102 KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



Family AnthomyiDye. 



Phorbia cinerella Fal. Kansas, Douglas county; May. — Colorado, Colorado 

 Springs; April. Denver and Tabernash; August, 

 fusciceps Zett. Kansas, Douglas county; April; April, at night; 

 June; June, twilight. Sedgwick county; April. New to Kan- 

 sas.— Colorado, Colorado Springs; April. Denver; August. 

 Coenosia lata Wlk. (=canescens Stein, as Mr. Coquillett determined it). 



Kansas, Douglas county; April, July, August. New to Kansas. 

 Schoenomyza dorsalis Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; May, June. New to 

 Kansas. —Colorado, Colorado Springs; July, August. Tabernash; August. 



Family Scatophagid^. 



Scatophaga furcata Say. Kansas, Douglas county; April; May, at electric 

 light. 



Family Helomyzid^. 



Leria pectinata Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; April, at night. New to 

 Kansas. 



Family Borborid^. 



Limosina atra Adams. Kansas, Douglas county; July, at electric light on 

 bridge across Kansas river in Lawrence ( type) . — Colorado, Colorado 

 Springs and Tabernash; August (compared with type). 

 Limosina evanescens, new species. Kansas, Douglas county; June; June, 

 twilight; July, at electric light. Types: Four specimens; one de- 

 posited in the United States National Museum, Washington, D. C, 

 the others in the collection of the University of Kansas. For the 

 Kansas list. Six metatypes: Brookings, S. Dak., collected by Prof. 

 J. M. Aldrich. 

 In perfect mature condition, such as is presented by most of my examples, 

 the body and legs are almost wholly dullish black, about the only de- 

 viation being a tawny color of the legs, especially the middle tarsi, 

 besides some spots on the pleura. Any portion of the body that 

 shines has suffered denudation of its pollinose coating. The dorsum 

 of thorax is clothed with numerous black bristles and short, stubby 

 hairs; front of head also bristly. Scutellum flat, with two long 

 bristles near apex and one on each side near base. 

 Antennae wholly black, except very fine grayish pubescence on the long 

 arista, the third joint vertically reniform, with the second joint en- 

 larged against it and fitting into the concavity; both of these joints 

 with bristly hairs. 

 The metatarsal joint of the hind legs is only slightly incrassate, as the 

 brush-like pubescence underneath makes the size deceptively large. 

 In length it is more than half as long as the second joint, which is 

 also pubescent beneath. 

 Wings uniformly hyaline, though in some cases with a feeble yellowish 

 tinge, especially in the marginal cell. The second vein joins the costa 

 with a more or less deflecting curve at or slightly beyond half the dis- 

 tance between tip of first and third vein. Fourth vein evanescent, 

 the fifth short appendiculate beyond the discal cell. Third longitudinal 

 vein perfectly straight with one specimen, ending at a point almost 



