',M){') CONNECTICI T GEOL. AXD XAT. HIST. SURVEY [Bull. 



preceded by a clearer yellow rino-; subteriniiial brown ring lacking or 

 barely indicated. Wings Avitli three major brown areas in cell B 

 with additional paler brown marginal and submarginal clouds : stigma 

 brown, the ])ale central spot very reduced. In cases, with one or two 

 smaller brown spots in cell E, near the arciilar darkening. Abdominal 

 tergites biownish yellow, the bases of segments clearer yellow. Male 

 hypopygium (Fig. 34, L) : dististyles fused except at tips; gona- 

 pophyses slender, tips spiculose, without hair-tufts. 6. L. 7.5-8 

 mm. : w. 8 - 9 mm. $ . L. 9.5 - 10 mm. ' w. 8.5- 9 mm. 



(Late July-Aug.) Mass.. Ct., N. Y. ; open gorges, bog margins. 



Connecticut. — Manitic Lake, Aug. 6, 1929 (C. P. A.). 



L. {Limo7iia) parietina (O. S.) (Fig. 34, ]\I). 



18G1. LimMohia parietina Osten Sacken: Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1861:289. 



Fig.— Alexander. Cfls. N. Y.. 1, pi. 2,2, fig. 30 (wing) ; 1919. 



]Mesonotum yellow pollinose, the praescutum with thi-ee brown 

 stripes, the median one sometimes weakly bifid ; pleura and sternum 

 extensively blackened. Antennae pale basally, flagellum darker. Male 

 hypopygium (Fio-. 84. M) with the dististyle small. $. L. 13-15 

 mm.: w. 15-19 mm. 9. L. 16-18 mm.; w. 16-18 mm. 



(Late Aug.-Sept.) Ont., Me., N. H., Vt., Mass., Q., N. Y., Pa., westw. to Mich, 

 and 111., southw. to N. C. ; near wooded cliffs. 



Connecticut.— Hartland, Sept. 11, 1928 (G. C. C.) ; Norfolk, Sept. 12, 1928 (G. C. C). 



L. {Limonia) rara (O. S.) (Fig. 34, N). 



1869. Dicranowi/ta rara Osten Sacken; ]Mon. Dipt. N". Amer.. 



4:75-76.' 



Figs.— Alexander, Cfls. N. Y., 1, pi. 31, fig. 25 (wing) ; 1919. Dickinson, 

 Cfls. Wise, p. 185, fig. 58 (wing) ; 1932. 



Mesonotum shiny obscure yellow; praescutum with three darker 

 stfipes; dorsal pleurites dark brown; sternopleurite more yellow on 

 dorsal portion; scutellum and postnotum black. Front silvery; re- 

 mainder of head, including antennae, black. Halteres dark brown. 

 Wings brownish, with three darker brown areas, placed at origin ^.s-, 

 fork >S'c, and at stigma, the latter extensively surrounded bv light 

 yellow ; narrow brown seams along cord and outer end cell 1st M^ ; Rs 

 angulated at origin. Male hypopygium (Fig. 34. N) : dorsal dis- 

 tistyle present; ventral dististyle with two pale rostral spines: a small 

 tubercle near base of style, bearing two very long .setae : mesal lobe of 

 basi-style bearing an additional small lobule on face, i . L. 5.5-7 

 mm.; w. 7-9 mm. $, L. 6-6.5 mm.: w. 7-7.5 mm. 



(May-July; Aug.-Sept.) N. Y., N. J., Pa.. Md., westw. to 111., Wise, and la., 

 southw. to Ga. and c. Fla. 



