Jan., '08] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



33. Stigma brownish ; wings with a slight pubesence in the apical portion. 



pubipennis O. S. 

 Stigma pale ; wings without pubesence cervina n. sp. 



34. Wings brownish, three or four brown spots along the anterior mar- 



gin rara O. S. 



Wings with brown dots in all the cells 



35. Markings on the wings intense ; lobes of the hypopygium rather 



elongated and deeply incised on the inner margin. 



simulans Walk. 



Markings on the wings less intense ; lobes of the hypopygium not in- 

 cised duplicata Doane. 



Dicranomyia Viridicans n. sp. Greenish ; head somewhat darker 

 above ; palpi and antennae light brown ; first two segments of the latter 

 much paler ; thorax and abdomen wholly brownish green ; the large 



lobes of the hypopygium bright- 

 er green, their inner margins 

 furnished with a strongly chitin- 

 ized reddish three-pronged ap- 

 pendage ; halters whitish ; legs 

 greenish, femora somewhat lighter towards the base ; wings whitish hya- 

 line ; stigma pale ; subcostal cross-vein near the tip of the auxiliaiy vein, 

 which is opposite the origin of the praefurca ; veins greenish ; discal cell 

 closed, three times as long as wide ; great cross-vein some distance be- 

 fore the inner end of the discal cell. Length smm., wing 9 mm. 



Hab. Stanford University, Cal. One male. 



Dicranomyia particeps n. sp. Brownish yellow ; head yellowish, 

 brownish above ; rostrum yellow ; palpi brown, first segment yellow ; an- 

 tennae brown ; thorax yellow with three brown stripes above ; scutellum 

 and metanotum grayish ; halteres long, brownish, yellowish at the base ; 

 legs brownish, feet darker ; abdo- 

 men brownish, yellowish below ; 

 posterior margin of each segment 

 lighter ; the tergum of the hypopy- 

 gium somewhat tumid, with a very narrow median black line, pleura very 

 much smaller than the tumid lobes ; upper valves of ovipositor slender, 

 arcuated, lower valves stronger, almost straight ; wings long and narrow, 

 hyaline ; auxiliary vein ending a short distance before the origin of the 

 praefurca ; the distance of the subcostal cross-vein from the tip of the 

 auxiliary vein about equal to the length of the praefurca ; stigrna faint 

 brownish ; discal cell closed ; great cross : vein at its inner end. Length 

 6 mm., wing 7 mm. 



Hab.-- Key port, Wash. Nine males, six females. 



This species shares with haltcrata and adjccta the extra lm- 



