March, i9i8.] StURTEVANT : ACALYPTER.E COLLECTED IN ALABAMA. 39 



brown, palpi dark brown, large. Cheeks brown; their greatest width about 

 one third greatest diameter of eyes. Eyes with short pile. 



Acrostichal hairs in 6 rows ; no prescutellars. Mesonotum dull brown ; 

 humeri, median stripe, pair of stripes in dorsocentral rows, and posterior pair 

 of stripes outside the latter and joining them at the suture, grayish. Scutel- 

 lum brown, with grayish border. Pleurae dull brown. Legs yellowish brown. 

 Apical and preapical bristles on first and second tibiae, preapicals on third. 



Abdomen dark dull brown. 



Wings clear. Costal index about 2.^, fourth vein index about 2.3, 5X 

 index about 2.0, 4C index about 1.3. 



Length body 2^4 mm., wings 2^^ mm. 



Holotype: Kushla, Ala., April 9. 1915. Deposited in the Ameri- 

 can Mttseum of Natural History. 

 Scaptomyza adusta Loew. Kushla, Gulf crest. 

 S. graminum Fall. Kushla. 



Ephydrid.^. 



Mosillus aeneus Fall. Kushla. 

 Paralimna appendiculata Loew. Kushla, Saraland. 

 Ochthera mantis deGeer. Gulfcrest, Kushla, Saraland. 

 0. tuberculata Loew. Kushla, Saraland, Mobile. 

 Parydra quadrituberculata Loew. Kushla. 



There are a number of other Ephydridse in the collection, not yet 

 identified. 



Chloropid.e. 



Elliponeura debilis Loew. Kushla. 

 Chloropisca glabra ]\Ieig. (assiiiiilis ISIacq.). Kushla. 

 Diplotoxa microcera Loew. Kushla. 



D. versicolor Loew. Gulfcrest, Kushla, Saraland, Coden. 

 Ceratobarys eulophus Loew. Kushla. 

 Elachiptera costata Loew. Kushla. 

 Melanochaeta longula Loew. Kushla. 

 M. nigricornis Loew. Kushla. Mobile. 

 Hippelates flavipes pusio Loew. Kushla. 

 H. subvittatus Malloch. Kushla, Saraland. 



H, texanus Malloch. Gulfcrest. Kushla, Saraland, Springhill, Mo- 

 bile, Coden. 

 Siphonella cinerea Loew. Springhill. 

 Tricimba (Notonaulax) cincta Meig. Kushla. 



