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ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF KANSAS DIPTERA. 



By F. F. Crevecceur, Onaga, Kan. 



^HE following list of Diptera which have not before been listed 



from the state were all collected by me near my home near 

 Onaga. A number of uniques, and a few undetermined species 

 which are probably undescribed, are not included in this list, but 

 will be reserved until some future time, when I expect to list them 

 along with a lot of Microdiptera which so far I have not taken the 

 trouble to collect. From the number of new species taken the last 

 year or two, and the limited territory over which collecting in this 

 order has been done, it is evident there is much yet to be done in 

 the way of cataloguing the Diptera of the state; so that this list, as 

 well as that of Doctor Snow, published in the Kansas University 

 Science Bulletin, volume II, No. 5, November, 1903, may be con- 

 sidered only a preliminary one. 



Family TlPULlD^. 

 Dicranoptycha sobrina O. S. 



Common on weeds in the timber the latter part of May. 

 Erioptera graphica 0. S. 



Common on weeds in the timber, and also along sloughs, through the 

 month of May. I took several specimens in the house last November 

 and December. 

 Gnophomyia tristissima 0. S. 



Common in sweepings from weeds in heavy timber in May. 

 Pachyrhina punctum Loew. 



A common fly on the prairie, especially on the hills and rougher ground 

 during early summer. 

 Tipula angustipennis Loew, 



Common; taken in the timber and in an orchard on the upland the latter 

 part of April. 

 Tipula trivittata Say. 



Among weeds and bushes along creeks the latter part of August. 



Family CmRONOMiD^. 

 Ceratopogon variipennis Coq. 



This little chironomid is occasionally taken while milking the cows towards 

 evening, when it may be seen forcing its way among the cows' hair 

 to satisfy its thirst for blood. The one specimen in my collection was 

 taken May 29, 1905. 



Family Mycetophilid^. 

 Mycetophila punctata Meig. 



The only specimen I have of this species was found under a board lying 

 on the ground in the dooryard March 27, 1903. 



