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2. At least the basal half of all the femora yellow; legs stout, hairy; wings 



tinged with brown (fig. 4) munda O. S. 



Fore femora with the extreme base only, yellow ; legs slender, not con- 

 spicuously hairy; wings almost hyaline (fig. 3) mundoides n. sp. 



3. Entire mesonotal prsescutum with a gray bloom ; fore femora with only the 



apices brown ; venation in fig. 5 terebrans n. sp. 



Interspaces of the mesonotal praescutum with a gray bloom ; fore femora 

 brown except at the extreme base; venation as in fig. 6 . . .barberi n. sp. 



Limnophila terrae-novae new species. 



Belongs to the adusta group ; head gray ; thorax dark brown ; wings in- 

 fuscated with brown at the tip. 



Female. — Length, 9.5— 11. 3 mm.; wing, 9.2— 11. 4 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae with the first segment elon- 

 gated, dark brown with a sparse grayish bloom ; segments two to six yellowish 

 brown ; the terminal segments brown. Head gray. 



Mesonotal prsscutum dark brown, shiny, covered with a sparse yellowish 

 brown bloom which becomes almost lacking on the median area ; scutum, 

 scutellum and postnotum similar to the prsescutum. Pleura brown, sparsely 

 grayish yellow pollinose, the dorso-pleural membranes yellow. Halteres yel- 

 low with the knob brown; legs with the cocxse and trochanters shiny yellow; 

 femora brown, slightly brightened basally ; tibiae and tarsi brownish yellow, 

 the latter more brownish apically. Wings with a pale brown tinge, the costal 

 cell brown, yellowish at the base of the wings ; stigma elongated, dark brown ; 

 apex of the wings infuscated ; brown seams along the cord, crossveins and 

 deflections of veins ; Cii and Rs narrowly seamed with brown. Venation (see 

 plate VIII, fig. 7) as in the adusta group. 



Abdomen dark brown, the ovipositor reddish. 



Habitat. — Newfoundland. 



Holotype, 5- Sandy Lake, Newfoundland; July 28, 1906; Owen 

 Bryant. 



Paratypes, 2 J's, topotypic, July 25-28, 1906. 



The type is in the collection of Mr. Charles W. Johnson ; para- 

 types in the collection of the author. 



This fly comes closest to L. similis Alex. (Eastern U. S.), L. 

 fulfocostalis Coq. (Bering Is.), and L. insularis Johnson (Bermuda) ; 

 L. similis has the legs with the brown apices to the segments narrow, 

 the costal cell yellow, etc. ; L. fiihocostalis resembles similis, with 

 the costal cell yellowish brown, the wing-apex not infuscated; L. 

 insularis has the wings unmarked, the legs yellowish with the tarsi 

 browned toward the tips. 



Limnophila oslari new species. 



Belongs to the lenta group; body-coloration gray; wings whitish with a 

 distinct oval brown stigma. 



