DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES. 45 



costa near the tip of the first longitudinal vein with an elongated 

 but not very stout swelling; the fourth longitudinal vein not 

 broken. 



Hob. Illinois. 



Observation 1. I believe I possess also the 9 of this species 

 in a single specimen, and would not doubt it at all if the tip of 

 the hind tibiae did not show a rather distinct brown coloring, 

 which is not perceptible in the g. All the other 'marks in the 

 9 are precisely as they might be expected in the 9 of the above 

 described <g . The fore tarsi are blackened from the tip of the 

 first joint. 



Observation 2. D. splendidus differs from D. subciliatus not 

 only by being much brighter, but particularly by the much less 

 perceptible lengthening of the fore tarsi and by the much longer 

 and much closer ciliation of the hind femora of the male. 



17. D. Itmtillifer LOEW. $ and 9. Aeneo-viridis, pedibus flavis, 

 coxis anticis tibiisque posticis totis concoloribus, antennis tarsisque 

 posticis nigris, horum basi flava, ciliis oculorum inferioribus tegula- 

 rumque ciliis flavicantibus, maris ultimo tarsorum anticoruna articulo 

 admodum dilatato. 



Metallic-green ; fore coxse and feet yellow ; the tip of the hind tibiae not 

 darker ; antennae and hind tarsi black, the latter at the base yellow ; 

 cilia of the inferior orbit and of the tegulaa yellowish ; the last joint of 

 the fore tarsi of the remarkably enlarged. Long. corp. 0.26. Long. 

 al. 0.25. 



STN. Dolichopus batillifer LOEW, Neue Beitr. VIII, 15, 10. 



Metallic-green, bright. Face of the narrow, more light 

 ochre-yellowish than golden-yellow ; the face of the 9 broader and 

 yellowish-white. Antennae quite black, the lower corner of the 

 first joint only somewhat lighter ; the third joint short. Front 

 green, or bluish-green, bright. Cilia of the inferior orbit yellow- 

 -ish. The more bronze-colored middle line of the thorax often 

 hardly perceptible ; on each side before the transverse suture a 

 bronze-colored spot. Fore coxae yellow, upon the whole anterior 

 side with a black pubescence. Hind coxae only at the extreme tip 

 yellow. Hind femora with a bristle before the tip. Fore tarsi 

 black only at the tip. Middle tarsi blackened from the tip of the 

 first joint, still the base of the first and of the second joints is often 

 not quite black. The hind tarsi are of the |&me color. Cilia of 



