Cell M, absent; color of the thorax light grey; stripes on the mesothoracic priescutum indistinct; cross-vein r far beyond the fork of Rz,s. 9, Length, 11.4 mm.; wing, 11.2 mm. 9, Head: rostrum yellow; palpi yellowish-brown; antenne, segments one 1 Doane, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc.; vol. 8; p. 193; pl. 8, fig. 10. (1900) 170 Psyche [December and two, light orange-yellow beneath, light brown above; flagellar segments brown. Front and clypeus light orange-yellow; vertex and occiput light grey, more brown- ish medially, paler on the vertex behind the eyes, and on the genx. Thorax: prothorax, scutum dark brown with a grey bloom and prominent pale hairs; scutellum dark brown medially, the ends conspicuously orange-yellow. Mesothorax yellowish-grey, the praeescutum with four very indistinct darker lines; the middle pair long, confluent or nearly so at their cephalic ends; lateral pair short, beginning behind the prominent rounded, black pseudo-suturalfovea; scutum and scutellum brown with a clear light grey bloom; post-notum dark brown. Pleure light grey; halteres, stem brownish-yellow, knob brown. Legs: cox and trochanters rich orange-yellow; femora light brownish-yellow, the extreme tip: darker, brown; tibize, extreme base brown, remainder yellowish-brown, insensibly darker apically; tarsi brown. Wings sub-hyaline or very pale brown; costal and subcostal cells light yellow; stigma ill-defined, yellowish-brown; veins brown. Venation (See fig. 9) Se short, ending before the fork of Re:3; Res slightly longer than that portion of R: before cross-vein r; cross-vein r inserted near the tip of R: and far beyond the fork of R:;3; cell M: absent; cell 1st M: elongate. Abdomen: tergum dark brown, the lateral margins of the sclerite broadly, the caudal margin narrowly, brownish-yellow; valves of the ovipositor brownish- orange; sternum greyish-brown. Holotype. @, Boston, Massachusetts. Type in author’s collection. Related to fuliginosa O. S. but head and thorax conspicuously grey, not brown; abdomen not uniform brown; cross-vein r sit- uated far beyond the fork of Rei;, ete. The female of 2. wilsont O. S. (East U. S.), of which I have seen the types in Cambridge, is unknown. This new species cannot be that sex of wilsont because of its totally different body-color. E. longicornis Walker is quite a different species; its venation seems never to have been figured (The figure in Needham’s 23rd Rep’t of the N. Y. State Entomologist, is not longicornis, but spinosa.) so I include a drawing. (See fig. 10.) Rhaphidolabis neomexicana sp. nov. Cross-vein m of the wings absent; wings pearly-white with a distinct dark brown stigmal spot. 9, Length, 5.4 mm. wing, 7.6 mm. Head: rostrum and palpi dark brownish-black, antenne black; head dark brown, sparsely grey pruinose. Thorax: mesonotal praescutum dark brown, very sparsely grey pruinose without distinct darker stripes, though rather deeper- colored medially; scutum, scutellum and post-notum dark brown with a faint grey —— Alexander—New Nearctic Tipulide Vou, XIX, Pirate 13 1912] Alexander—New Nearctie Tipulidae Diptera e alval dust. Pleure dark brownish-black, grey-dusted. Halteres, stem pale, knob brown. Legs: cox brownish-yellow, more greyish anteriorly; trochanters brown- ish-yellow; femora and tibie uniform medium brown; tarsi gone. Wings: hyaline or sub-pearly; a prominent elongate dark brown stigmal spot; veins brown, the longitudinal veins rather paler at the wing-root. Venation: (See fig. 5): Sc long extending béyond the fork of R2,3; R: long, cross-vein r very near its tip; Rs short, oblique; Re,s very short, only a little longer than cross-veins ror r-m; cross-vein r beyond the middle of R:; M: about as long as Rs; no cross- vein m; basal deflection of Cu: beyond the fork of M. Abdomen: dark brown, the pleural sutures lighter brown; valves of the oviposi- tor light colored, brownish-yellow. Holotype, 9, Beulah, New Mexico: June 29, 1902. Type coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. Most closely allied to R. tenuipes O. S. of the Eastern United States, but