1914.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 0H3 



Subfamily CYLlNDUOrOMIX.E. 

 Gcu.13 CYLINDROTOMA Macquurt. 

 1834. Cylindrotoma Macquait; .Suit, a Huffoii, viil. 1, p. 107, 

 Cylindrotoma splendens Doano. 



1000. Ci/lindrolowa splendins Doane; Journal of the New York Ento- 



Miolcitiical Society, vol. 8, p. 197, pi. 8, fig. 21. 

 UlilO. (iilindroloma juiicla Coquillett; Proceedings of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences, vol. 2, p. 401. 

 Doane's type (No. 7.0.")1 V. S. X. :sr.. from Unala.ska, August 24, 

 1897) wa.=; described three months before Coquillett's juncta (No. 

 5,204 r. S. N. M., ViT'^m's Bay, Ahiska, June 2C), 1899) appeared 

 in pre.ss. 

 Cylindrotoma tarsalis .luhnsou. 



1912. Ci/lindrolonia laisijUs .Iohn.son; Psyche, vol. 19, p. 2, fi<;. 4. 



1912. Cylindrotoma (?) anomala Johnson; P.syche, vol. 19, pp. 2, o, fig. 3. 



The two names given above represent one and the same species. 

 I have found this insect connnonly in various parts of Fult(jn 

 County, N. Y. 



Genu... PHALACROCERA Scbiuor. 

 1S63. I'liidiicrncera Schincr; W'ien. Ent. Monatschr., vol. 7, p. 224. 

 Fhalacrocera neoxena sp. n. 



Wings dark-colored: vein h\ persistent at tlie tip as in rrplicala 

 Linna?us. 



Male, length, 11.8-12 nun.; wing, 10.4-11 nun. 



Female, length, 11.8 imu.; wing, 10.9-11.9 nun. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brownish l)lack. .\ntenna! dark brownish 

 black. Head broad, black with a sparse grayish l)loom. 



Pronotiim black with a gray bloom whidi is most intense on the 

 sides of the sclerites. Mesonotal prajscutuni with a pale yellowish 

 gray bloom; four indistinct darker stripes, t!ie meihan pair long, 

 the lateral pair short and broad: scutum, scutellum and postnotum 

 with a pale grayish white bloom. Pleura^ black with a gray bloom 

 which leaves patches of the ground color at intervals. Halteres 

 long, brown. Legs, coxa* grey, trochanters and femora yellowish 

 brown, brown at the ti]). tibia' light brown, darker brown at the tip, 

 tarsi dark l)rown. Wings with a brown suffusion; stigma prominent, 

 oval, brown; veins dark brown; venation (PI. XXV, fig. 10): Rs 

 very long, almost straight; cross-vein r short; Ri beyond r persistent 

 as in replicata, not atrophied as in lipulina; cross-vein r-m present 

 as a short vein or else lost by the slight fusion of R^^i on iV,+:,- cell 

 1st M-. large, arcuated at the base. 



Abdominal tergites brown with a dark brownish black median 



