182 BULLETIN 116, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



son, Insects of New Jersey, reports it from Jamesburg, July 4, and 

 Westville, Aug. 18. 



No. 127. DOLICHOPUS PUGIL Loew. 



Dolichopiis pugil Loew, Centuries, vol. 8, No. 77. — ^Johnson, Insects of New 



Jersey, 1909, p. 756. 

 Dolichopus henshawi Wheeler, Psyche, vol. 5, 1890, p. 340. — Melander and 



Brues, Biol. Bull., vol. 1, 1900, p. 134. 



Male. — Length 5-6 mm. ; of wing 4.75-5 mm. Face moderately 

 narrow, long, yellow. Front violet with a narrow edge of green along 

 the orbits and above the antennae. Antennae yellow; first joint 

 rather long, with bristly hairs on upper half; third joint a little longer 

 than wide, somewhat conical in outline, pouited at tip, its apical half 

 black; arista thick, longer than the antennae. Proboscis black; palpi 

 yellow. Lateral and mferior orbital cilia yellow, endhig hi one black 

 bristle at the proboscis, about six of the upper cilia on each side black. 



Thorax green with copper}^ reflections, which usually form a 

 median vitta on the dorsum, it often has blue reflections on the pos- 

 terior portion and on the scutellum; a little dulled with grayish 

 pollen along the front of the dorsum and with brownish pollen on the 

 disk which is easily overlooked; pleurae dulled with white pollen. 

 Abdomen green with green reflections; the white pollen on its sides 

 extends upon the dorsum. Hypopygium black; its lamellae rather 

 large, somewhat round in outline but narrowing into the stem, 

 whitish with a narrow black border on the apical margin, jagged and 

 bristly at lower corner, the rest of the apical margin fringed with 

 long black bristly hairs, which are nearly as long as the width of the 

 lamellae, lower edge with a few yellow hairs. 



Fore coxae yellow, usually with a blackish spot at base on outer 

 side, their anterior surface covered with conspicuous black hairs; 

 middle and hmd coxae black with yellow tips. Femora and tibiae 

 yellow. Middle and hmd femora each with one preapical bristle, 

 the latter ciliated on lower inner edge with long black hairs, the 

 longest of which are nearly one and a fourth times as long as the 

 width of the femora, on basal fourth the hair become short and 

 yellowish. Anterior tibiae (fig. 127a) a little enlarged and slightly 

 infuscated at tip, where there are a few conspicuous flattened black 

 hairs. Posterior tibiae a little thickened, blackened a little at tip 

 on lower surface and on the sides, yellow to the tij) on upper surface; 

 on mner side there is a blackish streak exteiidhig toward the base 

 from the black of the tip and also a blackish streak from the base to 

 the middle, sometimes it reaches the tip. Fore tarsi (fig. 1276) 

 one and a fourth tunes as long as their tibiae; first jomt pale yellow 

 with a black tip, nearly as long as the three followuig joints taken 

 together; second and third of nearly equal length, wholly pale yellow; 

 fourth about one-half as long and a little wider than third, pale 



