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swept fr6m rank vegetation at Sacandaga Park, Fulton Co., N. Y., 

 June 1, 1914. Three females taken in Simmon's woods, Glovers- 

 ville, N. Y., June 3, 1914, in company with a cranefly fauna that is 

 quite characteristic of northern woodlands that support a rich 

 Canadian flora. {Dicranomyia puhipennis, Rhypholophus ruhellus, 

 Erioptera stigmatica, Adelphoniyia minuta, Limnophila rufibasis, 

 L. areolata, Rhaphidolabis flaveola, Tricyphona calcar, etc.) 



Subgenus EPHELIA Schiner. 



1S63. Ephelia Schiner; Wien. Entomol. Monatschr., vol. 7, p. 222. 

 Limnophila (Ephelia) johnsoni sp. n. 



Color yellow; wings hyaline, unmarked; a supernumerary cross- 

 vein in cell M. 



Male, length, 4 mm.; wing, 6.1 mm. 



Female, length, 7.2 mm.; wing, 8.6 mm. 



Rostrum pale brownish yellow; palpi and antennae very pale 

 yellowish brown. Head yellow with a pale bloom, eyes conspicu- 

 ously contrasting, black. 



Pronotum pale yellow. Mesonotal prsescutum pale yellow with 

 four broad indistinct darker stripes, of which the median pair are 

 the longest; scutum, scutellum and postnotum light yellow with 

 a sparse pale gray bloom. Pleurae yellowish. Halteres pale yellow. 

 Legs yellow, the tibiae and tarsi a little suffused with brown. Wings 

 pale yellow, the veins pale; venation (PL XXV, fig. 2): Rs rather 

 long, angulated at base, in a line with the deflection of R2+3; cross-vein 

 r not distinct; basal deflection of Rt+i and M1+2 strongly arcuated 

 and in a line; a strong supernumerary cross-vein in cell M. 



Abdomen very light brownish yellow. 



Holotype, d^, Mountain Lake, Fulton Co., N. Y., alt. 1,590 feet, 

 June 17, 1914 (C. P. Alexander). 



Allotype, 9 , Bretton Woods, N. H., June 23, 1913 (C. W. Johnson). 



This interesting new species is named in honor of the well-known 

 dipterologist, Mr. Charles W. Johnson, who collected the allotype. 

 The only other species of Ephelia in America are aprilina O. S. and 

 superUneata Doane which have the wings heavily spotted with 

 brown. 



Subgenus DACTYLOLABIS Osten Sacken. 

 18.59. Dadylolabis Osten Sacken; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 240. 



Limnophila (Dactylolabis) hortensia sp. n. 



Wings subhyaline; color gray, hypopygium reddish. 

 Male, length, about 8 mm.; wing, 8.8 mm. 

 Female, length, 7.8 8.4 mm.; wing, 8.4-8.8 mm. 