differs in its wing coloration, apparent lack of thoracic stripes, dark stigmal spot and venational details, 7. e., more oblique Rs, shorter and more divergent M, and Mp, ete. R. debilis Will. appears to be a Tricyphona by its venation (Res fused and Ry and R; separate). It agrees most closely with T. vitripennis Doane. The members of this tribe, Pedicini, require careful study at the hands of some competent student who has access to an abundance of Western material. The West appears to be the center of dis- tribution for the members of this group, which, in other parts of the continent, are represented only by a few species, or else, as in the tropics, quite lacking. I surmise that such a study, based on sufficient material, would show congenerousness of Plectromyia O. S. and Rhaphidolabis O. S., with Dieranota Zett. Explanation of the Plate 13. Wing of Limnobia argenteceps, sp. n. “ “ Elliptera astigmatica, sp. n. “ Trimicra pygmaea, sp. n. “ Limnophila laricicola, sp. n. “ Rhaphidolabis neomericana, sp. n. “ Eriocera albihirta, sp. n.

(Oana CO ABE EPBEE SEH REE aba es 2. Wings uniform in coloration without dark fascie .....................-....... 3. Wings light colored with dark fasciz, or dark colored with white fascia ....... 9. 3. Wings strongly tinged with blackish or dark brown, uniform. ................. 4. Wingsisnbhysline;jor veryislightly darker ss. .<2:ocos<. sccc-scoc cess esos Jecese 8. 4. Halteres with the knob yellow. ....... iristissima Osten Sacken* (Eastern U.§.). Halferestentirealw danke Colored neces smisctte scenic ves sie miveecccn cede ce ceians 2 De SMELL Ka AC Keane ceeretmerere ela (See eee tee or on tec tey ce s tet See 6. HM Oraixs OFAN SOs «ese os se eae get ee atest se seas Seiden stelercletele it 6. Small species (length about 4 mm); wings infumed with violaceous; stigma SEG WWE epee ee aye a ea male a Lila nigrina Wiedemann® (Brazil). Larger species (length about 6-7 mm); wings nearly black; costal cell darker; no distinct stigma .....-.....-.. luctuosa Qsten Sacken (E. U. 8.; Cent. Am.). @ AbGOMen DISC) se ean oem aerials eel rufithorax Wiedemann (Brazil). Abdomen orange......-. Dado poSHc coSNOERObeSe magnifica, new species (Mexico). 8. Dark rust red; wings uniformly tinged with brown. ferruginea Williston ® (Mexico). Greyish brown; wings very faintly tinged with brown; an indistinct hyaline cross band beyond the cord ..... subhyalina, new species (Cent. Am., Brazil). 9. Wings subhyaline with two brown fascia -...............-2..-.0 pnOusEo RSS 10. Wings brown with two subhyaline crossbands. caloptera Osten Sacken? (Brazil, probably). 10. Body, halteres and legs altogether black.......... osten sackeni Skuse ® (Brazil). Body light yellow, with brown marks............-- hirsuta, new species (Brazil). I have not included in the above table, Gnophomyia (2) stupens Walker® on the grounds that it is unrecognizable. In the original description, the venation is compared to a Tricyphona, but Osten Sacken says that it is a Gnophomyia. No species known to me has 1 Monographs, Dipt. N. Amer., vol. 3, p. ix (supplement, Smiths. Mise. Coll., No. 256 (1873) ). ? Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 366, pl. 17, fig. 3. * Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., 1905, p. 58. 4 Monographs, vol. 4, p. 175, pl. 2, fig. 5 (wing); male and female. 6 Auss. Zweifl. Ins., 1828, vol. 1, p. 37 (Limnobia). § Biologia Centrali-Americana, Diptera, vol. 1 (supplement), Dec., 1900, p. 226, female. 7 Studies on Tipulide, pt. 2, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1887, pp. 199, 200, male and female. ® Osten Sacken, Idem, p. 200, female. * Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new ser., vol. 5, 1860, p. 333 (Limnobia). 522 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vou. 44. brown on the costa and along the veins, and at the same time is large enough (12 mm) to answer this description. It agrees very well with the Mexican Trimicre. GNOPHOMYIA LUCTUOSA Osten Sacken. Gnophomyia luctuosa OSTEN SAcCKEN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, p. 224, male; Monographs, vol. 4, 1869, p. 174; Cat. Dipt. N. Amer., 1878, p. 30; Berl. Ent. Zeit., vol. 31, 1887, p. 198.