Xo. 64] DIPTERA OF CONNECTICTT : TAXOXO^VIY 335 



A. {Antocha) opalizans O. S. (Fi«r. 39. B). 



1S59. Antocha opalizans Osten Sacken; Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phil- 

 adelphia, 1859 : 220. 



Figs. — Osten Sacken, Mon. Dipt. N. Amer., 4, pi. 1, fig. 11 (wing) ; 1869. 

 Snodgrass, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 30, pi. 8, figs. 5, 8, 11 (hyp.) ; 1904. Needhani. 

 23rd Rept. N. Y. St. Ent. for 1907, pi. 29, fig. 4 (ven.) : 1908. Dickinson, CH.- 

 Wise. p. 189. fig. 68 (wing) ; 1932. 



General coloration ochreous; praesciituin with a hioad niediaii and 

 narrow incomplete lateral brown .stripes. Knobs of halteres weakly 

 darkened. Wings opalescent, milky-white, brighter at base. Ab- 

 domen dark broAvn; hypopygium ob.scure yellow. Male hypopygiinii 

 (Fig. 39, B). $. L. 4-5"nun.; w. 4.5-6 mm. 9. L. 4.5-6 nnn.; w, 

 5-6 mm. 



<Mav-Sept.) Que., Me.. N. H., Vt., Mass., N. Y., westw. to 111. anrl \\'isc.. scuthw. 

 to N. C, S. C. and Tenn. 



Connecticut.— Cornwall Bridge, June 13, 1931 (C. P. A.) ; Kent Falls, June 12- 

 13, Julv 23-24, 1931 (C. P. A.); Middletown, May 26, 1929 (R. C. N.); Norfolk. 

 May 31, Julv 24, 1931 (C. P. A.): Riverton, June 8, 1929, June 12, 1931 (C. P. A.); 

 Union, May 27, 1922 (\V. E. B.). 



A. (.4/?/or/uO saxicola O. S. (Figs. 38, C; 39, C). 

 1859. Antocha. sa.ikola Osten Sacken ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci, Philadel- 

 phia, 1859 : 219. 



Figs.— Osten Sacken, Mon. Dipt. N. Amer., 4, pi. 3, fig. 10 (hvp.) : 1869. 

 Alexander. Cfls. N. Y., 1, pi. 2,i, fig. 48 (ven.) ; 1919. 



General coloration gray or brownish gray to ochreous, the prae- 

 scutmn with clearer brown stripes, the median one bifid at posterior 

 end. Male hypopyginm (Fig. 39, C). i. L. 4-6 mm.: w. 5-7 mm. 

 ? . L. 4.5-5.5 mm. ; w. 5-6 mm. 



(May-Sept.) Que.. Out.. N. S., N. H., Vt., Mass.. N. Y.. Pa., westw. to Midi, and 

 Mo., southw. to Ga. 



Connecticut.— Danburv, June 15, 1909 (C. W.J.); Kent Falls, Sept. 11, 1929 (A.J. 

 W.): Riverton, June 12, 1931 (C. P. A.). Salisbury, July 16, 1926 (W. E. B.); 

 Southington, May 28, 1920 (R. B. F.) ; Winnipauk, June 16, 1909 (C. W.J.). 



4. Subtribe Elliiteraijia 

 Eiliptera Schin, 

 1863. Eiliptera Schiner: AVien. Ent. Monatschr., 7:222. 



A small genus (nine species) of Holarctic crane-flies, occurring 

 discontinuously in the eastern and Avestern Palaearctic and Xearctic 

 regions. The flies favor the vicinity of waterfalls and small stream- 

 lets dripping and percolating down the faces of vertical^ clitfs. the 

 adults resting on the clilf face and on nearby vegetation. The larvae 

 live in the algal growth in this habitat (see Rogers, Occas. Papers 

 Mns. Zool., Univ. Mich., 215 : 25-27; 1930). ^ The fly described as Elhp- 

 tera ale.vanderi Johnson is a Gonomyia (Lipophleps), q. v. 



