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marginal notches from the two other lesser loin's (pl.S, fig.8). The 

 middle lobe of the lower lamella is likewise Hat, but narrow, 

 linear, and with a belter development of the two other lobes at 

 its base. There is a slight decrease in length on segments 2-7; 

 and on l', and again on 7, the anterior of the three lobes of the 

 upper lamella is scarcely developed. Setae three, fragile, slender, 

 with minute apical whorls ( >f spinules on the segments. 



Color olivaceous brown above, with a variable middle pale line, 

 fenestrate upon the dorsum of the abdomen with paler olivaceous. 

 I'.elow, with a broad pale median area. 



Several of my nymphs from Fall creek have colonial Vorticel- 

 lidae attached promiscuously about the dorsum, or aggregated 

 about the bases of the setae. 



Pl.S. fig.l. shows the venation and tig.L' of the same plate shows 

 the form of the appendages of the male imago in this species. 



Baetis pygmaea Ha gen 



This dainty little maytly, which I described in bulletin 47 (pp. 

 421 iL'.'t, pi. 15, fig.l o and 14), I bred also from nymphs obtained 

 in Fall creek with those of the preceding species, and I took a 

 few specimens of the imagos in trap lanterns hung about the 

 creek during July 1001. 



Callibaetis skokiana Xeedham 



I wish to record here concerning this species that I have made 

 a careful examination of microscopic mounts of the stomach con- 

 tents of ten well-grown nymphs taken from the (Jym pond on the 

 campus of Lake Forest College in Illinois, and have found them 

 containing no recognizable animal remains whatever, but only 

 remains of plant tissues. chieHy the disintegrating fragments of 

 the dead leaves of the higher plants, such as litter from the 

 pond bottom, with a scanty sprinkling of algae Cy a n o p h y- 

 ceae and stalked diatoms. 



Blasturus cupidus Say 



I have found his species common in Six Mile creek at Ithaca, 

 where I bred it in 1807. I have apparently identical nymphs in 

 my collection from Elkhart, Indiana, and Raleigh, North Caro- 

 lina. The images of this genus appear in late spring. As be- 

 fore remarked, Berry has described the nymph in the American 