—Jonnson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1895, p. 320.—Kerresz, Cat. Dipt., vol. 2, 1902, p. 210.—A.pricH, Cat. N. Amer., Dipt., 1905, p. 87. Limnobia nigricola WatkeER, Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond., 1860, p. 333. One female from Guatemala, Central America (Sept., 1902) (Coll. G. Eisen.). Length, 6 mm.; wing, 6.3 mm. Specimen in U. S. National Museum collection. (See fig. 29.) $ GNOPHOMYIA RUFITHORAX Wiedemann. Timnobia rufithoras Wrepemann, Auss. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 1, 1828, p. 548, male. Furina rufithorax JmnNeke, Abhandl. Senckenber. Ges., vol. 6, 1867, p. 318, pl. 43, fig. 1. Gnophomyia rufithorax OsteN SackEN, Berl. Ent. Zeit., vol. 31, 1887, p. 198.— Hunter, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 1900, p. 291.—Kerresz, Cat. Dipt., vol. 2, 1902, p. 211. Male.—Somewhat injured, head missing. Thorax: pronotum black, reddish along the caudal margin. Mesonotum: yellowish-orange, darker, brownish, behind. Pleure orange, the meso- and meta-coxe orange at the bases. Legs black. Wings brown, posterior cells paler. “Gee fig. 32.) Abdomen black Male, wing 11.5 mm. Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil (March) (H. H. Smith, coll.) (speci- men in American Museum of Natural History). GNOPHOMYIA MAGNIFICA, new species. Head, legs and wings black; thorax and abdomen orange-yellow. Female.—Length 14 mm.; wing, 13 mm. Head: rostrum and palpi dark brownish-black. Eyes rather approximated; antenne entirely black. Front, vertex and gene black, occiput dull orange-yellow; front shiny. Thorax: pronotum, scutum bright orange-yellow, darker in front, paler behind; scutellum narrow, transverse, pale yellow. Meso- notum: prescutum deep orange-yellow without stripes, a row of hairs along either side of the middle prominence, passing mesad of the pseudosutural fovea, a rounded whitish spot occupying the region of the pseudo-suture, lateral margins of the sclerite paler, light yellow; scutum, scutellum and post-notum orange-yellow, the latter slightly suffused with brown, especially medially. Pleurse no. 1966. SYNOPSIS OF NEOTROPICAL LIMNOBINAI—ALEXANDER. 523 orange-yellow, darker near the sternum and on the coxe. Halteres black, brown at the extreme bases. Legs: coxe yellowish-brown; trochanters, femora, tibise and tarsi jet black. Wings deep shiny-black throughout. (See fig. 31.) Abdomen: deep orange throughout. Holotype.—Female, Cuernavaca, Mexico (D. L. Crawford, coll.). Type.—tIn collection of Prof. C. F. Baker, Pomona College. GNOPHOMYIA SUBHYALINA, new species. Grayish-brown; legs unicolorous, except tarsi; wings subhyaline, very pale brown with a hyaline cross-band. Male.—Lengtb, 4.8-6 mm; wing, 4.8-6.1 mm. Female.—Length, 5.2-7 mm; wing, 5-6.8 mm. Head: palpi and rostrum dark brown; antenne, basal segments yellowish-brown, flagellum medium brown, the segments covered with a dense pale pubescense. Front, vertex and occiput gray, tinged with browm Thorax: pronotum: scutum grayish-brown; scutellum light yellow, brightest laterally. Mesonotum: grayish-brown, without stripes; pseudo-suture prominent, triangular, with a prolongation extending lateral to the caudal end of the prothoracic scutellum, dark brown scutum grayish-brown, more yellowish on the sides nearest the wing bases; scutellum and post-notum medium brown. Halteres brownish - yellow, knob pale. Legs: coxe and trochanters pale yellow; femora, tibize and most of tarsal segments one and two brown; remainder of the tarsi brownish-black. Wings: subhyaline, veins dark brown; wings very faintly tinged with brown; a broad hyaline band which crosses the wing distad of the cord is broadest posteriorly; venation (see fig. 23). Abdomen: tergum dark brown; sternum lighter yellowish-brown. The paratypes are rather smaller, but undoubtedly belong to the same species. Hatitat.—H olotype.—Cacao, Trece Aguas, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala, April 2 (Schwarz and Barber, coll.). Allotype——Same place as the type, April 20. Paratypes.