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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOI.OOIST. %'&<> 



NEW SPECIES OF FURCOMYIA ( T/FULID.E). 



MY CHAS. P. ALEXANDER, ITHACA, N. Y.' 



Tlie crane-flies herein characterized as new are, with one exception. 

 Neotropical forms. There have been described by previous writers 15 

 species of Soutii American Limnobini that I have no hesitation in referring 

 to the genus Furcomyia { = Dicranomyia oi authors). With the single 

 exception oi F. muscosn End. (Ecuador), the forms are Chili.m or Pdta- 

 gonian, and are species named by Macquirt,' Blanchard,' Phihppi' and 

 Bigot.' No species have been mentioned from the various countries of 

 Middle America, and it is probably because of this fact that so many of 

 the forms received proved to be novelties. 



The material included is the property of Eastern Museums, as follows ; 

 U. S. National Museum, received through Mr. Frederick Knab, and the 

 .\nierican Museum of Natural History, received through Mr. J. A. 

 (irossbeck. I express my sincere gratitude to both of these gentlemen 

 for their kind help in this respect. 



A Key to the spotted wiii'^ed Furcomyicr. 

 (South America (northern portion), Central America and the Antilles.) 



1. So short, ending before, or opposite, or only slightly beyond, the 



origin of Rs 2. 



Sc long, ending far beyond the origin of Rs 5. 



2. \Ving-marking abundant, forming a network 3. 



Wing-marking scanty, confined to the neighbourhood of veins 4. 



3. Legs with the femora uniform brown apically ; wing pattern 



regular reticulata, sp. n. 



(Cuba) 

 Legs witli the femora yellowish apically with a broad gray subajiical 



ring ; wing pattern irregular muscosa Kiulerl. 



(Ecuador) 



4. Legs black, a reddish annulus far before the tip of tlie femur ; no 



supernumerary cross-vein in cell R.-, ; seam on cord of wing, dark 



brown, narrow ; antennse dark except at base osterhouti, sp. n. 



(Panama) 



1. Contribution ftoni the Entomological Laboratory, Cornell University. 



2. Macquart, Pierre Justin; Dipt. Exot., \'ol. I, pt. 1, p. 72 (1838). 



3. Blanchard, Emilc; in Hisloria fisica y polilica clc Chili Zoologia, Tome 7, 

 pp. 337-344, esp. pp. 340-343 ( 1S.')2). 



4. Philippi, Rodolto; \irhaiul. zool-bot. gesells. Wien., Vol. 15, pp. 507, 

 598, 602-G17, 780, 781; csp. (J12-C.14 (1805). 



5. Bigot, Jacques; Mission Scientifiquc du Cap Horn, 1882-1883; Tome 0, 

 2nd part, pp. 5-10; csp. pp. S, 0, pi. 2, fig. 2 (ISSS). 



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