14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. - [Jan., '03 



Notes on Some Adirondack Dtptera Collected by 

 Messrs. MacGillivray and Houghton. 



BY O. A. JOHANNSEN. 



The following note.s are published as supplementary to the 

 " L,ist, etc.," given by Messrs. MacGillivray and Houghton in 

 the preceding pages. All the flies were collected near Axton, 

 N. Y., in June, 1901. 



Limnopliila macrocera Say ' Compl. Wr. ii, 46. 



A single male specimen in the collection agrees with Osten 

 Sacken's description in Monographs, etc., iv, p. 294, in every 

 particular excepting that it possesses two supernumerary cross- 

 veins in the cell R., (Comst.) proximal of the cross-vein of cell 

 R x in the one wing, and one supernumerary in the other. 



Pachyrrhina pedtiLCulata I.oew. Centur. iv, 24. 



$ . In the specimen in hand the sides of the first abdominal 

 segment are yellow. 



Sciophila pulchra, n. sp. 



This fly differs from 5". subcteruiea Coq. in the following par- 

 ticulars : The taorax has no bluish tinge, the mouth parts are 

 black and not yellow, and the antennae are gray. Length, 10 mm. 



9- Black, polished, with a brownish tin;;e. Palpi black, basal joint 

 yellowish ; face, front and occiput shinirg bl;..ck. Antennas fuscous, with 

 whitish, very short appressed pile. Dorsum of the thorax, scutellum, 

 metanoturn and p'eurae polished black, sparsely covered with very short 

 pale hairs ; the prothoracic spiracle, the dorso-pleural suture, and behind 

 the root of the wings slightly yellowish. Abdomen shining black with a 

 brownish tinge, especially at the incisures .md the venter. The hairs 

 covering the abdomen are short and pale. Femora and coxa?, and ante- 

 rior and middle tibiae are a deep yellow ; hind tibiae are slightly infuscated, 

 all tarsi are brown, darker apically ; tips of the posterior femora and of 

 all tibiae are brown. The middle femora have a short stout blunt spur on 

 the under side near the apex ; the fore and i:ind tibiae each with one, the 

 middle tibiae with two spurs. The wing v< nation resembles figure Sa, 

 plate xix. in Winnertz' " Pilzmueckeu," the forking of the Cubitus 

 (Comst.) being proximad of the cross vein, hut differs in that the small 

 cross vein is neaier the base cf the sriall :ell ; R is straighter, and R. 

 4+5 is slightly curved forward so that the di-tal third is parallel with R : 