—Male, Montserrat, Trinidad, West Indies, June, 1897 (Aug. Busck, coll.). Three males, seven females, Aguna, Guatemala, Central America (G. Hisen, coll.). One female, Igarape Asst, Paré, Brazil (H. 8S. Parish, coll.). Types—In U.S. National Museum collection (No. 14931). GNOPHOMYIA HIRSUTA, new species. Thorax light yellow with four stripes; legs with dark tips to the femora, tibie and tarsi; wings hyaline with two conspicuous brown bands. Female.—Length,7 mm.; wing,6.6mm. Head: rostrum and palpi yellowish-brown; antenne, basal segments brownish-yellow, flagellum 524 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. von, 44. lighter yellow, segments with numerous long black hairs. Front, vertex and occiput dull yellow with a brown tinge; gene clearer brown. Thorax: pronotum light yellow. Mesonotum: prescutum covered with a thick pubescence, light yellow with two brown stripes on either side of the median line, these stripes pale, yellowish-brown in front; a large rounded brown spot on the sides of the sclerite before the pseudosuture; scutum, scutellum and post-notum brown, the latter darker. Pleuree light yellow with a broad brown band running from the side of the pronotum, backward under the wing-bases to the post- notum; sternum light brown. Halteres broken, stem yellow. Legs light yellow, a light brown ring at the tip of the femora, a darker one at the tip of the tibix; tarsi, tip of segment 2, all of 3 to 5 dark brown; legs densely hairy. Wings: hyaline with two brown bands, one traversing the wing- basis, extending from near the humeral cross vein to the origin of the sector, narrower in the anal cells. The second band is in the vicinity of the cord, cells second R, almost all included, base of cell R,, tip of cell R, base of cells R; and first M,; a prominent brown cloud at the basal deflection of Cu, and along the second deflection of M, and cross vein m (outer end of cell first M,); a very pale brown cloud extends across the cells R,, R,, R;, and M,. Venation (see fig. 30). Abdomen: tergum light yellow; all except segment 5 with the selerite largely brown, especially caudally and laterally; segment 5 clear yellow; sternum light yellow. Holotype.—Female, Rio de Janiero, Brazil (November) (coll. H. H. Smith). Type.—In American Museum of Natural History. Genus TRIMICRA Osten Sacken. Trimicra OStEN SacKEN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 290; Monographs, vol. 4, 1869, p. 165; Studies, etc., pt. 2, 1887, p. 195. Tlisia Ronpant, Prodr., vol. 1, 1856, p. 182. KEY TO THE AMERICAN SPECIES OF TRIMICRA,. 1. Antenne uniformly brown; wings not a large species, length, 7 mm. or OVER aoe - co eng Seb eee eee eee ee oe eee cee anomala Osten Sacken.* Antenne with the basal pesments yellow; wings pubescent; small species, length, 5 mim. or less: -.. 5s... 2eb ee ce oe ae seek oe ee nee ee pygmexa Alexander.” In the United States National Museum collection is a series of specimens from Mexico which agree very well with the description of T. anomala, and I have determined them as such. As to whether or not this species is conspecific with the European Trimicra pilipes Fabricius, as given by Osten Sacken i in his Western Diptera, page 200; 1 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 290; Minigrayiisy vol 4, p. 167. 2 Psyche, vol. 19, Dec., 1912, p. 166, pl. 13, fig. 3. no. 1966. SYNOPSIS OF NEOT ROPIC. {ZL LIMNOBIN« D—ALBPXANDER. 525 T will not attempt to decide without having European material for comparison. The data for the Mexican specimens are as follows: nase Mexico, December 18, 1907, male and female; February , 1908, male and female; February 16, 1908, two females; March . 1908, three females; March 16, 1908, male. Orizaba, Mexico, March 13, 1908, male and female (Fred. Gib) coll.). KEY TO THE GENERA OF THE LIMNOPHILINI. (Based largely on Needham’s key, 1907.) HPS WICALIY PYGdON Waren ccine xa mii ni aia nie 47 A ooo alae ae ee pa raeione sonra wclciainiaio ee a = = 2: (OI YeCVET ES SSC SS MS Soe ee SE ees aS an Co OSSD SAA CHES OOD Sa ENCE 3. 