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Tipula angustipennis Lw. Colorado, Denver; April. 



bella Lw. Kansas, Lawrence; July; September. New to the Kan- 

 sas list. 



bicornis Lw. Kansas, Lawrence; May. New to the Kansas list. 



inermis Doane. Kansas, Lawrence; May, at night, and attracted by 

 l^ht in house; June, at night. New to the Kansas list. 



Family Chironomid^. 

 (Prof. O. A. Johannsen has not only given great help in the specific de- 

 terminations, but has named and described new species from specimens col- 

 lected by me. His system of arrangement and nomenclature is followed.) 

 Culicoides (Ceratopogon) guttipennis Coq. Kansas, Lawrence; May. This 

 name determined as "probably, specimen defective." New to the Kan- 

 sas Hst. 

 Bezzia elegantula Joh. (Described in K. U. Sci. Bull., vol. IV, p. 109.) 

 Kansas, Lawrence; July, at electric hght on bridge across Kansas river 

 (type). Addition to the Kansas list. 

 Tanypus (Ablabesmyia) aureus Joh. ( K. U. Sci. Bull. , vol. IV, p. 110. ) Kan- 

 sas, Lawrence; July, at electric light on bridge 

 across Kansas river (type). Addition to the Kan- 

 sas list, 

 monilis L. Kansas, Lawrence; July, at electric light 

 on Kansas river bridge. 

 Chironomus aberrans Joh. Kansas, Lawrence; July. New to the Kansas 

 list, 

 flaviventris Joh. (K. U. Sci. Bull., vol. IV, p. 111.) Kansas, 

 Lawrence; July, at electric light on bridge across Kansas 

 river (types). Addition to the Kansas list, 

 halteralis Coq. Kansas, Lawrence; April, at night, 

 lucifer Joh. (K. U. Sci. Bull., vol. IV, p. 110.) Kansas, Law- 

 rence; July, taken at electric light on bridge across Kansas 

 river (types). Addition to the Kansas list, 

 needhamii Joh. (N. Y. State Mus. Bull., 124. p. 278). New 

 name for species listed as C. scalsenus Schrank, var., in 

 Trans. Kan. Acad. Sci. , vol. XX, pt. II, p. 197, and inK U. Sci. 

 Bull., vol. IV, p. 86. Being merely a change of names, no 

 addition is made to the Kansas list. Kansas, Lawrence; 

 June, twilight (metatype). 

 nigricans Joh. Colorado, Denver; August, 

 riparius Meig. "Defective specimen, but probably this spe- 

 cies," according to Professor Johannsen. Colorado, Taber- 

 nash; August, 

 similis Joh. Professor Johannsen reported on this as "Defect- 

 ive specimen, may be same as similis." Colorado, Taber- 

 nash; August. 

 Camptocladius (Chironomus) aterrimus Meig. Kansas, Lawrence; July, 



twilight. New to the Kansas list. 

 Psectrocladius aureus Joh. (N. Y. State Mus. Bull., 124, p. 283.) Kansas, 

 Lawrence; July (type). Addition to the Kansas list. 



