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tion of Ml+2; basal deflection of Cul far before the fork of M, this distance about 

 equal to the basal deflection of Atl+2. 



Abdomen dark brown, the posterior margins of the segments broadly silvery. 



Ihihilal. — Newfoundland. 



Holotype, 9, Spruce Brook, August 8-12, 1912 (G. H. Englehardt), (No. F3192). 



Allotopotype, 3. 



Paratopotype, 9- 



Type in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History. 



Dicranomyia lerra-novir differs conspicuously from all the described American 

 species of the genus. Its vicarious Palacarctic representative is D. decora (Staeger) 

 of Northern Europe. Superficially it bears a marked resemblance to Geranomyia 

 rostrata (Say), from which the structure of the mouth-parts and the slightly different 

 venation will separate it. 



Genus Flliptera Schiner. 

 Eltiplera illini, sp. n. 



General coloration brown, the pleura yellowish; cell Isl M2 open. 



Female. — Length about 5 mm. ; wing, 6 mm. 



Rostrum pale brown, the palpi dark brown. Antenna with the scapal segments 

 pale yellowish, the flagellum black; flagellar segments oval with a sparse white 

 pubescence and verticils that are a little shorter than the segments. Head dark 

 brownish black. 



Thorax dull yellow, the thoracic dorsum with the stripes brown and entirely con- 

 fluent, shiny, only the lateral margins of the prxscutum yellowish. Halteres dark 

 brown, the base of the stem more yellowish. Legs with the coxas and trochanters dull 

 yellow; remainder of the legs brown, the base of the femora paler. Wings gray, the 

 stigma indistinct; veins dark brown. Venation: Sc rather short, ending about opposite 

 two-thirds the length of the long sector; Sc2 proximad of the origin of the sector, the 

 distance about equal to the basal deflection of Cul ; basal deflection of R-/+5 almost 

 square and in one wing of the type strongly spurred at the angle; cell Isl M2 open by 

 the atrophy of the outer deflection of Mi, Afl-\-2 before m about one-half that beyond 

 this cross-vein; basal deflection of Cul just before the fork of M. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, the sicrnites yellowish. 



Habitat. — Illinois. 



Holotype, 9, Makanda, Jackson County, June 4, 1919 (Alexander). 



Type in the collection of the HIinois State Natural History Survey. 



The unique type of F.lliplera illini was found in the "Ozark" region of Illinois 

 while Mr. Malloch and the writer were engaged in an entomological survey of this 

 section. The genus Elliptera was hitherto represented by two species from Europe 

 and two species from North America west of the Rockies. The occurrence of the 

 genus east of the Mississippi River was quite unexpected and breaks the hitherto dis- 

 continuous distribution of this curious genus of crane-flies. The present species differs 

 from its American relatives in the open cell Ijt M2, a character possessed by both of 

 the European forms. 