2. Cell M, present; basal deflection of Cu, near the outer margin of cell first M, (i. e., fusion of Cu, and M, very slight)..................-.. . Trichocera Meigen. Cell M, absent; basal deflection of Cu, at, or near, the fork af M (i. e., fusion of Ga andyn qxtonsive) sacs s nee eee at seein einen nies Ischnothrix Bigot. Se REGIA CrOoesuvell! SDBENGs . cos tosis ceinie eaiaetacalt cate Phyllolabis Osten Sacken. Il est pee Oc hoe aoa Sac cotascus Baodo soos ppacesagse 4, 4. Cross vein m absent; fusion of M, and Cu, long and ending in a sy mime brical FOR ose ae eee ad re trees ae Mee Pes Secis e s NS avs Polymera W ear’ Cross vein m present; fusion of M,; and Cu, neatly short; fork not symmetrical. . 5. Wings pubescent; two branches of M..............------ Ulomorpha Osten Sac cs Wings glabrous (usually); if pubescent, three branches of M at the wing margin. .6. 6. A supernumerary cross vein in cell C............------ Epiphragma Osten Sacken. No mupernnumerary.cross ven in Cell Glee. oc sce saan sice snc eisie eles aime eae es Up 7. Antenne of male with long pectinations; usually with more than 16 segments. Ctedonia Philippi. Antenne of male of various shapes, but never pectinate; 16-segmented.......... 8. 8. Se very long, approximating R, at wing-margin ............. Lecteria Osten Sacken. Se shorter, always distant from R, at the tip...2............Limnophila Macquart. Genus ISCHNOTHRIX Bigot. Ischnothrix Bicor, Miss. Sci. Cape Horn, Zodl., pt. 6, 1888, pp. 7, 8, pl. 2. Male—Related to the genus TJrichocera. Antenne hair-like, two or three times as long as the body, with 13 or 14 (?) segments, segment 1 short, stout, second scarcely visible, the remainder elongated, cylindrical, attenuated apically; rostrum almost as long as the head, horizontal, abruptly truncated at the tip; palpi 5 segmented, the fifth not much longer than the others, indistinctly furrowed; three ocelli; feet very long, smooth, not swollen; wings margined with short hairs, twice as long as the abdomen; first and second longitudinal (Rondani) veins separate at their tips; three yeins emerge from the pentagonal discal cell, widely separated basally, not forked; from the first basal cell, two veins, the outer forked; hypopygium small, clasping; abdomen scantily clothed with fine hairs on both sides. (Bigot). ISCHNOTHRIX ZTHEREA (Bigot). Male.—Hight mm. Antenne testaceous, broadly infuscated at the tip; palpi black; rostrum brown, tip tinged with black; head 526 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vot, 44. brown, front with a median brown vitta; thorax reddish, tinged with dull brown; halteres whitish; abdomen testaceous, incisures infuscated; feet testaceous; wings almost hyaline, in the middle slightly tinged with whitish; stigma small, black; transverse veins and the third longitudinal vein at the base margined with brown. Translated from Bigot’s original description. His figure shows an insect with a moderately long Se,; Se, not far from the tip of Se,; R,,, long fused, much longer than either R, or R,, which are sub- equal; M,,, fused to the wing margin; the outer deflection of M, about equal to the cross-vein m; basal deflection of Cu, at the fork of M. The anal angle of the wing is prominent. Genus POLYMERA Wiedemann. Polymera WrEDEMANN, Dipt. Exot., vol. 1, 1821, p. 40 —OstEen SackEen, Mono- graphs, vol. 4, 1869, p. 335; Studies, etc., pt. 2, 1887, p. 215. The genus Polymera is a very characteristic one in the Neotropical regions. Almost every collection brought from South or Central America includes specimens of this interesting group, and it is very probable that it will ultimately prove to be one of the largest genera of the tropical crane-fly fauna. One species, Polymera magnifica Meunier,! has been described as fossil. The recent species hitherto described, five in number, range from Brazil to the southeastern United States. I have had for study about 25 specimens which included all of the known species, excepting fusca Wiedemann and albitarsis Williston, as well as seven new forms. The males, as now known, are all characterized by