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Subfamily CYLINDROTOMIN^. 

 Genus CYLINDEOTOMA Macquart. 

 1834. Cylindrotoma Macquart; Suit, a Buffon, vol. 1, p. 107. 

 Cylindrotoma splendens Doane. 



1900. Cylindrotoma splendens Doane; Journal of the New York Ento- 

 mological Society, vol. 8, p. 197, pi. 8, fig. 21. 



1900. Cylindrotoma junda Coquillett; Proceedings of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences, vol. 2, p. 401. 



Doane's type (No. 7,051 U. S. N. M., from Unalaska, August 24, 

 1897) was described three months before Coquillett's junda (No. 

 5,204 U. S. N. M., Virgin's Bay, Alaska, June 26, 1899) appeared 

 in press. 



Cylindrotoma tarsalis Johnson. 



1912. Cylindrotoma tarsalis Johnson; Psyche, vol. 19, p. 2, fig. 4. 



1912. Cylindrotoma (?) anomala Johnson; Psyche, vol. 19, pp. 2, 3, fig. 3. 



The two names given above represent one and the same species. 

 I have found this insect conmionly in various parts of Fulton 

 County, N. Y. 



Genua PHALACROCERA Schiner. 

 1863. Phalacrocera Schiner; Wien. Ent. Monatschr., vol. 7, p. 224. 

 Phalacrocera neoxena sp. n. 



Wings dark-colored; vein Ri persistent at the tip as in replicata 

 Linnseus. 



Male, length, 11.8-12 mm.; wing, 10.4-11 mm. 



Female, length, 11.8 mm.; wing, 10.9-11.9 mm. 



Rostrmn and palpi dark brownish black. Antennae dark brownish 

 black. Head broad, black with a sparse grayish bloom. 



Pronotum black with a gray bloom which is most intense on the 

 sides of the scleriles. Mesonotal prsescutum with a pale yellowish 

 gray bloom; four indistinct darker stripes, the median pair long, 

 the lateral pair short and broad; scutum, scutellum and postnotum 

 with a pale grayish white bloom. Pleurae black with a gray bloom 

 which leaves patches of the ground color at intervals. Halteres 

 long, brown. Legs, coxae grey, trochanters and femora yellowish 

 brown, brown at the tip, tibiae light brown, darker brown at the tip, 

 tarsi dark brown. Wings with a brown suffusion; stigma prominent, 

 oval, brown; veins dark brown; venation (PI. XXV, fig. 10): Rs 

 very long, almost straight; cross- vein r short; i^i beyond r persistent 

 as in replicata, not atrophied as in tipulina; cross-vein r-m present 

 as a short vein or else lost by the slight fusion of 7^4+5 on M1+2; cell 

 1st Mo large, arcuated at. the base. 



Abdominal tergites brown with a dark brownish black median 

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