344 A. L. MELANDER. 



ment and the globose hypopygiuni shining black, upper valves of hypopygiunj 

 small, bristly, especially the right one, last ventral fringed with moderately long 

 black hairs. Coxse and legs yellowish, front coxae with a fringe of hairs beneath, 

 their forward side and the under side of the posterior trochanters with a black 

 spot. Front femora with a black transverse dumb-bell-shaped mark at the middle 

 of the under side, below which is a large elongate cui-ved black space which spreads 

 straight downward to the inferior edge along its lower loop ; under side of the front 

 tibiae and of the hind femora piceous, hind tibiae fuscous, tarsi infuscated apically ; 

 front femora incrassate, ciliate beneath with a double series of conspicuous dusky 

 hairs, front tibiae slightly incrassate, not setulate but provided with a number of 

 fine short hairs, front metatarsi with minute setulae ; middle and hind femora 

 slender, simple, middle tibiae slightly surpassing the femora, scarcely indented 

 towards tip. Halteres lightly infuscated. Wings infumated, darker beyond 

 basal third, veins black, all the cross-veins straight, perpendicular, the distance 

 between the central cross-veins equal to the length of the posterior one, anal 

 cross-vein abrupt. 



Described from one male takeu by Mr. George M. Greene, Sep- 

 tember 9, 1901, at Boonton, N. J. This may possibly be the 

 insect Mr. Walker described as similis, though from his description 

 alone it is impossible to decide. It is a finely characterized species 

 easily distinguished by the fringe on the front femora, which well 

 merits the redescription should it eventually proove to be Mr. 

 Walker's species. 



Page 230. Coloboneura innsitata mihi. 



In the collection at Cambridge are two females from Rhode 

 Island. They differ in no essential way from the description of the 

 males. The humeral callostity is concolorous with the remainder of 

 the thorax. The costa has a basal bristle rather longer than the 

 others. 



Page 232. CHIROMANTIS Eondani. 



Small, slender, sparsely hairy species of light yellow color. An- 

 tennae short, three-jointed, the third joint ovate, with the seta bent 

 downward. Proboscis shorter than the head. Eyes of female sepa- 

 rated. Thorax rather prominently raised. Abdomen of male blunt 

 at tip, of the female with a porrect two-styled ovipositor. Legs 

 lengthened, frcmt coxae as long as the thickened femora. Wings 

 long and narrow, third vein pimple, discal cell present, with three 

 veins issuing from it, or wanting, in which case the fourth vein is 

 forked, anal cell shorter than the second basal, anal angle not filled. 

 (Taken from Schiner's description of Thamnodroviia). 



The genus is related to Litanomyia, which differs in having the 



