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segments, the surface with minute, pointed, chitinous scale-lilie 

 j)i'ojectious. Body smooth and liaiiiess; the abdominal segments 

 under the higliest magnifieation minutely punctate; the lateral 

 margins of the last two segments with four or five pale, slender 

 filaments. The caudal fin (fig.4) Nvith rounded paddle, and with 

 small, short, marginal setae. 



The imago, female. Head, including front, vertex, back of head, 

 orbit, and basal antennal joint, yellowish. The second antennal 

 joint and a triangular spot on vertex polished black; the remain- 

 ing antennal joints, the dorsal surface of proboscis and palpi deep 

 fuscous. Thorax, including pleura and pectus, yellowish like the 

 head, the last sometimes blackish; the dorsum with three dark 

 brown or black longitudinal stripes, the middle one divided; scu- 

 tellum and metanotum blackish. Abdomen fuscous, each segment 

 \Tith a wide dusky yellow, posterior margin ; venter dusky yellow, 

 the hair of scutellum and the first abdominal segment stiff and 

 black, the remaining abdominal segments with yellowish hairs. 

 Legs yellowish, the tips of the tibiae and of the metatarsi, and the 

 whole of the remaining tarsal joints subfuscous or blackish. Fore 

 metatarsus about two thirds as long as its tibia. Fourth tarsal 

 joint ob^ordate. 



Wings subli^aline, hairless, the radial veins yellow, the basal 

 part of the media and cubitus as far as the crossveins dusky, 

 the latter also darkened; the other veins jDale; R^, present, near 

 the apex of Rj ; the cubitus forks far distad of tlie crossveins. 

 Halteres pale yellow. Length 24 mm. Ithaca N. Y. 



12. Procladius pinguis Loew 

 1861 T a 11 y p u s Lw. Berl. Eut. Zeit. p.308 



(P1.27, fig.3; pI.19, figs. 3 and 4) 



The larva is of a reddish color of almost as deep a shade as a 

 Chiron oui us larva. The single larval skin was lost. The 

 pupa is fuscous: its respiratory trumpets are white, compara 

 tively large^ with the free end open and larger in diameter than 

 at any other point. The surface quite smooth. The abdomen is 

 nearly devoid of setae, excepting the margin of the last two 

 segments, which are as shown in fig.4. pl.19; each with about five 

 filaments on each side. The caudal fin is nearly circular in out- 

 line with a V-shaped notch at the apex, margin ciliate. 



The imago, female. Black, shining; wings cinereous hyaline, 

 bare, the heavier veins dark fuscous; halteres white; first pair of 

 legs pitchy black, bases of femora yellow; middle and hind legs 



