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Family Stratiomyid^. 



Sargus decorus Say. Kansas, Douglas county; May; May, at night; June; 

 July; September, mostly hovering in shady places or at twilight. 

 —Colorado, Manitou; July, 

 elegans Loew. Kansas, Douglas county, July. New to Kansas, 

 viridis Say. Kansas, Douglas county; June. Sedgwick county; 

 April. — Colorado, Colorado Springs; July. 

 Stratiomyia apicula Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; September. 

 Euparyphus albipilosus Adams. (Erroneously spelled albipilus in Aldrich's 

 catalogue.) Colorado, Colorado Springs; August (type), 

 mutabilis Adams. Colorado, Colorado Springs; August (type). 



Family Tabanid^. 



Chrysops fulvaster O. S. Colorado, Colorado Springs; July, August. 

 Tabanus costalis Wied. Kansas, Douglas county; July, 

 exul O. S. Kansas, Sedgwick county; August, 

 lineola Fab. Kansas, Douglas county; June, August, 

 punctifer O. S. Colorado, Colorado Springs; July, 

 quinquevittatus Wied. Kansas, Douglas county; June. New to 



Kansas, 

 sulcifrons Macq. Kansas, Douglas county; July, August, Septem- 

 ber. 



Family Leptid^. 



Xylomyia pallipes Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; May; June; July, twi- 

 light. —Colorado, Denver; August. 

 Chrysopila flavibarbis Adams. Colorado, Colorado Springs; August (com- 

 pared with types ) . 

 humilis Loew. Colorado, Colorado Springs; August, 

 modesta Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; June; July; July, twi- 

 light, 

 quadrata Say. Kansas, Douglas county; June, 

 testaceipes Bigot. Colorado, Cheyenne canyon; July. Colorado 

 Springs; August. 

 Hilarimorpha mikii Will. Colorado, Colorado Springs; July. 



Family Bombyliid^. 



Spogostylum pauper Loew. Kansas, Douglas county; July. 

 Exoprosopa caliptera Say. Colorado, Buffalo; August. 



There is very slight difference only in pattern of wings, and that may be 

 due to variation, between this and capucina Fab. 

 Exoprosopa capucina Fab. Colorado, Buffalo; August. 



fasciata Macq. Kansas, Sedgwick county; August. Douglas 

 county; September. 

 Anthrax alcyon Say ( erroneously halcyon ) . Colorado, Manitou, Colorado 



Springs, Denver, and Buffalo; August. 



Anthrax alta, new species. Colorado, Colorado Springs; August, 1906, one 



female specimen. Type in collection of the University of Kansas. 



Somewhat similar to inculta Coq., especially on account of the band 



of white tomentum on front and margins of thorax, and continuing on 



across base of scutellum, but differs in the following particulars: To- 



