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longer than the second, the fourth ^A longer than the third, slender. Body a 

 nearly uniform dark reddish brown. Halteres and legs mostly yellowish trans- 

 parent ; claws stout, strongly curved, the puhilli longer than the claws. 

 Genitalia; basal clasp segment stout, truncate: terminal clasp segment narrowly 

 oval, somewhat swollen distally ; dorsal plate short, the lobes broadly rounded. 

 Harpes heavily chitinized, broadly and roundly emarginate, the broad lobes 

 roundly truncate. Type Cecid 1405. 



This species was taken May 18. 1910, at Hazelton, Pa., by Dr. W. 

 G. Dietz. It is most easily recognized bv the more slender antenn;t 

 and the smaller number of whorls on the fifth antennal segnunt. 



Johnsonorayia cincta, new species. 



I- c male. — Length 5 mm. Antennae with at least 12, and probably 16 seg- 

 ments, presumably nearly as long as the body, thickly haired, yellowish orange, 

 the fifth with a stem ^4 the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which 

 latter has a length nearly 2 J/2 times its diameter, is distinctly constricted near 

 the middle and has broad, scattering subbasal and subapical bands of moder- 

 ately coarse setse. Palpi yellowish, the first segment slender, with a length 

 21/2 times its diameter, the second narrowly oval, a little longer than the first, 

 the third narrowly oval, a little shorter than the second, the fourth slender, 

 somewhat irregular and with a length fully twice that of the third. Eyes 

 large, black, fused. Mesonotum yellowish white, with indistinct magenta 

 reflections. Scutellum yellowish transparent, postscutellum yellowish white. 

 Abdomen reddish yellow, the basal segments somewhat darker dorsally and 

 sparsely clothed with white hairs. Wings subhyaline, with a broad, indistinct, 

 fuscous band across the middle of the wing, particularly marked on the veins ; 

 subcosta from its union with the third to its apex, the crossvein, the third vein 

 to a point opposite the tip of subcosta and a corresponding area on the simple 

 fifth vein being more or less fuscous. Venation nearly as in /. rubra Felt. 

 Halteres yellowish basally, slightly fuscous apically. Coxae pale yellowish : 

 femora light straw ; tibije white basally, the distal fourth pale straw ; tarsi, 

 first segment whitish basally, the distal third pale straw, the second tarsal 

 segment mostly whitish, the distal third pale straw, the third and fourth 

 segments whitish, the fifth variably tinged with yellowish or yellowish brown, 

 especially apically. Claws stout, slightly curved, simple, the pulvilli rudimen- 

 tary. Ovipositor short, the lobes indistinctly triarticulate, the first and second 

 subquadrate, slightly fused, the third roundy triangular and thickly setose. 

 Type Cecid a226o. 



This large and strikingly colored midge was taken on the Polochic 

 River, Guatemala, February 22, 1912, by Messrs. Barber and Schwarz. 



Asynapta americana, new species. 



Male. — Length 1.5 mm. Antennae as long as the body, thickly haired, dark 

 brown : 21 segments, the fifth with a stem J4 the length of the basal enlarge- 

 ment, which latter has a length % greater than its diameter; the subapical 



