\'o]. xxiv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 176 



A New Species of Dixa from Chile (Dixidae, Dipt.)- 



By Charles P. Alexander, Ithaca, N. Y.* 

 In a collection of Neotropical crane-flies belonging to the 

 Hungarian National Museum and kindly sent to me for deter- 

 mination by Dr. Kertesz, there was included a species of Dixa 

 from Chile. This is the first record for a member of this 

 family of flies from south of the Equator. Of the 21 described 

 species, 12 are European, 8 are American and i is Chinese. Of 

 the American species all are Nearctic with the exception of 

 the widely distributed Di-i-a clavulus Willistonj which was de- 

 scribed from the Island of St. Vincent. Dr. Johannsen has 

 examined this specimen and states that it is very diiTerent from 



*Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 

 tTrans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1896. Part 3, p. 298, fig. 73. 



