No. 64] DIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT : TAXONOMY 187 



basitarsus and extreme base of fourth segment. Abdomen elono-ate. 

 $. L. 8-10 mm.; w. 6.5-7 mm.; antenna, 6-6.5 mm. 2. L. 9-10 

 mm. ; w. 7 - 8 mm. 



(May-early Sept.) N. B., Me., N. H., Vt., Mass., R. 1., N. Y., Pa., westw. to Mich., 

 southw. to Va., N. C, and S. C. (Canadian). 



Connecticut.— Kent Falls, July 23-24, 1931 (C. P. A.); Riverton, July 23, 1931 

 (CP.A.); Saptree Run State Park, June 14, 1933 (C. P. A.). 



Bittacomorpha Westwood 



1835. Bittacomorpha Westwood; London & Edinburgh Phil. Mag., 

 6 : 281. 



The common "phantom cranefly" may be easily recognized by 

 the black and white banded legs and conspicuously swollen basitarsi. 

 The adults are very characteristic of swales, sloughs and similar 

 swampy areas, in the rich organic mud of which the early stages may 

 be found. 



Bittacomorpha clavipes (Fabr.) (Fig. 19, B). 

 1781. Tipula clavipes Fabricius; Spec. Ins., 2: 404. 

 lyUu. Ptyohoptera clavipes Fabricius; tSyst. Antl., p. 22. 

 1835. Bittacomorpha clavipes Westwood ; ibid., 6 : 281. 



Figs. — Osten Sacken, Mon. Dipt. N. Amen, 4, pi. 2, fig. 20 (wing) ; pi. 4, 

 fig. 31 (hyp.) ; 1869. Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1881, pi. 19, fig. 12 

 (ven., head) ; 1881. Snodgrass, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 30, pi. 10, figs. 35-39 

 (hvp.) ; 1904. Needham, 23rd Rept. N. Y. St. Ent. for 1907, pi. 15. fig. 3 (ven.) ; 

 1908. Williston, Man. N. Amer. Dipt., Ed. 3, p. 84, fig. 25, sub. 12 (ven.) ; 1908. 

 Alexander, Cfls. N. Y., 1 : 862, fig. B (ven.) ; pi. 30, fig. 3 (wing) ; 1919. Cramp- 

 ton, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 48, pi. 10, fig. iZ (hyp.) ; 1923. Alexander, Gen. 

 Ins., 188, fig. 9 (leg) ; fig. 15 (wing) ; 1927. Crampton, Ent. News, 2,7, pi. 3, fig. 6 

 (thorax); 1926. Cole, Proc Calif. Acad. Sci. (4) 16:461, figs. 14, 17 (hyp.); 

 1927. Crampton, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 39, pi. 20 (basal abdom. segs.) ; 1931. 

 Dickinson, Cfls. Wise, p. 174, fig. 44 (ven.) ; 1932. 



Antennae relatively long. Color of mesonotum black, the iDoste- 

 rior sclerites silvery; praescutum with a capillary median line of this 

 color. Pleura silvery. Legs black, banded with white, the latter in- 

 cluding narrow rings on basal fourth of tibiae, proximal fourth of 

 basitarsi, and all of tarsal segments two and three. ^ . L. 10-14 mm. ; 

 w. 5.5-8 mm.; antenna, about 4.5-5 mm. ?. L. 12-15 mm.; w. 

 8 - 9 mm. 



(May-Sept.) Ont., Que., N. B., N. S., Me., N. H., Vt., Mass., R. I., N. Y., N. J., 

 Pa., westw. to Man., Col. and Utah, southw. to S. C, Ga., Tenn. and Fla. 



Connecticut.— Branford, Aug. 24, 1904 (P. L. B.) ; E. Conn., May 13-Sept. 6 

 (C.W.J.): E. Hartland, Sept. 11, 1928 (C. P. A.); E. Rock Park, New Haven, 

 May 20, 1904 (B. H.W.); Granby, June 8, 1929 (C. P.A.); New Haven, Aug. 20, 

 1928 (G. B.); Norfolk, Sept. 12, 1928 (C. P.A.); Sahsbury, Sept. 12, 1928 

 (C. P.A.); Saptree Run State Park, June 14, 1933 (C. P.A.); Storrs, Alay 1929 

 (H.W. C); Twin Lakes, Sept. 12. 1928 (C. P.A.); Waterbury, May 28, 1908 

 (W.E. B.); W. Granby, Sept. 11, 1928 (C. P.A.); Woodmont, July 10, 1904 

 (P.L.B.). 