extremely elongated antenne, at least as long as the body, and usually clothed with long delicate, outstretched hairs. The antennal segments may be . elongate-cylindrical and not constricted (niveifarsis and possibly fusca), or they may be constricted once, producing a bi-nodose effect (most of the species), or constricted twice, producing a tri-nodose appearance (plewralis). Specialization in wing venation is also evident, ranging from a generalized form like niveitarsis with deep forks, through plewralis which has lost one of the forks (M,.,. fused to the margin) but still has a deep medio-cubital fork, to conjuncta, which shows a decided tendency for Cu, and M, to fuse to the wing- margin. Wiedemann does not say that the antenns of the female fusca are elongated like those of the male (as described by Williston, Dipt. St. Vincent, p. 297). The sex of the specimen that he figures is not given, but it is undoubtedly a male. The venation and antenne are so similar to niveitarsis that it would not be surprising if the second specimen that Wiedemann possessed? from’ the Frankfort Museum proved to belong to that species. 1 Ann. Sci. Nat. Zodl., vol. 4, p. 385, pl. 14, figs. 11, 12; pl. 15, fig. 2; pl. 16, fig. 1. 2 Auss. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 1, p. 554. no, 1966. SYNOPSIS OF NEOTROPICAL LIMNOBINDM—ALPXANDER. 527 Antenne: first segment broadly oval-cylindrical; second short, oval-cylindrical, much narrower than the first; third segment elongate-cylindrical, not constricted, with long delicate hairs; seg- ments 4 to the end, constricted at the ends, and constricted once or twice medially, producing a bi-nodose or tri-nodose appearance. As previously stated, some (as niveitarsis) have simple flagellar segments; at the nodes, the segments are clothed with long outstretched hairs which are much longer than the segments which bear them; inter- spersed with these are very short, prominent bristles, and over the whole segment is a fine delicate pubescence. Palpi: first segment very short, second and third subequal in diameter and length; fourth about as long as 2 and 3 together, narrower than either. Venation: Se, at, or near, the tip of Se,; R long, R, usually far back from its tip; M, and M, usually separate at the wing-margin; M, and Cu, fused for a considerable distance, when separating, the fork symmetrical; cross vein m absent. Genitalia: male (obscura); pleuree very long, cylindrical, thickly clothed on the external facies with long hairs; two apical appendages; anal tube broad, distinct; guard of the penis scarcely visible from the exterior. KEY TO THE SPECIES OF POLYMERA. Celie Mirentteliyabsen ba. 6 se ae- Sacre. oan e tra goa eeiaseiee he Amersia cine alanis 2. Cell M, PLCSCNt.-.---- 0+ sees eee eee ee eee eee teeter ees 3. 2. Large species (wing 6.2-6.8 mm.); Cu,+M, shorter than M, alone; pleure dark; farsiowhiteneec cm comet cc seencees nese le nee pleuralis, new species (Brazil). Small species (wing 3-3.5 mm.); Cu,+M, longer than M, alone; pleure not dark; EARSUTIOE WNIULO Seater eae ne rc ela 3585 conjuncta, new species (Brazil). Se Wings not unifornuin Coloma iON sn ace eee om ae clan. S2is (= 52)fe mie ne neces saison 4. Wangs iunifonmsinicoloratone aces me atee aia 5s ide =o oie ela o!a:neieielors ic areisinss\esioi-lerseice 6. 4. Wings dark colored with lighter spots or fascive................-2..-220--200000- 5. Wings hyaline, or nearly so, with small brown spots at the forks of most of the BENE eso cee eee De prefaeieme Se levee ae occ! obscura Macquart (Brazil). 5. Wings with white or whitish spots.....-. superba, new species (Costa Rica, Brazil). Wings with a light yellow cross-band.............-.-- hirticornis Fabricius (Brazil). 6. Flagellar segments of the antenne elongate-cylindrical, not noticeably con- RUDI | so 5 RAGS REI GAU DRONES CHOA SO OS OCR OE EAC NESE p A Ae Sne ee Haier tes Ue Flagellar segments of the antennz constricted once or twice, giving a multi-seg- mented appearance) to the antennse 5... <2... a2 esse ee claw e ce cscaceaee 8. anvats Of all the leps white a2. <<:-/26 =,