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hairs many of which are encircled by a dark brown spot producing a dotted 
appearance which is especially noticeable before the pseudosutural fovese ; 
scutum clear, light gray with live brown lines, the outermost pair very broad, 
dark brown, continuations of the lateral prsescutal vitta ; inside these stripes 
a pair of narrow lighter brown stripes ; a delicate median brown vitta con- 
tinued backward from the middle praescutal stripe; scutellum gray with 
numerous long pale hairs which are surrounded by indistinct brown spots ; 
postnotum gray, the sides dark brown. Pleura clear light gray, indistinctly 
and delicately lined and dotted with pale brown. Halteres short, pale, the 
knob brownish just before the apex. Legs with the coxx gray ; trochanters 
dull yellow ; femora dull yellow, their apices dark brownish black ; tibia; dull 
yellow, the apices narrowly black ; tarsal segments one and two brown, nar- 
rowly tipped with black ; remainder of the tarsi black ; legs hairy. Wings 
hyaline or nearly so, the costal cell dark brown ; a yellowish spot before the 
arculus and before the radial cross-vein ; brown markings as follows : a large 
blotch beyond the arculus; at the origin of Rs ; at the end of the sector con- 
tinuing down to the cell ist M.; apex of the wings in cells 2d R^ and Rn', 
grayish brown seams on the crossveins and deflections of veins ; a grayish 
brown cloud in cell Cu continuing down into the tip of cell ist A; pale gray 
clouds in the middles of the other cells of the wings. Venation as in plate 
I, fig. 2; Sc^ ending just beyond the base of cell i?, ; crossvein r not far from 
the tip of i?i; R.+s shorter than the deflection of i^^+s ; cell ist M. hexagonal; 
M,+2 beyond m about equal to the basal deflection of Cui ; basal deflection of 
Cn, only a little longer than the prominent downward deflection of M3. 
Abdominal tergites with the first segment dark brown; remaining tergites 
light gray with a salmon caste; a broad dorso-median dark brown line; lateral 
margins indistinctly pale; a narrow sublateral brown line; the entire surface 
is densely spotted with prominent brown setigerous punctures; sternites pale 
grayish brown with an indistinct narrow dark brown median line and impressed 
lines on each segment forming an irregular quadrate figure; the surface with 
abundant brown setigerous punctures; caudal margins of the sclerites silvery. 
Habitat. — Eastern United States. 
Holotype, J, Framington, Connecticut; Jtine 7, 1914; Dr. R. W. 
Marchand. 
The type is in the collection of the Boston Society of Natural 
History. 
This interesting crane-fly is closely allied to L. alleni Johnson, (see 
plate VIII, fig. I ) from which it may be separated by the appended 
key. It is curious that there should be two such striking Limno- 
philas found in the eastern states and overlooked by collectors until 
within the last few years. This fly was handed to me for descrip- 
tion by Mr, Johnson, to whom I am indebted for many other kind- 
nesses and at his suggestion I dedicate the species to the collector, 
