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swept fiom rank vi'Kettition at Sacanckiga Park, Fulton Co., N. Y., 

 Jnni' I, lOM. Tln-i't.' iVniales taken in Sininion's woods, Glovers- 

 villi', X. v., June 3, 1914, in company with a cranefly fauna that is 

 quite eharacteristic of northern woocUands that support a rich 

 Canadian flora. {Dicranoinijia pubipcnnis, Rhyphulophus rubcUus, 

 Erioptcra stigniatica, Adelphomyia minuUi, Limnophila rufibasis, 

 L. nrcolata, Rliapliidolabis flaveola, Triajplwna calcar, etc.) 



Subgenus EPHELI.\ Scliiner. 

 1803. Ephclia Schiner; Wien. Entomol. Monal^chr., vol. ", i>. 222. 

 Limnophila (Ephelia) johnsoni sp n. 



Color yellow: wing-< hyaline, unmarked; a supernumerary cross- 

 vein in cell M. 



Male, length, I mm.; winy,. 0.1 mm. 

 Female, length. 7.2 mm.; wing, 8.0 mm. 



Rostrum pale brownish yellow: palpi and antennfc very pale 

 yellowish, brown. Head yellow with a pale bloom, eyes conspicu- 

 ously contrasting, black. 



Pronotum pale yellow. Mesonotal pru-scutum pale yellow with 

 four broad indistinct darker stripes, of which the median pair are 

 the longest; scutum, scutellum and postnotum liglit yellow with 

 a sparse pale gray bloom. Pleura; yellowish. Halteres pale yellow. 

 Legs yellow, the tibiiB and tarsi a little suffused with brown. Wings 

 pale yellow, the veins pale; venation (PI. XX\', fig. 2): Rs rather 

 long, angulated at base, in a line with the deflection of R-.,,.; cross-vein 

 r not distinct; basal deflection of ft.+5 and M,.-. strongly arcuated 

 and in a line; a strong supernumerary cross-vein in cell M. 

 Abdomen very light brownish yellow. 



Holotype, <?, Mountain Lake, Fulton Co., X. Y., alt. 1,.")90 feet, 

 June 17, 1914 (.C. P. .Vlexander). 



.\llotype, 9 , Bretton Woods, N. H., June 23, 1913 (C. W. Johnson). 

 This interesting new species is named in honor of the well-known 

 dipterologist, Mr. Charles W. Johnson, who collected the allotype. 

 The only other species of Ephelia in America are aprilina 0. S. and 

 superlineala Doane which have the wings heavily spotted with 

 brown. 



Subgenus D.\CTYLOL.\BIS Ostcn .Sackcn. 

 Is.V.). I)<ieli/loM)U Ostcn Sacken; Proc. Acad. Xat. .^ci. Pliila., p. 240. 

 Limnophila (Daotylolabis^ hortensia sp- n. 



Wings subhyaline: color gray, hypopygimn reddish. 

 Male, length, about 8 mm.; wing, 8.8 mm. 

 Female, length, 7.8-8.4 mm.; wing, 8.4-8.8 mm. 



